Our Roots

Full Bloom was founded in 2005 by a group of friends who met as residents at Green Gulch Farm, a San Francisco Zen Center community. While there, they learned a lot about Buddhism, nonviolence, permaculture, sustainable living, and what it takes to for communities to thrive.

Their experiences at Green Gulch inspired them to create an intentional community devoted to cultivating resilient, sustainable, and loving relationships with the land, one another, and within themselves. After months of searching, they found 282 acres in the foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains where eleven of us now live and steward the land.

Just as the land needs ongoing attention and care, tending to our relationships is a primary focus at Full Bloom. We nourish our “ground of health” through community meals, games, and weekly meetings and sharing circles.

We also tend to our relationships by meeting conflict as an opportunity for personal and collective healing and transformation. In doing so, we not only strengthen the connections between us, but are supported to learn and grow into our most integrated selves.