Kinship Community is located in an unincorporated rural area about an hour from Seattle-Tacoma airport (SEA-TAC), and about a half-hour from Gig Harbor. It is about a mile from Penrose Point State Park, a beach park and campground on the Puget Sound. The land around us is largely forested with farms and weekend country homes. At one point, about 60 years ago, the Key Peninsula, the peninsula on which the Kinship Community is located, had the largest per acre concentration of black bear of anywhere in the continental US. In addition to the occasional bear, we have our share of wildlife here with bald eagles, bobcats, hawks, coyotes, opossums, rabbits, and fishers, among many others. Further back in time, the land was hunting grounds for the Squaxin Island Tribe and the Puyallup Tribe. Around 1900, early European settlers established an innovative intentional community in the town just north of us called Home. That local community structure was a magnet for a wide variety of free thinkers and innovators. We honor those who came before us, particularly the four-legged and two-legged, and we seek to create a special place where we all can renegotiate/realign our connection to life, each other, the land, and Great Mystery.