Now: Seven acres, surrounded by 670 acres of state park. Breathtaking views from 70-foot cliffs. Rolling wooded meadows. Fruit trees, grape vines, vegetable gardens, a bonsai nursery. Two houses and a great old heavy-timbered barn. All in southwest Portland.

Planned:

With your help: This unique resource becomes permanently accessible as an open common demonstrating how multiple communities can efficiently live, work, and play in urban density while learning to heal the land, cooperate with each other, and change the world.

The land becomes a demonstration permaculture farm in which visitors learn how to:

• restore native plants and wildlife habitat,
• retain and bioremediate runoff that otherwise pollutes the watershed,
• construct natural buildings using earthen materials,
• turn lawns into edible landscape,
• and retrofit existing structures using green building techniques.

Finally, we employ transportation alternatives such as public buses, bicycles, and shuttles to ensure that we move towards fossil fuel free sustainability while reducing traffic on overburdened local roads.