live in a collective

Some community members have come and gone, but we’re still working on creating an Intentional Community/Ecovillage on our land. See IC.org and Cohousing.org, yes we Communitarians are out there. No, we’re not free love throwbacks escaping responsibility. No, we’re not talking cults that take away your freedoms and your money. We believe 100% that village living, cooperative neighborhoods and extended families (blood or chosen) are the way human beings are healthiest, happiest, most easily supported and most sustainable. Sharing resources, neighbors who are friends and family that you trust with your children, sharing capital and upkeep costs and labor in things like common greenspace, community gardens, hot tubs, power tools. What’s not to like?

in a very very very different way, the possibility of developing eventual adult co-housing. So I guess my difficult experiences didn’t completely burn the idealism out of me. (But then, I was 16 to 18 at the time… I’m 53 now… I should hope I’ve learned a couple of things in the intervening years).

I love the ecological and community sense of it, the shared resources… I also think it takes REAL MATURITY unless one is just experimenting with it for awhile.

something i’ve always wanted, and now that i have a family, probaly never will do. i’ve looked into it casually here and there but my life has just always gone down a different road than i intend.