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Wonderland Community Project was started in 2021 with a vision which explores the intersection between social justice and climate change resiliency. Situated on 120 acres in McHenry County (IL), it has a unique character including classic kettles & kames geography, a fen in the process of restoration, and many beautiful old-growth oaks.
As a community, we have dug out invasive roots, cut brush, and built the stable infrastructure at the heart of our project – bringing together our families’ commitment, our community’s volunteers, and a range of local land-based organizations with deep experience of ecosystem restoration.
We’re inviting you to join us as we continue to make our shared values real. Climate change is the ultimate both / and proposition, and we have established a model for combining full lives with building a rich community project that embodies adaptation as mitigation. Each family and community member brings their own passion and skill set, and our volunteers and local support have shown up to provide everything for the Land in the past three years – from transporting hundreds of bare root seedlings by Greyhound, to educating us on the proper use and care of traditional farm tools, to locating and donating critical resources like mowers, generators, and more.
By joining our Patreon you can expect to form a part of this growing community, sharing and learning in our continued progress built around shared values and a strong bias to action:
Adaptation | we actively seek to mix levity and gravity – constantly valuing improvisation, the circular economy, and shared decision-making [finding, mending, evolving]
Learning to Do | delivering real change requires questioning our own beliefs of individuality and urgency, and working together while respecting variant capacities [educating, changing]
Conviviality | we live with and among a broad community of folk, animals, and plants – and are consistently working to broaden land access and stabilize our ecology [sharing, planning]
Mitigation | we are implementing a fully articulated permaculture/regenerative plan combining aquaculture, agroforestry, and energy independence [mitigating, enabling]
