SOLD

Stones Throw

Corbett, OR

$1,400,000

At the gateway to the Columbia River Gorge, Stones Throw brings together 22 acres of forest, meadow, water, natural building, craft, medicine, and community. Its next stewards arrive with something equally rare: years of practice in the art of living together.

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(503) 754-1892
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An aerial view of a lush farm with a curated field and blueberry plantations.

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Cultivated for Connection

Years of thoughtful stewardship shaped Stones Throw into both a home and a place of learning. Cultivated gardens and gathering spaces transition into meadow, forest, and the wild ecology surrounding Big Creek. Across the property, homes, studios, workshops, gardens, and naturally built spaces create an uncommon foundation for a life that can hold many things at once: privacy and community, making and growing, ceremony and everyday life.

Notable features include:

22 acres of gardens, meadows, forest, and Big Creek
Primary residence, two yurts, and additional living space
The Kinship natural building and ceremonial gathering space
The Ark with community kitchen, sauna, bathhouse, and gathering space
Established medicinal, edible, perennial, and annual gardens
Approximately 200 blueberry bushes and established fruit trees
Ceramic studio, woodshop, and barn

A stunning interior of Kinship natural building that blends natural colors and raw materials into an immersive room that celebrates the nature that surrounds it.

Story of Place

The Social Architecture

Buildings can support community. They cannot create it on their own.

The new stewards of Stones Throw understood that before they found the property. Before pooling their financial resources to purchase land together, they had already spent years living alongside one another, learning how to share space, divide responsibilities, maintain privacy and autonomy, and rely on one another in everyday life.

By the time Stones Throw came along, much of the social infrastructure was already in place.

“ This property presented a really special opportunity for a group of folks who were already committed to living their lives together. The combination of multiple dwellings, community gathering and event spaces, established gardens, meadows and wild forest meant that this community didn’t have to start from scratch—they got to dive into communal living with a 15-year head start..”

- Nathan Reimer, Buyers Representative

Stones Throw gave that existing social structure a physical home. Multiple dwellings allow for both proximity and privacy. Shared kitchens, gathering spaces, workshops, gardens, meadows, forest, and Big Creek create places to work, gather, make, grow, and care for the land together.

There is something regenerative in that model. At a time when independence is often equated with needing no one, co-buying offers another possibility: pooling resources without giving up autonomy and recognizing that resilience can grow from trusted relationships, useful skills, shared responsibilities, and knowing the people around us.

A lush front patio with a deck, fire pit, and lots of vegetation

a stunning arch-roofed house with natural tones in Stone's Throw, Oregon

A blue, arch-shaped house in Stone's Throw, Oregon

Perhaps one of Stones Throw’s clearest lessons is that some forms of resilience are built socially before they are ever built physically. Here, the architecture supports something the new stewards had already spent years creating together.

A shaded wooden deck overlooks the lush vegetation of Stone's Throw

Built from place

One of Stones Throw’s most distinctive spaces is the Kinship, a naturally built gathering place that has become known within the Pacific Northwest’s natural building community.

Perched on a sunny slope overlooking alder, maple, wild cherry, and fir, the two-story cabin connects to a ceremonial space in the round—an extraordinary study in building from what a place can provide.

Douglas fir timbers were harvested from neighboring land and largely left round. Wild cherry cleared from the building site was milled into flooring. Reclaimed joists came from an old barn. Local clay and sand were used for the earthen floor, alongside straw-clay, earth and lime plaster, cedar cladding, and a masonry heater.

Its circular roof draws from yurt construction, with a steel compression ring receiving the rafters above and a tension cable keeping the structure from pushing outward.

The Kinship was also built by many hands. Designers, carpenters, plasterers, natural builders, craftspeople, friends, and family contributed their knowledge, labor, and time to its making.

In that sense, it became something like a modern barn raising: a collective effort to create a space that would eventually hold ceremony, gathering, and community life.

Natural building often makes room for this kind of participation. People come together around the work, sharing knowledge, learning new skills, and contributing what they can. That history is still visible in the building today. The materials speak to the landscape around it, while the space itself carries the imprint of the people who helped bring it into being. It feels fitting that a place made for gathering was, from the beginning, built together.

Natural materials keep their original color and texture to create an immersive experience in Stone's Throw Kinship

Life List

Wildlife: Deer, foxes, coyotes, black bears, cougars, bobcats, owls, hawks, songbirds and many other bird species, bees, butterflies, insects, frogs, and salamanders.

Plants & Trees: Western red cedar, Douglas fir, alder, hemlock, vine maple, wild cherry, ferns, devil’s club, native wildflowers, and medicinal plants.

Garden Veggies & Fruits: Approximately 200 blueberry bushes, established fruit trees, berries, edible perennials, annual vegetables, and flowers.

The Five Roots
of Regeneration

● Health & Wellness

Life at Stones Throw keeps well-being close to the land. Gardens, meadows, forest, and Big Creek invite movement and time outdoors, while the sauna, bathhouse, movement space, studios, and medicinal gardens offer places for restoration, creativity, and care.

● Sustainability

The Kinship shows what it can mean to build from place. Nearby Douglas fir, wild cherry from the site, reclaimed joists, local clay and sand, straw-clay, natural plaster, and an earthen floor turn the surrounding landscape into part of the building itself.

● Community

Stones Throw was shaped for life together. Multiple dwellings, shared kitchens, gathering spaces, studios, workshops, gardens, and the Kinship create room for both connection and autonomy, while its new stewards bring years of experience sharing space, responsibility, and everyday life.

● Ecology

The property moves gradually from cultivated garden to meadow, creek, and forest. Fruit trees, berries, medicinal plants, cedar, fir, alder, hemlock, vine maple, and native understory create a layered landscape that supports wildlife across the 22 acres.

● Spirit

The Kinship gives spirit physical form: a circular room for ceremony and gathering, built from materials of the surrounding land through the work of many hands. Stones Throw reminds us that regeneration is not something we stand apart from, but a relationship we take part in.

The Five Roots are the foundation of what we believe contributes to a holistic environment that helps both people and planet to thrive.

Learn more about our framework in the Home as Sanctuary book.

Land Acknowledgement

Stones Throw lies within the ancestral homelands of Upper Chinookan peoples, particularly the Cascades, or Watlala, whose communities lived along this stretch of the Columbia River and throughout the western Gorge. The broader lower Columbia was, and remains, a homeland and gathering place for interconnected Chinookan peoples, including Multnomah and Clackamas communities.

Colonization profoundly disrupted these relationships through disease, dispossession, forced removal, and expanding Euro-American settlement. Agriculture, logging, commercial fishing, steamboats, railroads, roads, and eventually dams further transformed the Gorge and its living systems.

We acknowledge this longer history of human relationship with the land as part of understanding the place Stones Throw occupies today.

Proximity

Stones Throw sits in Corbett, where the Portland region gives way to the Columbia River Gorge. Farms, forests, rivers, trails, and Gorge communities are all close at hand, while Portland remains an easy drive away.