• • • Oasis Gardens is an ‘inclusive’ endeavor. Oasis Gardens is a 501(c)5 non-profit volunteer project. It is supported by grants, donations and volunteers. The Robinson Estate and Cedar Bear Herb Farm provides the site, facilities, accommodations, etc.
• • • The Gardens Farm is an early Spring to late Fall seasonal work-stay and volunteer supported endeavor that immerses participants in shared ecological, sustainable, productive, and humane/spiritual/nature driven values in a gardens farm homestead style setting that incorporates bio-sustainable, herbal and productive self-reliant practices into a caring eco-friendly growing experience.
• • • In 2010 the founders, L. Carl & Jhoane Robinson, initiated the gardens farming project and in 2012 began setting up the project’s infrastructure and fully improved managed commons accommodations facilities that were completed in 2018. In 2015 Oasis Gardens & Learning Center was Federally approved as an agricultural designated 501(c)5 non-profit entity.
• • • Cedar Bear Herb Farm, where Oasis Gardens is located, sponsors Oasis Gardens & Learning Center via making its improved facilities and gardens/orchards infrastructure available for our hand’s-on experiential and learning programs and research projects that includes growing and working with high desert bio-sustainable herbs, produce gardens, micro orchards, and sustainable living.
• • • Location is a high desert (5,300 ft altitude) locale with fully improved facilities, supported & fully equipped gardens farming and learning center located on 35 secluded acres that includes fully outfitted and improved homestead/farmstead style facilities.
• • • Located within an hour’s drive of the magnificent Uinta Mountain Range’s 6 forested river drainages (Duchesne, Rock Creek, Lake Fork, Yellowstone, Uinta and Whiterocks) and wilderness trailheads, camp grounds, herb walks opportunities and weekend outdoor activities.
• • • Gardens farming fully outfitted with: a compact landscaping tractor and a mid-sized farm tractor and implements; two-wheel tractors and implements; high tunnel hoop houses; 4 season green house; cold frame growing boxes; open raised bed growing boxes, open air garden plots; fowl livestock (i.e. chickens/turkeys/ducks) growing/egg laying projects; pressure irrigated/sprinkled yards, gardens and open pasture; wooded pocket parks and lawn greens; fully outfitted tools shed; sustainable composting projects; numerous improved zoned gardens, micro orchard, deer-proof fenced gardens; etc.
• • • Participant amenities include: Warm weather outdoor outfitter’s kitchen and dining corral; cultural/spirit yurt; year round indoor ‘Commons’ facility (gathering room + kitchen galley + shower/utility room); 3 indoor sleeping/bunking cabins; outdoor 3 season line shed sleeping unit (sleeps 4); outdoor 3 season enclosed dry toilets and showers; improved multi-tent pad with large weather resistant 3-season Springbar® canvas cabins (accommodates numerous individuals); and 2 large campfire pits for evening gatherings.
• • • Projects agendas includes: NOP organic compliant bio-sustainable gardens and micro orchards incorporating vibrational technologies; planned-for expanded small livestock tending; herbal growing, use instruction and practices; nutrition and cooking; ecology-based philosophy and practices; energy and vibrational healing instruction and practices (incl. yoga & meditation), all in a hand’s on learning setting.
Seeking Ecological Harmony, Inclusivity, and a Caring, Meaningful Way of Productive Sustainable Living Within a Contemporary World.
• • • Work-stay and paid fee participant instruction numbers is limited and on a closed procedural basis based on for-value contributions, SME mentoring services and/or fee paid for instruction regarding Oasis Gardens & Learning Center programs and/or courses.
• • • Volunteer participation is open, however, a volunteer slot must be available since project and property facilities accommodations and ecological holding capacity keeps on-site participation to a limited number of individuals.
• • • Volunteer participation is based on a probation/proving period followed by the Founders and Volunteer Coordinator approving/inviting a person to participate/stay on the project on a season to season basis.
• • • In all instances, for property and participants safety, an individual will first be subjected to and must pass a background check and vetting process to be considered for contributory, volunteer or for fee participation.
• • • Visitors welcome with conditions, however, please make prior arrangements for visiting.
