Over the past eight years, the PROUT Institute has collaborated with neighbors on building networks and projects to enhance food resiliency at the neighborhood level.

A model of sustainable living and Neohumanist lifestyle in the River Road neighborhood of Eugene, Oregon, USA. Dharmalaya serves as a center for personal and spiritual development, for demonstrating and teaching wholesome and ecologically sustainable living, for promoting the PROUT vision of social transformation, and for facilitating neighborhood and community development.

This one-acre lot off of River Road started as a mostly blackberry weed-lot five years ago. Since then, with much volunteer help, it’s been transformed into an inspiring garden, community gathering spot, and education site. Two custom built cabins and a pavilion shaded by a huge maple form a convergence space for community gatherings.