The 20-acre permaculture site is roughly half wooded with garden spaces carved out and half is rich bottom land.

The BZ Permaculture Farm Collective (BZ Farm)  is situated at the Bezaleel Israel Eco-Village. Refer to the navigation menu for links related to the farm.

Is access to land preventing you from starting your own permaculture homestead?

If so, you should consider joining the Bezaleel Israel Eco-Village.

Come visit the farm! Maybe stay.

Unique Regenerative Farming/Permaculture Apprenticeship Opportunity
Working, Off-the-grid, 20-acre
Diversified Permaculture Farm in Northeast Washington State.
In Transition to an Agricultural Land Trust/Eco-village,
Permaculture Education Center.
Long-term residency potential.
Link to Application Form

Start Living Your Permaculture Lifestyle NOW!

The Bezaleel Israel Eco-Village in far northeast Washington is named after the landowner, affectionately known as "BZ," who has put more than 30 years of effort into developing these 20 acres to support a self-sufficient Permaculture Community Land Trust. 

This could be your new home!

Please don't let the name of the Eco-Village put you off. BZ adopted the name Bezaleel Israel when he joined the Love Family commune more than 50 years ago. All the Love Family members shared the surname Israel and it was often referred to as "Is Real." While the commune is no more, a good number of former Love Family members continue to use their communal surname Israel to this day. We emphatically do not condone the Zionist genocide perpetrated by the nation of Israel against the Palestinian People. We are, however, honoring the 30-plus years of work that BZ put in creating this permaculture homestead from scratch.

A regular at Rainbow Gatherings, Barter Fairs and Healing Gatherings over many years, BZ is an original and truly a "Jack of All Trades." All he wants in life is to help young people to learn how to survive in these times when our survival is at risk. Creating the Eco-village here is a big part of that.

The land is in the process of becoming a permaculture community land trust to be preserved as a peopled conservancy for generations to come. As of January 27, 2026, the Bezaleel Israel Eco-Village is a Washington state Mutual Benefit Organization. The next step in creating the land trust will be filing the Easement and Declaration of Covenants with the county that will establish the trust. We hope this will happen this year.

It’s a small village right now, but we are linked with a growing network in our local region including the Inland Northwest Permaculture Guild, the Northeast Washington Permaculture Guild, the Huckleberry Range Community Collective, Uhuru, Earth Rising Sanctuary, Friends of the Trees Society, the Permaculture Conservation Trust, Northwest Permaculture Convergence, Spokane Permaculture, our volunteers, our customers and our many friends. 

We are seeking folks to join us at the Bezaleel Israel Eco-Village in Northeastern Washington State. After a successful 60-day trial period a new person becomes a Village Collective Member with full and equal authority within our horizontal, power-sharing organizational structure.

Help is needed to keep building up the infrastructure to support the Eco-village as well as workers to run the Collective Farm. Help is welcome in the form of skilled and unskilled labor. Casual visitors can volunteer, learn and earn a stipend). Village Collective Members can earn income by joining the Farm Collective thru revenue sharing as self-employed farmers. Village Collective Members might also have outside jobs or create enterprises based at the eco-village.

We can also organize educational work parties and workshops where folks can learn homesteading and permaculture skills.

The kinds of work we do involve:
Growing fruits, vegetables, herbs and seeds, raising livestock for food, fiber and service, plant and tree propagation, food forest development, haying, direct marketing; all using permaculture and regenerative agriculture methods
Water conservation
Sustainable woodlot management (tree felling, bark stripping, timber milling, firewood gathering, biochar production)
Pole construction, framing, green building
Fencing
Off-grid energy production
Equipment use and maintenance
Earth restoration and more

We operate the BZ Permaculture Farm Collective. It's a Washington State non-profit mutual benefit society-- a non-profit farm! Our produce is all "permaculturally-grown."

The property is divided into four main sections. About 4.5 arable acres on the east end of the property is on the valley floor which is part of one of the largest peat bogs in Washington. The century-old drainage ditches have been regularly maintained making cultivation possible. Reed canary grass is the predominant species of grass there.  A lower bench west of the bottom land at a slightly raised elevation consists of about 3 arable acres with some of it deer-fenced for market gardens.  Hay and mulch is harvested from the bottom land and the lower bench. The upper bench (approx. 1 acre arable) consists of a small dwelling (that can be enlarged) with attached year-round greenhouse, solar power and wood/solar hot water, a 2000 sq. ft. shop, a 22' x 54' hoophouse, a duck pond, a swimming hole, an orchard (3000 lbs. yield) and two market gardens of about 1/3 acre each. There is a flock of Ancona ducks and two Nubian goat doelings joined us in April 2024. The last time the property was logged commercially was 75 years ago and our forest stands out in aerial photographs compared to surrounding properties all recently logged. The land is blessed with aprrox. 9.5 acres of mixed species cedar forest. 

The farm is off-grid and has power provided by solar panels to charge the battery banks and, when needed, gasoline generators. As we increase our solar capacity, or construct a wood-gassifier, we can decrease our fossil fuel use.

The land has extensive gravity and solar-pumped irrigation infrastructure with adequate water for large plantings and is well suited for small numbers of livestock to be raised for sale and sustenance.

The main limitation presented here is our far-north location. That makes for a short growing season and harsh winter living conditions. The level of self-reliance required is not for everyone, but the land is beautiful, productive and much infrastructure is already in place. Another limitation is currently limited dwelling space. We currently do have one very large 5th-wheel trailer available but wintering in it might be challenging even with a woodstove in it. Folks with construction skills could build an addition to the existing main dwelling or an auxilliary dwelling. Basically, new arrivals will need to be self-sufficient and meet their own shelter, energy and much of their own food needs beyond what the Village and Farming Collectives can provide. 

We align closely with the principles of the International Peasants’ Movement
viacampesina.org,
Peasants for Climate Justice
peasantsforclimatejustice.org
and The Poor People's Campaign
poorpeoplescampaign.org

The future is uncertain. For those interested in finding a place to put down roots and ride out the storm, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us.

We are looking for mature, responsible, self-motivated, open-minded, unprejudiced,  non-violent, communicative, compassionate, debt-free folks who have experience in regenerative agriculture, have a firm grasp of permaculture principles and practices, experience in collaborative group living and a love of voluntary simplicity and Earth care. Anyone with those qualifications, or wishing fervently to be able to develop those qualifications, can apply. We highly encourage interested young people to apply. We value the cultivation of permaculture values in our lives and livelihoods and try to illustrate by example their benefits to the greater society.

Potential Collective Members should have had experience with or eagerness to try simple, rural, outdoor-oriented living and the work ethic that goes along with it and be prepared to survive in a place where the climate can range from well below freezing in winter to summer temperatures over one-hundred degrees for days at a time. Shared kitchen and bathroom facilities are available in the main dwelling. Various potential income sources exist.

Interested??

Let us know by answering two short questions on our application form.

Link to Application Form

Visitors please make arrangements in advance.
collective@bzfarm.org

Thank you,

The Bezaleel Israel Village Collective