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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 2003)
1 T- lileb lies 1 reative afe S p e c ia ltie s ▼ Apple C in nam on F m c h Toast ▼ TJrts Rreaktast Sandwich friday Night Out ▼ Turkey O Ham Reuben Gay owned & operated 1 am to 3 pm daily Starts Sept 19, 2 0 0 3 Ends June 4 , 2 0 0 4 Only $ 1 6 per Week All Members go to the In archival papers some lesbians described the 147-acre O W L Farm as the place where they felt safe for the first time one woman described learning to use a tool one day and teaching another woman how to use it the next. In this early period hundreds of women passed through O W L Farm, and many chose to stay for months or years. Some les bians described it as the place where they felt safe for the first time. Some who lived on the land held outside jobs or conducted fund-raisers to support the community. Donations of $5 or $10 trickled in from women throughout the country to support this new vision of an open womens land. Other communities around the country began to spring up, mixJeling themselves after the trust. For a while in the 1990s, fewer and fewer women came to stay at the farm. A core group had left, and not as many travelers passed through. The hoard members eventually sur mised that one reason for the falloff was the difficulty of trying to live in a place where a new person could suddenly show up at the dcxir and command as much power as a woman who’d been living there for 10 years. The trust knew they had to do something or say gcxxlbye to OWL. In 1997 they changed the structure; OW L Farm still welcomes women visitors for up to a two-week stay, hut now there’s an approval process for becoming a permanent resident. G>ry and Rae Milecar currently live at OWL Fann with their newborn daughter, Maradaya. Cory had visited for years and always dreamed of living there. When she brought her new partner for a weekend visit last year, she smiles, “She wasn’t on the land more than two hours and sit id, ‘We’re moving here.’ ” Gtry is anxious to share her love of OWL with other visitors. “If you ever come out, you’ll know what I mean from the moment you step onto the land. You feel a real spiritual con nection with the land,” she asserts. Gtry and Rae welcome women to come and stay for a few nights. “There’s nothing like getting hack to the earth, coming hack to nature and the old way of doing things,” Gtry says. She invites women and their children to camp or stay in the main house. “I want people to know that there’s a reawakening at OW L— that she’s alive and well.” T he farm has a large organic vegetable gar den and an orchard with apples, pears, cher ries and grapes. A stream runs through the land, and wcxxls and meadows welcome women to explore nature. Ni Aodagain says the land is open to all women, hut it attracts 99.9 percent lesbians. Oregon Women’s Land Trust is playing host to a fund-raiser Garden Party from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 13. Besides a delicious lunch, you’ll find women from surrounding women’s lands with produce and crafts for sale and with helpful gardening tips. “It’s a wonderful place to come if you just want to get away,” notes Gtry. “If you want to escape the nish of the city, and you want a place to come and relax.” JH Breakfast anytimr • lunch from lOom «me to our ozy Corner. 503 23* 9 4«* » 1 7 2 1 St 7lhA*o 2 blocks south of Hawthorn All vegetarian. 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