Purple Raven Farm
The following is a work in progress
Our List Of Principals
Enrich our lives and refresh our spirits through connection and cooperation.
Meet social, economic and environmental challenges with creativity and resilience
Cultivate and foster authentic radical self expression
Diversity
We value a community diverse in race, gender identity, ability, age, sexuality, culture and income level. We honor our differences and support the uniqueness and growth of each person. We respect individual beliefs and encourage diverse traditions, celebrations and explorations of the spirit.
Trust
We envision a community where each person is respected and respectful. A feeling of safety and trust is a key component of a healthy community. We foster this element within our community by respecting each other’s beliefs, accepting each other as individuals, and communicating openly and honestly. We build a safe and nurturing community for everyone using a safer space policy and a set of principles to help guide us along the way.
Balancing Community and Privacy, we value both community and privacy and seek to have a balance between the two. Our mission is to create an intentional and sustainable community by building a sense of belonging and fostering an atmosphere of trust and respect. We benefit from the sharing of time, tools, and responsibilities while valuing individual and family privacy.
Free Association
Everyone should be allowed to associate freely with those they choose and to disassociate themselves when they choose. Individuals should not be forced into social relations against their will. We base our social interactions upon free agreement, rather than coercion.
Mutual Aid
Instead of attempting to dominate each other, social relations should be based on solidarity and voluntary cooperation. When individuals come together to help each other they can accomplish more than when they work against each other.
Environmental Ethics
We strive to live lightly on our planet. We reuse, recycle and renew, remediate wherever and whenever possible. We strive to treat the natural environment with responsibility and respect.
Work
We believe that integrating our personal lives and livelihoods is beneficial, and bringing our work to our home is one step in achieving that. We encourage cottage industries, home offices and artistic endeavors.
About
Us
We have been holding a vision for this land based project and now we are excitedly seeing that vision grow to a reality before our very eyes. After lots of patience, intention and work we finally purchased 40 acres of land in the area commonly known as North East Ontario Canada. We moved in during the winter of 2020, rolled up our sleeves, and took a nap. Just kidding, we got to work! Haha.(then we took a nap after) Anyways! Moving on.
We are along the southern edge of the Boreal Forest in hardiness zone 3, where an ancient glacial lake met its shores tucked away on the edge of where farmland meets public land atop of the Laurentian Plateau, a geological shield and within the lesser clay belt.
We come from the pacific north-west. After the disappearance of too many mountain glaciers, increasing wildfire threat and trauma, life threatening heatwaves and watching wells and reservoirs go dry, we studied the predicted climate forecasts for our area for the coming years, and although we loved where we were living, amongst the mountains that we know so well, we decided it was time to move on. We made the move here to the north east, where hopefully, and according to our research, our investment into this project will have a better chance of sustainability at least in our lifetimes. It was a sad and also exciting time for us.
We did it! Now the work begins. Careful what you ask for? Not here! We are excited about all the projects and ideas we have in mind. We are busy bees, happily working to make exciting things happen out here. Some of these ideas have been rattling around in our heads for decades so it's very satisfying to rattle them into existence, and as it turns out so far, our ideas aren't so bad after all! :)
Safer Space
At Purple Raven Farm. we want people of all races, gender identities, abilities, ages, sexualities, cultures and income levels to feel welcome. To this end, harassment and discrimination will not be tolerated in any form. We ask that all participants ask about and respect one another’s physical and emotional boundaries, identities and backgrounds, including pronouns and names.
Inclusivity and support are important aspects of creating a safer space so that everyone can experience and enjoy the space. Inclusivity means not just tolerating, but celebrating differences – be they physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, cultural, social, artistic, communicative or otherwise.
To create and maintain the values fundamental to a safer space, it is necessary to have a willingness to hold dialogue, receive criticism, accept responsibility and take accountability. We endeavor to do this and to intentionally practice clear, open, respectful and honest communication.
We do not tolerate harassing, discriminatory or abusive behavior that violates our standard of an inclusive, non-discriminatory safer space.
Harassment includes:
Offensive comments related to race, ancestry, color, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, physical appearance, body size, age, social disadvantage or religion.
Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names.
Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not consensual.
Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like “*hug*” or “*backrub*”) without consent or after a request to stop.
Threats of violence or language alluding to violence directed towards a person, or persons.
Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to harm themselves or die by suicide.
Deliberate intimidation.
Stalking or following.
Harassing photography or recording.
Unwelcome sexual attention, verbal, physical or otherwise.
Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others.
Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from abuse.