We've been living on our farm since January 2002 and imagine turning our
beloved home into a community farm so we could share our work here with friends, nurturing
and being nurtured by our relationship with the land, with Nature.
We have the vision of creating a lovely community with all the homes that surround our farm.
All of the land and farms around us are going to come up for sale in the next few years and
some are already on the market. We prefer people who have a biodynamic background or are
familiar with Rudolf Steiner's work, though this isn't required if you have a kind heart
and love of nature. We're keen on people who work in the healing professions. Mostly we
want goodhearted people who are eager to care for and grow this community together. We see
us all pitching in to share gardens and animal raising chores, regularly having meals together
and doing what good friends do in community.
We have come to do this out of realizing how blessed we are to live in this home and on this land.
Daily we are present to the kindness the animals and the land show us and we are humbled
in the presence of their generosity. We continually become better people for having lived here.
We imagine a small community of intelligent people intent on helping all of us together grow
into better human beings, a fuller expression of all we can be.
ABOUT THE FARM AND OUR VILLAGE
Our farm has been organic since it was settled 95 years ago. In 2006 we
became biodynamic and in 2008 obtained our certification as Naturally Grown.
Our tiny village (pop. 2,000) has a general store, two room church and a historic one room
schoolhouse that is our community center. The farm is nestled in a valley of rolling hills.
The road ends a half mile east of us. Beyond is the state forest (no roads) and the Cascade
Mountains. Even though we're very rural, drive time into Portland is about 35 minutes.
Many of our neighbors commute to town and say they enjoy coming home at night
to their rural home with hooting night owls.
Quiet woods where owls and flickers live, where deer birth fawns each spring. The rest is
new and old orchards; vegetable, berry, herb and flower gardens and pasture. Exceptionally
good water from our well.
We grow heirloom apples, pear, peach, apricot, grapes, cherry, fig, kiwi, goji, aronia and
hazelnut trees; some mature, some still young. We have cows, goats, free range
chickens, seasonal turkeys, honeybees, expansive gardens and a year round growing climate
with a mild winter. Our barn is on the historic register. Friendly neighbors and a wide
Milky Way at night. It's a lovely place to live.
We are most interested in finding like-minded, goodhearted people as we grow the farm
in ways that best serve the land and this vision of a helpful and committed community of
good people working together. If you feel our vision matches yours, speak with us and let's
see where this journey takes us.
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Our Farm Animals
a dairy cow and her upcoming heifer (our next milk cow), dairy goats, chickens for eggs and meat,
seasonal turkeys, honeybees, beef cows on other leased land.
Fruits, nuts and vegetables
Tree fruit -- 25 mature and young heirloom apple trees. Also pears, peaches, plums,
grape arbors, cherries, crabapples
Berries -- raspberry, blueberry, blackberry, marionberry, aronia, strawberries
Nuts -- gingko, chestnut, hazelnut, sunflowers
Garden -- tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, eggplant, onions, carrots, potatoes, lettuce
and salad greens, kale, chard, broccoli, beans, peas, melons (in hot summers), radish, corn, peppers.
Herbs -- rosemary, oregano, sage, lavender, marjoram, lovage, fennel, 7 kinds of mint, hops,
borage, echinacea, yarrow, valerian, clovers, horseradish, thyme, cilantro, chives, cleavers,
comfrey
Flowers & flowering trees
Heirloom roses, peonies, bearded irises, hollyhock, foxglove, honeysuckle, clematis, many perennials
and self-seeding annuals, butterfly bush, spirea, golden chain, wisteria, laurel, dogwood, large-leaf
maples, many lilac varieties, alder and elderberry.
Current residents
Joseph & Jacqueline Freeman, two farm cats and a friendly dog.
Interested? Make an inquiry to us by email and tell us about yourself. We'll put you in touch with
our neighbors so you can see what they are selling.
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