WILD PEACE SANCTUARY
ABOUT US
Wild Peace Sanctuary is a land-based, regenerative, sustainability-focused, and community resilience building project that combines land tending, care farming, and growing food, with educational events and therapeutic services. Located on the Central Oregon Coast, we are home to a small herd of wild horses and burros rescued from situations of abuse, neglect, and abandonment following their removal from public lands in the US.​​
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The land consists of 35 acres of wild meadows, wetlands, alder and elderberry woodland, steep forested ridges of Sitka spruce, hemlock, and Douglas fir, and a year-round creek that provides a seasonal home for the Coho salmon that spawn here. Our other wildlife includes black-tailed deer, beaver, kingfisher, salamander, black bear, blue heron, bobcats, and the Roosevelt elk, migratory birds and mountain lions who all pass through. ​
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In supporting our resident animals to live in balance on the land, they are helping in turn to improve soil health, increase biodiversity, and aid in wildfire prevention. With tens of thousands of wild horses and burros being rounded up each year in the US, many going to slaughter, we aim to shine a light on their uniquely beneficial presence on the land, and how, in learning their reciprocal ways, we can heal ourselves and each other too.
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We invite visitors to participate, learn, teach, share, contribute, and collaborate with us through internships, workshops, tours, workshops, retreats, and volunteering.
MEET THE TEAM
LARA LWIN TREADAWAY
Founder & Land Steward
Alongside tending land and caring for animals, Lara is a certified mediator, trauma-informed coach, somatic healing practitioner, and group facilitator whose work is centered around healing trauma and transforming conflict to build sustainable community. In 2012, she adopted a lifestyle of voluntary simplicity in response to the ecological crisis, and in 2015, she rescued an abused and neglected wild horse at risk of slaughter in a momentary decision that changed the course of her life forever. Seeing the wound of our separation from nature as at the root of humanity's suffering, Lara teaches others how to relate to themselves and others regeneratively and in natural reciprocity. She is passionate about inspiring others to reclaim their ancestral birthright as natural stewards of the land; and to discover the healing, peace, and freedom that comes from being in service to that which sustains us.
MARY FLETCHER BEAL
Landowner & Organic Farmer
Mary has been an organic farmer and gardener for more than three decades and is passionate about the need for local food security. She is glad to be able to support the rewilding and regenerative land projects, and healing between animals, land, and people, at Wild Peace Sanctuary. The founder of R.O.A.D. (Rural Organic Agricultural Development) for Change, an Oregon-based non-profit focused on developing organic agriculture on rural lands through education and research, Mary is proud to have protected the land she stewards from chemical pollutants for more than half a century. Cornell graduate, former English professor, author, and fierce advocate for women's rights, Mary helped to found the first women's safe shelter in Lincoln County on the Oregon Coast. She lives alone on the top of the hill with her St Bernard dog, Sid, and black cats, Gordon and Thelma.
SHANNON CRANDELL
Events Manager
Shannon feels a deep call to bring holistic healing and a sense of community into the world. She is an artist and a nature lover certified in permaculture design and ecovillage design. She loves qigong and is educated in practices that promote wellbeing and deepen awareness of the relationship between mind, body, and spirit. She is passionate about finding ways to express the interconnectedness of all living beings through the principles of mindfulness, permaculture, and compassionate communication. Shannon has been an avid volunteer for many projects around the world, including Habitat for Humanity, Lost Valley Educational Center, Alchemy School of Healing Arts, and now Wild Peace Sanctuary!
Chandler Passafiume
Volunteer Co-ordinator
Chandler is a writer, poet, and environmentalist with a background in conservation and wildfire protection and restoration. He is a graduate of the Holistic Sustainability Semester at Lost Valley Education Center, and has been working in leadership for non-profits and volunteer organizations for several years. He loves to find the common threads that connect the principles of Health, Beauty, and Spirit, and to communicate those ideas to others through writing, teaching, ceremony and holistic practices. Chandler is excited for his next grade in the School of Life here at Wild Peace Sanctuary.
“Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship. Just as all beings have a duty to me, I have a duty to them.”
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Robin Wall Kimmerer