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Northwest Communities Seeking Members
The Northwest Intentional Communities Association offers no endorsement of the communities listed on this page or anywhere in any or our publications. You need to carefully check them outyourself. We do not verify any information communities provide us, we simply publish it as we get it. For more information about finding the right community there are good articles in the Intentional Communities Directory or in Communities Magazine.
email Craig for additions or changes to your community's listing We provide free listings for NW communities seeking new members, or who have homes for sale or spaces for rent, but they must truely be connected to intentional communities. We do not list properties that could, potentially, be turned into a community. |
New Farming Co-operative seeking members <posted 1/8/08> |
NEW ECOVILLAGE OPPORTUNITY – AGRICULTURE BASED <posted 1/8/08> |
Columbia Ecovillage
Portland, Oregon
We are a forming cohousing community on 3.75 acres in NE Portland. Our developer will be renovating 5 existing two-story buildings with 37 apartments. The project includes an established organic farm and orchards, and a 1912 farmhouse for common spaces.
Our community is now open to new members; please see the web site for details of the membership process. Our expected move-in date at this time is Fall 2008.
web address: columbiaecovillage.com <posted 12/18/07> |
Clearwater Commons in Bothell, WA seeking members <posted 12/1/07> |
Unit for Sale at Winslow Cohousing We have a lovely 1 bedroom and loft unit. Re-modeled kitchen, and bathroom. Fir trim throughout. Great light, high ceilings, and balcony. Bamboo floors, tile in kitchen and bathroom. Radiant floor heat. Walk to ferry, library, downtown, pool, market, and high school. Great for a single person or a family. Present occupant lived here with 2 boys. Efficient use of 550 sq. feet. $225,000. The seller’s name is Eric Hoffman. Photos and more information can be found at winslowcohousing.org . <posted 11/26/07> |
Straw Bale Cottage Available
The Maxwelton Creek CoHousing Community is seeking abuyer for this unique cottage, which has been featured in several publications, the Whidbey Island Green Home Tour and the Whidbey Island Alternative Home Tour.
The spacious 844 square foot cottage has a high ceiling, multiple skylights, and a hand-sculpted multi-paned view window. The space includes a 288 square foot bedroom loft over the kitchen and bath. There are many artistic touches, including hand sculpted niches and shelves, whimsical tiling and creative designs on exterior walls. The gardens (one-third of a acre) are richly planted with trees, shrubs, flowers and herbs. Property includes a "sun hut", made of alternative building materials, a dining pergola and an arched entry trellis. Home could be expanded with the 1500 square foot limit stated in the community's covenants.
This house is to be sold as a primary residence. Purchase includes membership in the cohousing community, with rights to and shared responsibilities for the grounds and facilities of MCC. This includes approximately 18 acres of common land, licluding woods, barn, garden, orchard, fields and a year-round stream. Homes are clustered in order to preserve as much open space.
Ongoing participation in meetings and community process are expected. Members are expected to participate in two workdays a month and to perform other maintenance tasks, as chosen by themselves, outside the formal workdays. Margaret Moore, the owner, is asking $288,00 purchase price. Contact her at 360-321-5210 for further information. See http:/ww2.whidbey.net/mcelwain |
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is an adult-focused forming community on land (5 acres) immediately adjacent to Songaia Cohousing (38 people in 15 homes on 11 acres) near Bothell, WA. The group is in the earliest stages of forming and is open to new founding members. The New Earth Song link provides the most complete public description of the project, including how to learn more. <posted 11/5/07> |
SOLD - Opening in the Established Wise Acres Community - SOLD
