Mountain Homestead is an ever-evolving fusion of community, family, friendship, work, and play. We are an off-grid homestead nestled within 400 acres of lush temperate rainforest on the south coast of Oregon. Permaculture guides landscape use decisions. Consultants Tom Ward and Toby Hemenway have guided design of drainage, erosion control, fencing, access, and gravity flow water as the framework for our developing solar bowl and food forest. We steward the land with ecological and permacultural principles in mind: producing our own solar and hydro power, collecting and reusing salvaged materials when possible, building with cob, strawbales, and lumber milled from our forest, growing food, developing an Ecoforestry business focused on restoring forest health, using gravity flow and greywater systems, heating with wood, composting our waste, and designing closed systems to minimize energy consumption and maximize yield. A Conservation Easement protects the natural values of the land in perpetuity. Our community founders, Chip and Clara Boggs, have owned the land since 1989, and created Mountain Homestead as a living, breathing model of a future worldwide “ecological culture”. We open ourselves up to the community as a learning center, providing apprenticeships, workshops, open houses, and field trip days for local schools. We also have regular visitors, both new people and old friends.

Our neighbors at the Cob Cottage Company (www.cobcottage.com) lease part of our land and are valued as fellow community members. They have held world-famous Natural Building workshops here since 2001, drawing a vibrant, international crowd of cobbers during the summer months. Learning opportunities abound, as we often

exchange help and support.

  Status: We are taking a sebatical from community life for a year. Please contact us later this year