We're Building a Culture of Care...
We believe humans are not separate from the land; we are part of it. And when people feel connected to each other, to place, and to purpose, real change becomes possible. Our community exists to restore connection through movement, shared work, learning, and care for the places we call home. We dance together. We clean up rivers and trails. We share homesteading skills and mutual support. We bring environmental education into lived, joyful practice. This is not about perfection. It’s about participation.
What Membership Means
Becoming a member isn’t just a financial contribution, it’s a declaration that you want to live differently, together. Your membership helps fund:
Youth Programs – RiverStars Dance/Theater classes, Cultivate Kids Arts/Agriculture program, and our multi-generational Mentorwebs
Environmental stewardship – trash clean-ups, land restoration, and hands-on care for local ecosystems
Embodied connection – community dance, movement, and creative gatherings that strengthen human bonds
Homestead education & support – skill-sharing, workshops, and resources for more resilient, land-based living
Environmental education & outreach – bringing accessible, grounded knowledge into our wider community
Organization Infrastructure – the behind-the-scenes support that keeps all of this possible
What You Receive
As a member, you’re not standing on the sidelines; you’re part of the weave.
You receive:
A sense of belonging to a values-aligned community
Access to our calendar of events, workshops, and gatherings
Opportunities to learn, share skills, and be supported
The knowledge and peace of mind that your contribution directly fuels real, local impact
A seat at the table as we imagine and build what comes next
Why It Matters
The systems around us often encourage isolation, extraction, and burnout. We’re choosing something else.
Membership allows us to move enough to care deeply for our land, for each other, and for future generations. Every member strengthens the roots of
this work, making it possible to grow new projects, reach more people, and sustain what we’ve already built.
If you’re longing for connection to people, to place, to purpose you’re in the right place.
Join us!
Let’s tend to what matters, together!
Sample Content from Online Membership
Our online membership includes a great collection of Homestead Help instructional videos, on topics you may not be expecting, or with approaches you’ve never imagined! We also have a growing handful of dance instructional videos and strengthening workout videos. We also have our Table Talks, where some of the local Motherliners share stories and ideas for dealing with issues that affect us all. Plus, we have our members-only forum, which hosts some great conversations about issues that are at the top of our thoughts. Check out the samples below, and then join our online to see the complete collection!
Homestead Water Systems
by Cindy Palacios
This, and all Homestead Help videos, are FREE when you join The Motherline!
In Homestead Water Systems, Cindy shares that her homestead not include running water, and that she prefers it that way, having made a conscious choice to not install running water. Why would anyone do that? And how to you wash your hands and the dishes and the kids and everything else? This is a life-style choice that is possibly not for everyone, but you never know: a simpler life can yield rewards that you can’t imagine until you try it!
Cindy has been homesteading in the Illinois Valley of Southern Oregon for a dozen years. She tends to choose low-tech, human-scale technologies, whenever possible, while she lives with her four kids on 185 acres of off-grid woods. You can read her longer bio here
Reparation Gardening
by Ariadne Grace
This, and all Homestead Help videos, are FREE when you join The Motherline!
In Reparation Gardening, Ariadne takes us on a tour of her organic, permaculture garden, bursting with food, medicine, herbs, plant dyes, and home decor. You’ll learn all about how she gardens huge yields of food that repair soil rather than depleting it, how she arranges bed geometry that deters pests and beckons pollinators, and other methods that affirm a gardener’s place as a servant of the earth rather than a master! Debunking many entrenched gardening myths, Ariadne covers methods she employs as a long time farmitarian homesteader growing 80% of her food, and utilizing her past as a market farmer. This video focuses on permaculture crops that do well in the age of climate precarity, and methods that minimize the use of water, as well as the beauty and solace a well designed garden can have for its caretaker.
In addition to being Motherline and RiverStar’s Resident Artist, Ariadne has been homesteading in Southern Oregon for almost 20 years. With an intensive poly-culture style of garden abundance, Ariadne is a farmatarian who grows almost all of her own food. You can read her longer bio here.
Composting
In her exploration of all the ways she has found to make compost, Ariadne debunks the myth that fabulous compost has to be precise in any way. Making great compost is something that anyone can do in any garden, and there are so many ways to do it! And, metaphorically speaking, compost helps with human emotional growth, too!
The Braid
Are you wondering why we are a group of mothers who dance, and offer youth dance, theater, and agriculture classes, and talk about homesteading? It’s because we believe they are inseparable! Watch The Braid to learn more!
We are meant to tend this world together. Through movement, stewardship, and shared knowledge, we’re rebuilding connection —
To land. To body. To each other.
Join a community built around the meaningful practice of care — join The Motherline.