Welcome to this web page. We know you have a choice of many web pages to be visiting right now and appreciate this opportunity to serve you.  Also, thanks for being interested in exploring the Cedar Moon intentional community's in-depth descriptions.  We have two different flavors of community description, and they're both pasted below for your choosing pleasure.
You can choose "More Poetic," which tries to give you a feel of the rhythm of the magic that lives in this place, a rhythm which is emminently and perpetually manifest-able-a-docious; or you can choose "More Descriptive," which is written more in the style of Hemingway, and gets you to the brass tacks of what is happening here in fewer words.
...or you can choose both!  Choose a Life Lived to the Fullest and read all 10 paragraphs!
And if you like what you've read, go to cedarmoon.us to fill out an application for residency.  We look forward to hearing from you.  Probably.
 
More poetic:
Live at Tryon Life Community Farm
Looking for a way to weave your unique skills into a dynamic, action-oriented group that teaches and demonstrates what it means to live in integrity with the natural and human world?
Imagine waking up on a farm, surrounded by the spirit and quiet of the forest. You rise and greet the trees that surround the land, go for a walk and pet the goats and sheep on your way. You pick some greens in the garden and cook them for breakfast. You spend your morning preparing a workshop on teaching adults about permaculture, while canning some homegrown apples. Then you bike into town for your afternoon commitments. When you return in the evening, there’s a warm, home cooked meal on the table and a wonderful community of people sharing and laughing. In the evening you sit quietly in your space and journal about how you are going to bring interesting new groups to the land to experience the complexity and inspiration you felt all day.
We are the Cedar Moon intentional community at Tryon Life Community Farm, an eclectic group of artists and activists, farmers and healers, builders and dreamers. In 2005, we saved seven acres of land in Southwest Portland from development and since then have been building and growing a sustainability education center on that land. Our ongoing work, both as a community, and as an education center, focuses on how to live in harmony with our landbase and how to build a strong and vibrant community. We are an intentional community of 18 adults and three children, and share food, create heart space for each other, and have ceremony together. We work the land and also continuously improve upon our process. As an education center, we have hosted workshops and classes on permaculture, natural building, herbal medicine, bee keeping, gardening, food preservation, primitive skills, conflict resolution, consensus decision-making and social change strategy. We have the country’s first all outdoor pre-school and kindergarten.
We are excited to invite new, inspired community members to help us co-create our future. We provide space for new members to bring their passions and interests here, and so we are thrilled to see how our community might grow with the new people who will join us, and what those folks will bring to the farm. Ideal candidates will be self-motivated, grounded, experienced, and committed and ready to be part of a team working at a non-profit sustainability education center.
Does this extremely unique and special blend of home community and work for the world, with all of its awesomeness and challenges, sound exciting to you?
For more information check out www.tryonfarm.org
Applications to become residents are available at cedarmoon.us, or you can contact us at pond@tryonfarm.org
 
More Descriptive:
Cedar Moon, the human community living at Tryon Life Community Farm, is seeking new residents. On these seven acres is a visionary land project with many resources for experimentation. This is a unique location on the edge between the city and the forest. Up the driveway is a Portland city bus stop and just beyond the backyard is the 700-acre Tryon Creek State Park.
A dedicated team of folks acquired the land in 2005 to protect it from being developed. It is now owned by the Oregon Sustainable Agricultural Land Trust. The land hosts the TLC Farm educational non-profit and is open to the public six days a week. There are about twenty humans living on the land who are the Cedar Moon Community.
Many Cedar Moon members draw inspiration from social justice movements around the world and through time. We hope to contribute to local organizing through experimenting and demonstrating technologies of non-hierarchical community. We are committed to moving towards a horizontal leadership structure and make decisions by consensus.
Cedar Moon residents share dinners together each night and host full moon celebrations in our cob sauna. Community members tend goats and chickens, as well as the gardens and food forest. Residents share the work to run the community and many volunteer with TLC farm, tending the land and organizing educational programming.
TLC Farm hosts educational tours and workshops, including an outdoor Waldorf-inspired early education program. TLC Farm also hosts a yearly Permaculture Design Course, and seeks to integrate permaculture principles into land projects.
We need help to live into a vision of humans living in right relationship with the land. We are looking for people to live and work with us who are self-directed and excited about working here. What skills and experiences do you have to bring to this project? How could living in Cedar Moon enrich your life?
Rooms currently available can be appropriate for singles, couples or a family, so feel free to get in touch.
For more information check out www.tryonfarm.org
Applications to become residents are available at cedarmoon.us, or you can contact us at pond@tryonfarm.org