Self-sufficient Approach to Housing, Community & Habitat
Mountain Grove Habitats is a community-focused project built around a simple idea: housing can be created in a way that supports people, makes better use of existing materials, and respects the land around it.
Our vision combines building off-grid tiny-homes, ADUs, and traditional homes paired with repurposed shipping-containers used as a solar panel racking base, and providing space for power systems, workshops, utility rooms, and storage. Our vision is about supporting responsible land stewardship and shared community spaces within western Oregon. Our headquarters is on a property with forests, meadows, streams, and open space, and we want to faciliate others access to similar rural property and the lifestyle rural living affords.
Instead of treating housing, sustainability, and community as separate ideas, Mountain Groove Habitats brings them together into one connected approach.
The Mountain Grove Habitats Origin
Conventional housing development often requires significant new infrastructure development, large amounts of land disturbance, and development patterns that separate people from both their neighbors and the natural environment.
Mountain Grove Habitats was created to explore another way forward.
We believe housing can be practical without being excessive.
We believe sustainability equates to self-reliance.
We believe existing materials can be reused rather than discarded.
We believe people can have privacy without living in isolation.
And we believe development can happen while still leaving room for forests, streams, wildlife, and open land.
That philosophy guides everything from how homes are designed to where they are placed and how the surrounding property is cared for.
Repurposing Materials and Structures Into Homes
We use locally sourced timber, reused/restored materials where possible, and shipping containers where practical.
Shipping containers were originally designed to withstand harsh conditions and years of transportation, these steel structures are durable, adaptable, and well suited for reuse.
Pairing traditionally constructed dwellings with shipping containers is a cost-effective environmentally friendly off-grid housing solution/
Have Questions About the Project?
We’d be happy to tell you more about Mountain Grove Habitats and what we’re building.