Muddy Creek Satyagraha

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

  • Updated on: Nov 28, 2023 (about 1 year ago)
  • Created on: Aug 20, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
Muddy Creek Satyagraha

Mission Statement

Muddy Creek Satyagraha is a network of people dedicated to living the ethical life free from the global economy in an atmosphere optimal for natural living and nonviolent thinking.

Community Description

This is an outreach project for the earth involving nature skills for the sake of community health. For details please email. Thank you

  • Status: Established (4+ adults, 2+ years)
  • Started Planning: 1213
  • Started Living Together: 1214
  • Visitors Accepted: Yes
  • Open to New Members: Yes
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  • Community Address:
    26208 Finley Refuge Rd.
    Corvallis, Oregon
    United States
  • Location

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About

  • Type(s): Ecovillage (organized around ecology and sustainability)
  • Location: Rural

Housing

  • Status: We have undeveloped land
  • Housing Provided: Included in Membership

Membership

  • Adult Members: 2
  • Child Members: 2
  • Visitors Accepted: Yes
  • Visitor Process: Please feel free to email.
  • Open to New Members: Yes

Government

  • Decision Making: Nonviolent decision making
  • Identified Leader: No
  • Leadership Core Group: No
  • Additional Comments: The process of nonviolent decision making is outlined in the many books, videos, and training sessions of the late Marshall B. Rosenberg founder of Nonviolent Communication. Here's a brief outline: Under the paradigm of nonviolent decision making strategies are made only after everyone receives all the empathy they need and everyone in the circle feels a real and tangible change in the atmosphere where everyone knows their needs are heard and understood and that their needs matter, and can be fully met, whereupon the problem becomes an opportunity for giving and something quite natural gives us strategies and requests and the rule or direction is created by everyone and cherished by everyone. If there is any deviation from this then there is, at least within the person, some conflict. It can be said that the power of nonviolence is dependent upon renewed connection. That way choices are about empathy not rules.

Economics

  • Dues, Fees, or Shared Expenses: No
  • Shared Income: All or Close to All
  • Open to Members with Existing Debt: Yes
  • Additional Comments: Being supported within the gift economy means giving in a voluntary way or "moment by moment true giving and receiving." So not depending on payment, trade, barter, or expenses. Giving is done without relationship to previous receiving when there is no cost to life. This is possible through everyone's needs being addressed without correlation to past or future giving. Like our ancestors did. Before the loss of the tribal and extended family ways based on the communal cooking pot and nature based communal foodways and lifeways.

Sustainability Practices

  • Energy Infrastructure: We are totally off grid.
  • Current Renewable Energy Generation: 100%
  • Energy Sources: Brush fuel
  • Planned Renewable Energy Generation: 100%
  • Current Food Produced: 100%
  • Planned Food Produced: 100%
  • Food Produced Locally: 100%

Lifestyle

  • Internet Available: No
  • Internet Fast?: There is no internet access at our community.
  • Cellphone Service: Good for most people.
  • Dietary Practices:
    • Paleo (no grains, dairy, processed foods, or legumes)
    • Local
    • Organic (no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers)
    • GMO Free (only non-genetically modified organisms)
    • Dairy-Free
    • Gluten-Free
  • Dietary Choice or Restrictions: Yes - we all share a common diet.
  • Special Diets OK: Yes
  • Alcohol Use: No, this community does not permit alcohol use.
  • Additional Diet Comments: We grow, forage and glean all of our palio superfoods.

Additional Comments

"In this structure composed of innumerable villages, there will be ever widening, ever ascending circles. Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom. But it will be an oceanic circle whose center will be the individual, for the village, for the circle of villages, till the last the whole becomes one life composed of individuals, never aggressive in their arrogance but ever humble, sharing the majesty of the oceanic circle of which they are integral units." "My invitation to all is to spin, if only for half an hour daily, doing so for the sake of the starving millions of this land makes the movement at once both political and spiritual." "My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering not the suffering of a tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. I know that a whole people can adopt it without accepting it as its creed and without understanding its philosophy. People generally do not understand the philosophy of all their acts." Mahatma Gandhi

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