The Wise Acres Cooperative Association is a small intentional community in the rural waterfront town of Indianola, Washington. Since its foundation in 1990 the community has been home to 7-9 families, including kids, parents, grandparents, and a smattering of passers by. Nine home sites are individually owned, but members share ~13 acres of forested greenbelt perched above Port Madison Bay, a large and productive vegetable garden, fruit orchards, a hot tub, and a community house. We also share a couple group dinners each week, and the work and play that comes with all of that. Please visit www.wise-acres.org to learn more about the current opening, contact <REMOVED> FYI: this listing was the most expensive home sold to date via a FREE NICA listing. |
Community Seeking Land Group of 8 adults and one child (so far) seek Seattle, in-city property/ies for collective living. A large house, small apartment building or adjacent properties might fit the bill. Our criteria include: Please contact coho@hive-mind.com if you think you might be able to help us find such a place. For more information on our quest: <posted 5/28/07> |
SHE FARM GOES COOP -- RENT TO OWN COOPERATIVELY Contact Jokhanah shefarm@ earthlink.net or 206 721-3306 |
Cascadia Cohousing: Inviting new members to help us plan and build
cohousing in Seattle. We are a committed group of folks with 4 households and 3 associate households so far. We are looking to build a cohousing community within the Seattle city limits, a community grounded in our values of <posted 11/09/06> |
Bartimaeus Cohousing at Meadow Wood We’re the latest addition to the cohousing scene in the Puget Sound area, and are looking for new members for our four remaining units. Construction is nearly done on our 7-acre wooded site, with adjoining protected wetlands. Several families have already moved in, and we’d love to have you join us! The six new buildings contain 24 self-contained condominiums, ranging from 1,200+sf 2-bedroom flats to 1,800sf 4-bedroom townhouses. The large common house includes a great room for meals and activities, a large kitchen, library, kid’s play room and recreation room. Other common areas will include lots of shared porches and courtyard space, the existing barn (for crafts, car repairs), outdoor game court, garden space and quiet walking paths in the woods. We are a faith-based, public service-oriented community. One of the units will be set aside for temporary (6-12 month) housing for families in need, and the common house will be a venue for events (including 12-step meetings) supporting the general Bremerton community. There is no requirement for members to adhere to a particular creed. We are not a church or a denomination. All decisions are made by consensus. We are located in East Bremerton, Washington, convenient to shopping, local bus routes and the ferry to downtown Seattle. For more information, please contact John Parsons (parsons@seanet.com, 206-780-3840) or visit our web site: www.bartcommunity.org. <posted 8/14/06> |
Newberry House
Portland OR 503-286-3700
Fledgling community on seven acres, 20 minutes from the center of Portland is looking for new residents/land mates.
This "simplified co-housing" -- a little simpler, a little less middle class looking, a little more rural, a little more queer, a little more alternative thinking & feeling...
Personal space includes a large room detached from the main house. The main house is mostly common space, and there is seven acres of land that's mostly forest, with some open garden and orchard..
Location: at the NW edge of Portland, off Hwy 30 past Linnton (before Sauvie Island). Near the north entrance to Forest Park, fairly close to St. Johns, NW Portland, and PCC Rock Creek.
The Household. This is a new household. I've owned the property for over a year, renovating, clearing out and building, and not it's time for other people to come live here. This is a cooperative household, into sustainability, living simply on the land, shared organic food and some shared cooking/meals, shared care of the place.
There is also the potential for building a small structure, and becoming a co-owner of the land.
Who's here now. I'm Carl, 46, gay guy, kinda alternative. There is also 1 cat, 2 sheep.
If you're looking for a place with a combination of shared living and privacy, a rural feel with land but close to the center of Portland (20 minutes) an emphasis on simple sustainable living, and where you can hear the bird, and see the stars, drop me a note.
