Cedar Moon

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About the Community

  • Established
  • Urban

What we do

Cedar Moon is a community dedicated to growing movement for healing and resilience in the world.

We are co-stewards with Tryon Life Community Farm and the Sacred Land Alliance of seven beautiful half-wooded acres surrounded by a 650-acre forest, all inside Portland on a bus line half an hour by bicycle from downtown. (TLC Farm is a separate and independent nonprofit sustainability education and demonstration center–see www.tryonfarm.org. The SLA is a POC and trans collective focused on making the land available to marginalized people who have less access to land.) We are blessed with the opportunity for the work of our relations with each other and the earth to be shared with thousands of visitors. As we learn the skills and practices of growing respect, responsibility, and joy, they resonate out through our communities.

In this way, we’re becoming ancestors of an earth people that navigate the coming tumult with spirit and courage.

We were born in fire. Our evolution on this land between 2004 and 2006 was galvanized by the campaign to prevent the land we occupy from being bulldozed for a high-impact housing development. We have faced the stresses, conflicts, and tensions this high-pressure environment caused, as well as the “standard” ones all communities face, and have developed a clear focus on community process to deal with them.

It is a lot of work to live here. Members pay the equivalent of market-rate rent, and are expected to contribute at least ten hours to the community’s economic work every week, and volunteer with TLC Farm (many do more). We have weekly meetings, alternating between business “meetings of the minds” and relation-building “meetings of the hearts.” We share evening meals and rotate cooking, cleaning, and maintenance chores. We encourage low-impact density and so have relatively little individual space (though a great deal of shared, communal space).

And yet the rewards are tremendous. We live deeply interwoven with all our relations. We encourage each other to discover our evolving niches in the ecology of change: political action, deep spirit, earth-rooted wisdom. We reduce our ecological footprint, learn the resonance between autonomy and cooperation, grow into wisdom and compassion, and jam rhythms and harmonies and sutras into the long, warm evenings.

Members are encouraged to use alternate forms of transportation (we have a car co-op), minimize energy use (no central heating), and eat local, organic, unrefined food. Our regular community ceremonies (from circles around dinner to high holidays) reflect our eclectic backgrounds, but are earth-based and heart-felt.

If your soul yearns to work closely with others in an integrated lifestyle catalyzing the emergence of a new world in the shell of the old, contact us!

Our Vision

Becoming ancestors of earth people that navigate the coming tumult with spirit and courage.

Our Mission

Becoming ancestors of earth people that navigate the coming tumult with spirit and courage.

  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Activities
  • Education
  • Services Business
  • 21 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
Total
21

How to join

We are currently actively seeking applicants. Please email us with an intro to yourself, after which one of us will email you back. If it seems like a potential fit with current needs, we’ll ask you to fill out a questionnaire; and then we will have interviews, dinners together, and other opportunities to come to consensus to join!

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Please note the distinction between TLC Farm (the nonprofit education center) and Cedar Moon. To visit the demonstration projects and/or schedule a tour of the land, see www.tryonfarm.org for drop-in and contact information. If you’d like to consider joining Cedar Moon or living here temporarily, please contact us directly and tell us why you’re interested, how long you’d like to stay, and when.

Primary decision-making authority

  • All Community Members Together

The whole membership decides collectively.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Economic model

  • Partial Income-Sharing

Members contribute a percentage of income to community funds.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • There is a labor obligation

Additional economic information

Monthly fees/dues: $600
Labor required: 12 hours/week
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes
We also have community cottage industries.

Members contribute a variable amount for room space, depending on size and amenities of private space; this ranges from about $200 to about $350 per person, most of which goes to mortgage and maintenance payments. Members also split utilities (~$100/mo) and food costs (~$230/mo).

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Common House, Garden(s), Greenhouse(s), Vehicle Share, Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Hot tub or hot springs, Outdoor Kitchen, Stage or Auditorium, Fire pit, Swingsets & play areas, Internet

Frequency of communal meals

  • Approximately 1 meal per day

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies
  • Religions
  • Buddhist
  • Jewish
  • Hindu
  • Native
  • Wiccan, Paganism, or Earth Religions

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a Land Trust, Home Owners Association, or corporation

Setting

  • Urban

Within city limits with access to urban amenities and infrastructure.

Self-produced energy

  • Over 66%

Energy sources used

  • Photovoltaic Solar
  • Biomass (from wood or other organic materials)

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%
  • Land area size
    7 acres

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Location

  • Oregon, United States

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