This is Susie's home.
Help us finish it.
The walls are up. The windows are in. Wildflowers are already blooming around it. But Susie can't move in yet — she still needs a roof, a floor, a kitchen, and everything that makes a house a home. We need $30,000 to get her there.
She danced.
She grew things.
She gathered people.
Susie Lawing raised four children on a forested ridge in Cohasset, California — a place the family called Enchanted Ridge. For 25 years she hosted dance retreats, yoga, and community potlucks here. She grew her own food, preserved her own pantry, and lived close to the earth — rooted in community, in the land, and in the rhythms of a life she built with her own hands. Her son Patrick and her friend Terrance lived on the land with her.
A world
unto itself
Enchanted Ridge was a world unto itself — a main house, a second dwelling, a great barn turned dance and yoga studio, a sauna by the pond, a pool, a brick patio shaded by fruit trees, and a bread oven hand-built by musician Jonathan Richmond. It was a living, breathing place. Susie tended it alongside her son Patrick and her dear friend Terrance.
"If you have been blessed to experience this land, you know how magical a place Enchanted Ridge was."
Cohasset soil is special.
One hundred feet of ash.
We need to remind people —
the dirt, the soil,
the deep roots of our trees.
The Park Fire — arson-sparked — destroyed every structure in hours. Susie was uninsured. She lost everything with nowhere to go.
She went back.
And planted flowers
in the ash.
Susie returned to Enchanted Ridge while the ash was still fresh. She planted a garden. She harvested vegetables from seedlings pushing through burned soil. She said: gather, tell stories, get back to the land. Her children — Jessica, Theresa, and Patrick — rallied the world. 461 people answered. The ridge is alive again.
Look what's already been built.
Thanks to 461 donors, the house is over halfway there. These milestones are complete:
Foundation
Framing
Siding
Windows