Trillium Farm Community
Trillium Farm Community
PO Box 1330
Jacksonville, OR 97530541-899-1696
trillium@deepwild.org
Please write "Trillium Inquiry" in subject line of e-mail!Founded in 1976, Trillium Community Farm is an intentional community village hosting an educational, cultural, spiritual, arts and retreat center deep in the Siskiyou Mountains. The Trust protects a remote historic homestead with a resident community of stewards. Our vision embraces our commitment to the Land and to each other. Through the seasons we create and host a series of events, providing diverse opportunities to share this magical Land.
Trillium is 82 acres, deep in the eastern Siskiyou Mountains where Birch Creek flows through several ponds and over a waterfall into the Little Applegate River. A primitive footbridge is the only development in the river canyon, which serves as a campground for our larger events. The river's riparian ecology is intact, providing excellent spawning habitat for coho salmon and steelhead.
Most of the community is located in the beautiful little canyon of Birch Creek, where historic community buildings, cabins, gardens, and llama pastures are placed along a string of ponds, meadows, and groves of trees. Two springs supply gravity-fed water to the canyon and to a tall adjoining ridge, where gardens and several cabins are located on the southern exposure. On the summit of this ridge is a medicine wheel with wide views of the surrounding wildlands we call the Dakubetede Wilderness (in honor of the Native People who once lived in the Little Applegate watershed).
Trillium serves as a wildlife sanctuary and as a place where humans can become comfortable with the power of wild country on a daily basis. The surrounding wildlands have an extensive trail system and several thousand pristine acres of remote canyons, high ridges, huge meadows, and virgin forests to explore. Sunny and dry in the rain shadow of the Siskiyous' highest peaks, this area is critical deer winter range and home to coyote, bear, bobcat, mountain lion, birds of prey, nesting songbirds, and even endangered turtles living in ponds once used to raise trout.
Biodiversity is strong here with many diverse ecosystems draped in complex mosaics over the varied landscape. Rich forests of conifers and hardwood trees, including a rare birch, fill the canyons. The ridges are covered with steep meadows, oak woodlands, and diverse shrub communities dominated by manzanita, ceanothus, and mountain mahogany. The north slope of Trillium Mountain rises over it all, providing splendid views of old-growth conifer forest. Many of the plant communities and individual species are at the edge of their ranges here, where the Siskiyous link the coast ranges to the west, the Cascade/Sierras to the east, and the Willamette and Sacramento valley systems to the north and south.
The river, creek, and several ponds provide varied opportunities to study aquatic ecology. The complex geology of the Klamath Knot is evident here, with limestone and metamorphics interacting around Trillium, and extensive granitic and serpentine systems in nearby higher elevations along the Siskiyou Crest.
Beyond educational opportunities, the power of the wild Nature in which we are embedded can fill us with an even deeper nourishment than clear water and clean air. It provides an inspiration, a psychic grounding, a way to get in touch with our own wild natures; ecopsychology in action!Please do not bring your pets, especially dogs, to Trillium Farm, a wildlife sanctuary.
Thank you very much!