The Mother Way
On Mother’s Day 2024, we premiered our film, The Motherground, at the Southern Oregon Guild of Artists and Artisans. This year for Mother’s Day, we will share the film as it becomes available to watch online for the first time ever!
“The Motherground” is a 30 minute film about women and their connection to nature and her sons and daughters. The dance film culminates in a moving pact between the great mother and those entrusted to protect her. Shot in Southern Oregon, this visually stunning film will leave all mother hearts lifted and inspired! AND, you will be supporting The Motherline’s work protecting our planet!
For a minimum $10 donation you will receive access to stream “The Motherground” anytime over Mother’s Day weekend, in the convenience of your own home, at your own time, without the hassle of traveling. You and your family will have access to enjoy this film as many times as your hearts desire, over the Mother’s Day weekend.
And, purchasing access to the film will also give you one month FREE membership to The Motherline online, where we have our collection of Homestead Help films to view and learn from, our members-only discussion forum, and access to upcoming live events.
The Clean Sweep
This will be our fourth Second Saturday Sweep of 2026! We’re up to about 200 tons of trash collected, between 2025 and 2026 so far. We’re on the home stretch!
The next event will be Saturday, June 13, 8 am – noon (note the new earlier time, as the weather is getting warmer). We’ll be at the Deer Creek Grange again, at 3750 Lakeshore Drive, in Selma. It’s a beautiful spot, and if you live in Selma, you should come out: we’ll probably finish the Selma area in June and move to a new Hub in July!
The June event will have some bonus extras: lunch this time will be grilled pizza, by Sugar Pine Dine. I can’t wait! Plus we’ll have ice cream for all after the pizza. And the usual coffee, donuts, and snacks, all morning.
In 2025/2026, we have hosted 13 cleanup days, out in the woods, picking up so much trash. We’ve hauled off something like 400,000 pounds! Almost all of 2025 was spent on the formerly atrocious Kerby Mainline area. In 2026, we finished a few details at Kerby Mainline, and then started on the Deer Creek watershed/Selma area. Once we finish in Selma, we’ll reach across the rest of the watershed, heading south toward the Sucker Creek drainage, as well as the valleys of the east and west forks of the Illinois River. Rough & Ready, O’Brien, Waldo, Sanger Peak, Takilma (Page Mountain), and Holland. Check our Clean Sweep page for more details.
Free Tire Recycling Day!
The third annual Tire Day is coming right up!
Saturday, May 30, 2026, 9am-noon.
NEW THIS YEAR: Do not arrive early! The parking lot behind the Chevron will be CLOSED until 8:00 am; we will get set up and open the gates at 8!
In our first two annual Tire Days combined, we collected 6,000 tires. That’s 6,000 tires that are no longer sitting in backyards or the woods, leaching chemicals into the ground, and hatching mosquitoes! You can find some fun pictures and stats from our previous Tire Days here.
If you’d like to volunteer to help at the event, or if you have any questions, please contact Cindy: (541)294-0260.
This project is paid for by generous support from the Josephine County Solid Waste Agency. And organized by Motherline, the Illinois Valley Community Development Organization, and Rural ReciProsperity here in CJ!
THE Halloween Carnival!
We’ve hosted two annual THE Halloween Carnivals now, and it’s safe to say, this is now a community favorite! We’ll be back with the 3rd Annual, this coming October, on the Friday before Halloween.
Bring your best costume! We’ll see you there!
Friday, October 30, 2026
And meanwhile check out some photos and a video from last year, here.
Earth Day Cabaret
Come see the RiverStars in their final performance of the year, “King of the Caves”! They will be presenting their fabulous dances and scenes that they’ve been working on. The Motherline/Planet Dance class will also be presenting a final performance of the year, “A Dawning”.
Additionally, the Cabaret this year will include:
- Special Earth Day activities, outside, before the show, including a free clothing exchange, seed planting activities, upcycle crafting, and informational booths
- A gigantic sugar shuffle!
- A Planet Dance party!
- Lunch, or dinner, or both: Sugar Pine Dine will be offering delicious gourmet local-foods-based taco plates, soft drinks, and desserts.
- Enter the raffle to win a pair of tickets to see none other than Ani DiFranco at the Brit!!
Come out and join us for a whole afternoon of family fun, celebrating Earth Day and all of the kids’ dance and theater work!
(Tickets are also available at the door, sliding scale; nobody will be turned away.)
1-6 pm on Sunday, April 19, 2026 – Check out our Cabaret page for this year’s schedule.