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A RETURNING-CITIZEN-LED LAND ACQUISITION

Warriors
Returning
to the Forest.

We've regained our freedom. We've built capacity. Now we're looking to acquire land and return to the forest.

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WESTERN OREGONREST · RECREATION · READINESSLAND ACQUISITION / 2026

01 / OUR ROOT

We grow from Ubuntu Climate Initiative.

Oregon Ubuntu is rooted in the Ubuntu Climate Initiative — a growing community, rooted in the U.S. and connected globally, of African and Pan-Indigenous creatives, leaders, scholars, and allies, rebuilding the sacred bonds between people, nature, and all living things.

Every stage of our course traces back to the same root: Ubuntu Dinners — parties with a purpose, where the table is the smallest viable commons and every dish carries a story of people helping people.

Reuniting people and planet.

Visit Ubuntu Climate Initiative ↗

02 / OUR STORY

We've done things that once seemed impossible.

We are people who have been separated from land, opportunity, ownership, and, in every one of our cases, freedom itself.

We've regained our freedom.

We've built capacity. We've created opportunities, built homes, relationships, and lives that once seemed beyond our reach. We've built communities and organizations — and now a new village movement. We've organized, advocated, and taken responsibility for what comes next.

We're returning to something many of us have never had the opportunity to know.

And we're bringing with us what we do know: commoning, collective governance, building, enduring, active responsibility, and making something possible where there was once little possibility.

03 / THE UBUNTU PATH

From the dinner table to shared land.

The land campaign is the last stage of a course that builds trust, skill, and resources in order — each stage funded and staffed by the relationships formed at the one before it.

  1. PRESTAGE

    Ubuntu Dinners

    Parties with a purpose: altars, arts, food stories, and people-helping-people story booths. Five hosts, five tables, one story bank.

    Funded · August 2026

  2. STAGE ONE

    Place Tending

    A cohort of returning-citizen homeowners tends each other's properties in bi-monthly work parties, each closed with an Ubuntu Commoning Circle dinner.

    Year 1

  3. STAGE TWO

    Resilience Infrastructure

    The same circle raises gardens, solar, rain catchment, fire breaks, and water systems on each property — the cohort as team and workers.

    Year 2

  4. STAGE THREE

    Land Stewardship

    The circle acquires forested land for rest, recreation, and readiness — the commons with an address. This campaign.

    Year 3

04 / WHY THE LAND

Three reasons. One commons.

Rest.

A place to lay burdens down. Time and space for people who spend their lives doing hard work for their communities.

Recreation.

Movement, gathering, art, water, food, and joy. Space where being together is enough, and where relationship is practiced.

Readiness.

Hands-on learning, forest relationships, food systems, resilience infrastructure, and practical self-reliance.

What can actually be built or hosted will depend on property-specific zoning, permits, water, sanitation, and safety requirements.

05 / ACQUISITION

The forest isn't an idea. It's land.

Mist moving through an old-growth Pacific Northwest forest of cedar, fir, and fern
THE KIND OF GROUND WE'RE LOOKING FOR — WESTERN OREGON FOREST

Our intention is to acquire a substantial forested property in western Oregon and establish the infrastructure to use and care for it together.

The first facilities are modest by design: two yurts for up to four overnight guests, a gathering place, and sanitation infrastructure—only where legally feasible and appropriately permitted.

LAND WE SEEK
30–100
preferred acres
ACQUISITION GOAL
$350–500K
working purchase range
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
$500–750K
provisional full target
OUR CRITERIA
Forest & water
essential, with practical access

These targets are preliminary, not a selected property, appraisal, or final project budget.

06 / HOW WE WORK

How we work

“Our objective is stewardship and embodiment. Our approach is nature-based investment and infrastructure.”

Five founding members and a facilitator are organizing the work. The council will define its own roles and governing procedures, consider ownership options, and establish protections for collective control. External partners can contribute expertise and resources without automatically gaining decision-making authority.

07 / A CONVERSATION

First, a conversation.

We're beginning with relationships: people willing to put their word behind what may become possible. We welcome introductions to charitable landowners, potential major supporters, land and conservation partners, and people with relevant expertise.

We are not accepting donations through this website. No specific property has been purchased, and a charitable donation-receiving structure has not yet been approved.