Interior of a cozy living room with fireplace, wooden accents, and decorative plates.

Permaculture Community

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Home-sharing
  • Urban

Founding year

  • 2000

What we do

Cultivate community, create a harmonious space, and put your hands in the garden at our beautiful Victorian house close to downtown. We value positive energy, clear and open communication, sustainability, permaculture gardening, cleanliness and healthy eating.

We are urban homesteaders. We grow dozens of different vegetables, fruits and flowers throughout our property-wide garden with a lovely pond, a large private backyard with a fire pit, and a great front porch for sunsets, conversation, and afternoon naps. We have laundry and some work space out back in our carriage house. We prefer to use the clothesline when it’s sunny.
We keep a clean house and are looking for a conscientious housemate who will participate and be involved in caring for the house and garden. You would be living with 3 others. We’re looking for a mature (regardless of age) person to join us and help shape our community by your presence.
We’re welcoming, LGBTQ+ friendly, laid back, creative and cooperative. We take care of our garden, our home, and one another—sharing meals, respecting one another’s differences and celebrating our shared interests.
This is a unique and charming house. There are 3 bedrooms and a nice bath upstairs as well as a small sitting area. Another bedroom, an office room, and bath are on the main floor. Both bathrooms have big bathtubs and the upstairs bath has a heated floor.
Great location: Congress Park, 13th and Detroit. Safe neighborhood with minimal traffic and free street parking on our block. Easy access to downtown. Walking distance to three parks, shops, restaurants, Cheesman Park, SIE film society cinema, Tattered Cover, Botanic Gardens, bus lines.
420 friendly. No tobacco. We want a cat. No dogs.
Rent is $850/mo. plus $50 for utilities and high speed internet.
If you love to garden, want to live sustainably and create community, live in a clean and beautiful house and help keep it that way, and if you want to live with other kind, responsible, spiritually conscious and healthy people, contact us.
We are excited to be urban homesteading and want someone who enjoys that.
Communication, collaboration and participation are the keys to community.
We want considerate people who will consider this their home and share in cleaning, gardening and care taking. We meet as a community on a regular basis.
There’s no TV here ( we do watch movies together sometimes). We’re an organic household; we like healthy food, mostly vegetarian, and share some meals. We are relaxed, friendly and easy going.
This is an opportunity to practice living in community and creating a happy cooperative household as well as participating with gardening and nutritious meals.
How people relate to each other and how they reciprocate is the basis of any society. We change the world by changing how we relate. Interactions based on kindness create peace.

Our Mission

conscious creative community, living sustainably and harmoniously, building relationships and a garden together

  • Purpose
  • Home-sharing
  • Community type
  • Coliving
  • Sustainability practices
  • Permaculture design

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2000
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2025
  • Started living together

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  • 4 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
4

How to join

Come and meet us to see if it’s a good fit. We are seeking two new members now.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Phone or email. Or text 303 999 1191

Primary decision-making authority

  • All Community Members Together

The whole membership decides collectively.

Decision-making process

  • Modified Consensus

Generally seek agreement, but have backup methods when consensus isn’t reached.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Conflict resolution approach

Rae, the homeowner, has created the framework by developing the space and garden, but wants this to be non-hierarchical and egalitarian, with each member of the community contributing and taking full responsibility.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • There is a labor obligation
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Regular fees: $10
Labor: Yes (4 hrs/week)
minimum 1-4 hours per week maintaining house and garden (as needed. more in summer, less in winter)
approximately $5-10/mo towards cleaning supplies

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Common House, Garden(s), Outbuilding(s), Fire pit, Internet

Frequency of communal meals

  • About once a week

Significant food acquisition practices

  • Locally sourced

Dietary restriction

  • People can cook and eat what they want in their own residence

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies
  • Substance use is prohibited in the community

Gender composition

  • Roughly balanced (no group over 60%)

Age demographics

  • Mixed adults (few or no children)

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a single individual, couple, or Family Trust

Setting

  • Urban

Within city limits with access to urban amenities and infrastructure.

Community type

  • Coliving

    Shared living spaces with private bedrooms/bathrooms and communal
    kitchens, dining, and social areas.

