Trillium Farm in Southern Oregon

We've been staying a Trillium Farm for two weeks now. To say this is beautiful country barely scratches the surface. Located out in the woods near Jacksonville, Oregon, Trillium is a wilderness wildlife sanctuary, so the landscape here is not so screwed up as most places.

Trillium has a long history and used to be a thriving community, but the combination of people issues (folks not paying dues and keeping up the farm) and a couple of floods knocked the community back to just Chant and Susanna Thomas, whose goal is to rebuild the membership with the right folk.

We've hit it off really well with Chant and Susanna, who are very educated and cultured and generous. We've been learning ten new things a day hanging out with them.

We are living in our trailer, pulled onto their property, of course. It's been getting cold at night and fortunately, they're giving us electricity without which we probably wouldn't be able to stay in this part of the country at this time of year.

There are a million things to do around here, so they are grateful for our energy to help get things ready for winter.