This weekend an intentional community in Eugene will celebrate its 25th Anniversary. They’re having an open house Saturday.
A group of people from the University of Oregon student co-ops co-founded Duma community in 1991. The colorful house south of the University of Oregon on Alder Street is home to 9 people. They share meals and chores and an interest in ecological living. Co-founder Allen Hancock says he’s lived in community for all these years because of the people.
It meets my yearning for living a lighter footprint on the earth and I’ve been able to learn from other people of different backgrounds, different generations. You name it. There’s just a wide variety of people that have lived here over the years.
The 3 story house was built in the 1920s as a home for wayward girls. Now it features a garden full of edible plants, bees and chickens and has a cob pizza oven.
On Saturday, there will be tours of the house and garden, and workshops on intentional community and group decision making.