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An update: with gratitude — filming at Eloheh for the documentary wrapped in June.

Because of that first fundraising campaign, the story got caught in four days right there on the land, with Edith and me and the community around us who actually live this work, teach it, carry it day to day.

Now comes the editing room, less glamorous than filming but where the real shaping happens. Going through all those hours of footage and interviews, we're finding the story settling into three parts: the Harmony Way, the land as teacher, and the circle and the table, the places people find belonging and where healing actually happens.

One more short trip is planned for the fall, to catch the land at harvest — seemed only right that the last footage comes from that season, not just the planting and growing.

Our hope is a film that is seen well beyond Eloheh, out to people looking for land, community, healing, and a way back into right relationship.

Help us carry this seed to harvest.

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Who We Support

Evangelical Covenant Denomination brought a leadership cohort to Eloheh

Who do We Serve

Families, College groups, Community Groups, Schools, Environmental Groups, Church Groups, Denominational Groups, and ministries. We offer extended weekend schools and longer retreats where people can work on the farm. We also spend part of the day and some evenings learning under the trees or around the fire with Edith and Randy Woodley and other elders at Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice.

Groups and individual leaders have found Eloheh Indigenous Earth Center an important space to find new and sustainable ways to lead.

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Eloheh is an interfaith, non-sectarian organization, with a long history of allowing people of all faiths, including churches and denominations, to learn an Indigenous worldview, decolonizing and indigenizing theologies, and new approaches to leadership and mentoring. Our spirituality begins with the land, where we demonstrate our relationship with the whole community of creation. At Eloheh we embody our spirituality and the learning happens in manifested and tangible ways.

Eloheh Supports a variety of Faith Leaders including pastors, churches, and denominational leaders

(from l-r) Cheyenne Mennonite Pastors, Several Portland Faith Orgs, ECC denominational leaders, under the oaks classroom

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GMO-Free – We have never grown GMO varieties, and have not farmed within range of GMO crops that would cross with ours. We are signatories of the Safe Seed Pledge.
Open-Pollinated – Only a few of our seeds are hybrids, and those are now heirloom.. That means you can grow them out for seed yourself and they will come back true-to-type. Become a seed saver!
Organically-Grown – Though not certified, we have always followed the National Organic Program standards. We know that treating ourselves well and treating the earth well go hand-in-hand.
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Open Source Seed Initiative - We will never patent a seed but allow it to be free for you or us ar anyone to pass down freely for many generations to come.

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Welcome To Eloheh

“Eloheh” (pronounced Ay-luh-hay) is a Cherokee Indian word meaning harmony, wholeness, abundance, and peace. To fulfill our mission to live in harmony with the land, using North American traditional Indigenous knowledge (TIK), wisdom and practices as a guiding model, we have created a center that embodies educating our whole selves including mind, spirit, and body within a whole eco-system. Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice focuses on developing, implementing, and teaching sustainable and regenerative earth practices. Eloheh Farm & Seeds seeks to be a model of regenerative agricultural, animal husbandry, and wild-tending systems that support human needs, while improving the earth and all creation inhabiting the web of life. Located in the northern Willamette Valley, in sight of the beautiful Coastal Mountain Range, we are grateful to be situated on the traditional lands of the Kalpuyan people and we take seriously our responsibility to be caring co-sustainers.

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Indigenous Center for Earth Justice
Eloheh creates a vital and informed community with spiritual consciousness. Consistent with our educational mission, Eloheh opens the land to groups seeking to learn more about plants, native plants, wild-tending, food & health, urban farming, climate change, and regenerative-sustainable farming as spiritual practice. We put a special emphasis on how our relationship with the land relates to a North American Indigenous worldview and practice, (TIK).

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Educating to Indigenize
By providing resources and opening the conversation to what it looks like to live in harmony with Creator and all creation, Eloheh provides a safe space for Indigenous and non-indigenous alike where we can learn, grow, and push boundaries. Dr. Randy Woodley has for many years actively taught through his classroom, books, podcasts, and conferences the process of moving from a Western worldview by Decolonization and Indigenization.

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Eloheh Farm & Eloheh Seeds
We believe that Eloheh seeds are among the best available, for the earth, for our family, and for yours. We owe it to ourselves and to future generations to protect organic, non-gmo, heritage crops and seeds. We seek are a model of regenerative agricultural, animal husbandry and wild-tending systems that support human needs while improving the earth and the whole community of creation. We make room for the many wild bird, animal, and plant species.

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ARTICLES & Presentations
Read and listen to more conversations revolving around decolonizing and indigenizing our theology, detaching from the Western Worldview, and applicable steps to walk it out.

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OUR BOOKS
Dr. Randy Woodley has published several books, all full of wisdom and communicated with grace. His ability to have the hard conversations with truth and intriguing stories draw you deeper to discover areas of growth for yourself and the Western world we live in.

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Are you on a journey of decolonizing and indigenizing your worldview? What are the roadblocks you’re encountering on the way? We need leaders that are not recreating old systems, but learning decolonized and Indigenized ways of leading. Historically Christians have been formed in white supremacy and settler colonialism- it is time for a new DNA in order to move forward in a sustainable and just way. Online cohorts are hosted by Dr. Randy Woodley.

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Lend a Hand, Learn a Lot
Eloheh educates on a range of topics, including racial equity and empowerment, community empowerment, ecological justice and Earth care, plant medicines, and Indigenous spirituality. Dedicated to our educational mission, Eloheh opens the farm for day visits to a variety of public groups seeking to learn more about plants, animal husbandry, wild-tending, and regenerative farming. We teach from an Indigenous worldview grounded in North American Indigenous traditions and practices. We are also committed to hosting and educating volunteers.

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Note: We reached a major milestone in March 2020, when Eloheh found a permanent home on ten acres of land in Yamhill, Oregon. We have been busy building the Eloheh Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm & Seeds, and we have raised the money for an agricultural and learning center, housing for students and volunteers, and we have established the farm, all with remarkable timing because of you! We are leaving the video below up so you can see how far we have come. Remember, and celebrate with us!

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