Earth Abides

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About the Community

What we do

Earth Abides is located in a remote area in the Sierra Nevada foothills, in Central Sierra Miwuk lands. We are a rural, intentional community and since 2019 Earth Abides is under the auspices of Canticle Farm, an Oakland, California-based nonprofit. Canticle Farm is an urban farm and educational center, an intentional community, and an experiment in faith-based activism, nonviolence, and restorative justice. Earth Abides was originally founded in 1976 in the lineage of the Catholic Worker movement, by people seeking to create a Catholic Worker Farm – one of the pillars of Peter Maurin’s three step program of social reconstruction (round table discussions, houses of hospitality, and farm communes or agronomic universities). You can learn more about our history on our website. Surrounded by vast areas of wildlands, we have frequent encounters with a rich diversity of non-human kin, ranging from the smallest of organisms to large ones such as bear and cougar. We are currently building the foundation of our relationship to this place by learning how to harmonize ourselves with the ones who have already been living here in the form of human, plant, animal and elemental beings. Life here can be rugged at times. Examples include rural roads, social isolation, water and/or power limitations, being snowed in, chopping wood for wood stove heating, and living with fire hazard. Except for satellite internet and a landline, we are off-grid. Currently there are three people living full time on the land, with plenty of visitors and beautiful extended community members coming often. Our main initiatives at this time are: – Cleaning up waste left by previous occupants – Wildfire fuels reduction – Food, water, shelter and medicine sovereignty – Building relationship with and creating land access for the Sierra Miwuk on their ancestral lands with the intention of honoring and being led by their ancestral wisdom. – Educational offerings: Permaculture, nonviolence, restorative justice, and much more..

Our Mission

We are living the ‘Great Turning’ while experiencing the simultaneous ‘Great Unraveling’ and charting our service path and role in the planetary shift from an industrial-growth society to a life-sustaining society.

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How to join

Our membership is relational and thus earned in the dynamic long-term process of building intimacy and trust through serving in good works together on the land. In other words, membership is not purchased but rather created from mutual discovery of how one’s gifts fit into the relations on the land and in the community.

Decision-making process

  • Full Consensus

Everyone must agree before moving forward.

Governance structure

  • Founder/Leader-led

Primary authority rests with the community’s founder(s) or designated leader(s).

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

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

Common House, Garden(s), Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Swimming pond or pool, Outdoor Kitchen, Large Scale Kitchen, Tractor & Farm Equipment, Fire pit, Swingsets & play areas, Internet

Frequency of communal meals

  • About once a week

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

Setting

  • Rural

Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.

Self-produced energy

  • Over 66%

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%

Local, organic, or fair trade food

  • Up to 33%
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Location

  • United States

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