Sustainability approach

  • Permaculture design

Land practices in our community

  • The community practices permaculture

Self-produced energy

  • Up to 33%

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%

Local, organic, or fair trade food

  • Up to 33%

Food systems

  • Community garden

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Location

  • Colorado, United States

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Co-housing Unit For Sale in Portland Oregon

Light-filled 976 sq ft, 3-bedroom, 1-bath end unit in Columbia Ecovillage, Portland’sestablished cohousing community in the Cully neighborhood. With windows onthree sides, this ground-floor home gets natural light all day, even onPortland’s grey ones. The open living and dining area has warm hardwood floors and flows into akitchen with solid wood cabinets and granite counters. The dining roomwindows look straight into a native vine maple — a wall of green from springthrough fall. There’s good storagein the unit, plus an extra storage space in the community storage building.A ductless mini-split provides efficient heating and air conditioning, andthe plumbing was fully replaced in 2026. The primary bedroom has a full-width closet behind a sliding barn door; thesecond bedroom’s closet sits behind a pair of French doors. The thirdbedroom has no closet, which makes it a flexible room — guest room, office,or playroom. Step out the sliding glass door onto your own covered patio, which opens onto the community grounds: organic gardens, personal garden plots,greenhouses, a grape arbor, a bamboo grove, native plantings throughout, andtrees everywhere — including a truly massive old black walnut. The orchard alone is a reason to live here — to name a few:apples, pears, plums, figs, mulberries, chestnuts, walnuts, grapes,blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries, in several varieties each. A75,000-gallon rainwater catchment system keeps it all watered through thesummer. Kids have a playhouse, sandbox, small soccer field, a favorite climbingtree, and a parking loop where bikes can circle but cars can’t; adults havea workshop, garden shed, fire pit, quiet space and big community porches. The common hall is the heart of the village: a commercial kitchen anyresident can use, a kids’ play area, pool table and ping pong, and asoapstone stove that burns every winter evening. Residents can reserve it forevents for almost nothing. The historic farmhouse has guest rooms owners canbook for visiting family (about 30 nights a year). Shared laundry rooms(three washers and dryers) come with indoor drying racks and outdoorclotheslines, and there’s a craft room and a trade room where things you nolonger need find a new home next door. Potlucks, communitymeals, work parties, and acres of safe space for kids to roam makethis a rare chance to own a home and a neighborhood at the same time. Built in 1973 and fully remodeled in 2008–09 for energy efficiency and healthy indoor air — metal roof, HardiePlank siding, and standard community-built finishes throughout. Nothing to update, nothing deferred. The $522 monthly HOA coverswater, sewer, and garbage, plus the roof, siding, exterior paint, and allstructural maintenance — and it’s what pays for the grounds, the common hall,and everything else described above. And it’s close in: Cully’s cafés andparks are a short walk or bike ride away, the rest of Portland’s food,music, and neighborhoods are minutes beyond that, and the commute downtownor to the airport is easy by car, bus, or bike – 3.7-acre grounds with organic gardens, personal plots, greenhouses, native plantings, and mature trees (huge black walnut)- Orchard: apples, pears, plums, figs, mulberries, chestnuts, walnuts, grapes, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries- 75,000-gallon rainwater catchment feeds the gardens year-round- Workshop, garden shed, fire pit, quiet space, community porches  
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Restoring Choice - free online practice group, from Australia

Restoring Choice – free sessions and a practice group Many of us are less practised at three things than we realise: making clear requests, saying no when it isn’t a full yes, and hearing no without something getting damaged. These aren’t personality traits. They’re capacities that were trained out of many of us by ordinary structures – families where some needs were allowed and others weren’t, workplaces that reward overstretch. They can be trained back. Why this might interest people here Most communities teach communication after people arrive, once conflict has already surfaced. This works the other way round – building capacity first, and finding out what a group can do when most people already have it. What’s running Free 60-minute introduction, online. Same session each time; come to whichever suits. Register for intro session below: https://events.humanitix.com/reclaim-your-power-with-restoring-choice Four-week practice group, Tuesdays from 15 September, 6:30-8:00pm. One session a week, and at least one short written entry a day about a real situation in your own life. The writing is the actual work; the sessions support it. Sign up by Sunday 13 September. Register for practice group below: https://events.humanitix.com/restoring-choice-practice-group Everything is free. Times are Australian Eastern 6:30pm here is the early hours in most of the Americas. Worth checking before you register. Who it’s for No prior experience needed. It isn’t therapy, and I’m not a therapist. Many people find that looking honestly at how well they ask, decline, or hear a no is less flattering than expected. That’s common, and it isn’t a verdict on anyone. Run by Glenn Russo – 13 years practising this material, seven years co-facilitating an NVC practice group in Castlemaine. If you’re already living in community and would rather share what you’ve learned than join anything, I’d like to hear from you too.
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Cohousing ABQ: Life is better together. We're moving in during 2026. Last homes available!

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A call for pioneers, trade-builders, and the four Elemental Elders to construct our first cooperative village prototype.

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