• • • The safety of residences, Cedar Bear employees and Oasis Gardens personnel and volunteers is of primary concern. We do NOT politicize Covid or the ongoing and lingering pandemic situation. It is real and has had devastating consequences to individuals, families, communities, the nation and economies, therefore science, common-sense health and hygiene practices and vigilant preventative criteria to this serious health and life threatening condition are taken very seriously and imposed accordingly.
• • • While the founders strongly recommend being vaccinated/inoculated for Covid, especially given that world-wide statistics and feedback are clearly showing that 80%+ of new Covid cases are coming from unvaccinated individuals, and over 90% Covid hospitalized are unvaccinated, and 97%+ ICU cases for Covid are unvaccinated. The math is very clear on what’s happening and why. However, the founders and staff of Oasis Gardens respect the right of an individual to choose not to be vaccinated, but only if such individuals also take the continuing precautions to keep from getting infected and in turn infecting others, meaning that caring for others health, well-being and lives is of paramount importance. The rights of an individual to do or not do something can only apply to them personally and cannot be allowed to put others at risk, whether in closed quarters or in the open. This is the bedrock of a civilized society – to selflessly care about others and not put them at risk. Therefore, the following criteria for visiting the farm and its projects are mandated and not to be varied from in any instance.
• • • To enter property/premises a visitor must first present a valid verifiable proof of having had ‘current’ Covid vaccine/inoculations, and if non-vaccinated/inoculated must, within no more than 48 hours of visit, have received verifiable negative test results for Covid and present valid and verifiable test documents of same prior to entering the property/premises. If unvaccinated visiting individual leaves the project/premises for any period of time they will be required to take another Covid test for negative results to re-enter the premises, unless otherwise arranged for. Regardless of vaccination/inoculation status, all visitors will be required to wear an appropriate face mask, over the nose, while on the property/premises.
• • • Walk-on visitors will be turned away without prior vetting, approval, scheduling and proof of current Covid vaccinations and/or current negative Covid test as per above criteria.
One person or partnership has ultimate authority.
A single person, couple, or small group makes most major decisions.
Primary authority rests with the community’s founder(s) or designated leader(s).
Oasis Gardens & Learning Center and its projects, are supervised by a Volunteer Coordinator. Day-to-day gardens farm infrastructure and maintenance are supervised by a Farm Foreman. Property, farm, projects and personnel rules, policies and standards are established by and overseen by the founders of, and the Board of Directors, of Oasis Gardens & Learning Center.
Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.
Labor: Yes (25 hrs/week)
• • • Oasis Gardens & Learning Center is an agricultural designated 501(c)5 Non-Profit endeavor. It’s affiliate, Cedar Bear Herb Farm is a for-profit endeavor and sponsors the site, its facilities, room & board, and gardens for Oasis Gardens & Learning Center programs.
• • • Oasis Gardens & Learning Center is NOT an employment based endeavor for its instructed participants, volunteers, fee paying-based or work-stay programs participants. It is a volunteer and student fee paying based gardens farm educational and instructional learning center and bio-sustainable research projects that is a work-stay managed homestead/farmstead-style participant driven endeavor.
• • • Any proceeds and/or outputs derived from the non-profit research projects are handled according to provisions of the 501(c)5 organization bylaws via its Board of Trustees determinations.
• • • Property/community and its care, cleaning and upkeep of Oasis Gardens & Learning Center projects are volunteer, student fee paid based, and work-stay participant based.
• • • Oasis Gardens & Learning Center is provided with on-site domiciling & provisions for meals and relevant instruction/education for on-site domiciled work-stay volunteer and fee paying student/education participants in exchange for daily task-oriented projects meeting a specific daily hourly and performance standard.
Garden(s), Greenhouse(s), Vehicle Share, Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Outdoor Kitchen, Tractor & Farm Equipment, Fire pit, Internet
Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.
Cooperative housing primarily for students, often with shared chores,
meals, and democratic decision-making.
Integrated communities designed around ecological principles with sustainable living practices.
Connecting people and communities through an intentional online marketplace
A residential project: people live here as their primary home.
An institution, business, network, or project that isn’t a residence (e.g. a learning center, farm, or network with no one living there full-time).
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