The Vision: A Village in Silver Creek Canyon 

Hi, I'm Megan. Since 2015, I’ve served as a vocational guide, teacher, podcast host, writer, and tarot reader in Portland, Oregon. Through this work, I’ve been honored to help thousands of thoughtful people reconnect with something ancient and instinctual inside of themselves, reclaim their energy, time, and labor as sacred in ways that meet their material needs, and cultivate community with the more-than-human world, which is full of wisdom about how to work and live well.

Village-making is the next step in this work. This page is a home for our endeavor to purchase property within Silver Creek Canyon - 440 acres of wild, dynamic, beautiful landscape, with resident Bear, Elk, Cougar, and a plethora of native plants. Rather than simply buying land in isolation and with my own plans, my dream is to collaborate with both the land and other humans to create something vibrant and long-standing. Possibilities gestating within this vision include: a Village where people live full-time in modest dwellings, a modern Commons where people who live off-site can responsibly forage or hunt, and a place where land-based rites of passage can occur.

There is no built-up infrastructure currently on this property, and Silver Creek, a tributary of the great waterfalls found in Silver Falls State Park, runs through it. This land is an ideal place for humans who will listen to the beings there and enter into a committed partnership with them.

In the Spring and Summer of 2026, we raised funds to commission a Land Readiness & Strategic Fit Assessment by broker Nat Andreini (contact me if you would like to see a copy). We are currently exploring next steps with regard to entity formation, what it would take to steward this amount of land, and potential funding avenues.

I’ll be sharing updates and invitations to get involved on a public call on Tuesday, September 29th. You can learn more and register below.

A Bit About Me and How this Project Came to Be

As a girl growing up in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, my sense of self was shaped through the conversation I was in with the land and the more-than-human beings there. Knowing myself as a beloved of the Earth is essential to who I am, and today I teach, write, and host a podcast about pagan, land-based ways to relate to ourselves, each other, and the wider web of Life in order to find strength in this chaotic time. Today I live in Portland, Oregon with my spouse and our two young children. You can learn more about me here or by listening to my podcast, A Wild New Work.

For over 10 years, I've envisioned living more closely to the land and other humans. Rather than leaving the city as often as possible to visit places with wildness still intact, I long to live with that wildness–to attune to its rhythms and be changed by it.

Thousands of times, I have dreamed of a Village in the woods. It's a place without cars, where we take sun-dappled footpaths to one another's homes or to our communal gathering areas. The dwellings we make are well-crafted from materials right around us. We hear layers of birdsong each morning, and the burbling of a nearby creek. It's a Village that's home to people of all ages who desire to listen to the land and their ancestors as they do humble, culture-shifting work together. The quiet, connection, and deep joy that our ailing world needs dwells within this place.

I know I'm not alone in yearning for Village and a sense of deep connection to the land. I also know how impossible it can seem to meet that yearning. There are many factors that make it difficult to join hands with others and commit to living with the land in a good way; so many experiments like this have failed, or were never able to get off the ground. While that's true, I know many of us feel an urgency to keep trying–to keep honoring this desire we feel for another way to live. 

We also see the insatiable appetite of capitalist culture that is destroying ancient families of Trees, diminishing the flow of fresh water, and extracting all that it can from this precious Earth that we love. People like us are being called to come and listen to, learn from, and advocate for the more-than-human beings who are being ground up in this destructive system.

Over the last 18 months, I've decided that it's time for me to heartily embrace these callings and visions that I carry in my heart and begin asking the land to show me if there is a place in need of loving human stewardship. 

I believe they have answered.

The Place: Silver Creek Canyon

Soon after I began asking the land to show me a place that desires human stewardship, I "happened" to see a listing for property for sale about 15 minutes outside of Silverton, Oregon. You can view the listing here.

It immediately spoke to me, and after many months of sitting with the idea, I requested a showing. It was a joy (and also somewhat overwhelming) to go and visit these 440 acres, and I came away with more questions than answers.

The property is a green sanctuary amidst farmland and has multiple small tributaries of Water flowing through it. There are low, flat portions of the land, steep hills, and flat areas up above the canyon. This feasibility study will give us a much better sense of what's possible to create within this land and its unique geography.

Maybe it goes without saying, but just to make it explicitly clear to the Universe: If you or someone you know has the funds to purchase this property outright on our behalf, please contact me.

The Next Step: Community Call on September 29th, 2026

The support and momentum around this vision have been strong since the beginning, and it feels like the right time to open up to greater discussion, visioning, and involvement. To that end, I’ll be hosting a community call, open to the public, on Tuesday, September 29th.

You’re welcome to join us whether you’ve been part of this journey since the beginning or are just now hearing about it.

This facilitated time together will include:

• Envisioning possibilities around this endeavor (the dreaming is essential to nourishing this seed but can get so lost in the logistical discussion);

• What this dream is showing me at this time, which includes information from the assessment we commissioned and what we currently know about where this project is headed;

• Time to answer questions community members have;

• Invitations into next steps, which could include funding the services of a real estate attorney, contributing to a map of community member skills, engaging in ritual to draw this vision through, and more.

I would love to have you there with us live, and a recording will be shared with everyone who has registered. Please feel free to share this event widely and/or with a few beloveds who carry a dream of land stewardship and Village in their hearts as well!

Maybe it goes without saying, but just to make it explicitly clear to the Universe: If you or someone you know has the funds to purchase this property outright on our behalf, please contact me.