You will find a lot more infrmation at: http://homepage.mac.com/carlvz
or contact Carl at carlvz@mac.com or 503-307-0429 |
Duwamish Cohousing: RentalsTwo units are expected to be available for rent soon. Check back here for more info. <Posted 3/10/06> |
Trillium Hollow Cohousing <Posted 11/04/05> |
Suite or Wing in La Tierra Community Available <Posted 10/3/05> |
Winslow Cohousing <Posted 8/9/05> |
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Agate Acres Seeking friendly alternative minded single individuals, males or females, who have a strong desire and goal to live as a large family cooperative community and to join us in creating a self-reliant neighborhood on our 30 acre organic Farm. The farm is paid for, you are invited to share in the benefits of the beginning stages. We are looking for volunteer partners to help us construct and rebuild our buildings and to help us develop a large, happy family neighborhood. Prefer someone who is computer literate who help us advertise on the internet. We have a passion for fun-celebration and fellowship and enjoy like minded others interested in community. We have 360 degree views of Siskiyou and Cascade Ranges. Highway I-5 interchange is 10 minutes away. No flakes please. Write to us your interests and community desires. For complete details of our home send a SASE. to Agate Acres/Re-village P.O. Box 3308 Central Point, OR 97502 |
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Alpha Farm Alpha Farm is a close-knit extended family style community on 280 acres in the Oregon Coast Range. We seek to honor and respect the spirit in all people and in nature, to nurture harmony within ourselves, among people and with the Earth. Group process is a strong point; we meet regularly for business and sharing. All income and resources are held in common. Members and residents work on the farm, in community-owned businesses and in free-lance professional work. Founded in 1972, we are currently actively seeking to expand our core members; we are especially interested in having families and others join us who have experience in cooperative endeavors, group process, sustainable agriculture and forestry, small business management, construction, education and conference or workshop organizing. |
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Aerious-YewWood
Deadwood, OR 541-964-5341 Aerious-YewWood seeks a few special people to help round out our small rural community and help on the work of promoting and presenting our gatherings and workshops and summer life skills program. We are located 50 miles from Eugene and Corvallis, surrounded by spotted owl habitat and National forest on a salmon spawning creek. Having an independent income source and earth plane skills coupled with avid interest in participating in our earth spirit based events and focus is essential. Call 541-964-5341, email aerious@casco.net |
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Seattle WA (425) 778-4628 info@AnandaSeattle.org We have 42 residents on 5.5 acres near in rural Lynnwood in a 32-unit apartment unit. We are part of the Ananda family of communities which includes the original Ananda Village (900 acres, 300 members, Nevada City, CA), and Sacramento, CA, Mountain View, CA, Beaverton, OR, and near Assisi, |
Apex Belltown Co-op Seattle WA (206) 956-0275 Imagine living in the heart of downtown in a
collective founded in 1982. You could do your shopping at Pike Place
Market and watch sunsets over the Sound from our rooftop garden. You could
participate in weekly chores, occasional work parties, and monthly general
meetings--and learn a lot about yourself and what it takes to live in a
community of diverse and lovely souls! We are 23 + poets, musicians,
childcare workers, bus drivers, gardeners, bike messengers, graphic
artists, editors, writers, people who work for the city, activists,
students of all varieties, legal secretaries-old and new souls-and
all of the above. We have lived at the Apex anywhere from 2 months
to 12 years. We range in age from 2 ½ to somewhere over 50. Many of us are
in our 20s and 30s. We value creativity, commitment, independence
and community. Lots of us are involved in larger community projects
including but not limited to the Belltown P-Patch, the Vera Project, the
Richard Hugo House, Food Not Bombs, the Independent Media Center and the
Belltown Paper. |
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Cascadia Commons |
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Dapala Farm We are an intentional community that has created a sustainable Technologies Educational Center. Our objective is to help people evolve beyond dependence on a culture that is dominated by competition, consumerism and fear. Towards this end, we live examples of self reliance and cooperating with nature. We teach the skills, lifestyle alternatives and options that can help people actualize self reliance and sustainability. Our programs include workshops, and internships in organic gardening, alternative energy and appropriate technology. We also seek members for our community. We practice consensus, creative conflict resolution and are donating land to a community land trust. Send your correspondence to: Dapala Farm, E.15014 Laurel Rd, Elk WA 99009. |
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DUMA COMMUNITY DuMa is a stable, urban community,
located in Eugene OR. We formed in 1988 based on five values: ecological
responsibility; personal growth; diversity; equality; and community. Daily
examples of our values include growing vegetables, recycling, looking at
gender and class issues, co-counseling, Naka-Ima, consensus decision making,
and rituals. Visitors often remark that we are
neat, well-organized, and accountable to our values. We eat vegetarian meals
together, nurture our relationships with one another, and share the joys and responsibilities
of owning a home and yard large enough for eight people. We share expenses
but not our incomes. We seek members who are compatible with us, have substantial energy to contribute, are emotionally and financially stable, and who are looking for a close group of people to grow with. Our membership process helps us determine who will thrive and be happy here. If you are interested, please tell us a little bit about yourself, and send your correspondence to: DuMA 2244 Alder ST Eugene OR 97405, or email us at: dlamp@efn.org ,or call 541-343-5023. |
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Ekone Ranch If you are looking for Sacred land with well established purpose,check us
out. We have been on the land nearly 30 years raising horses and now buffalo.
We do Horse Summer Camps for children, organic gardening, Eco-forestry and
much, much more. Have a look at our web site and if you are not interested,
you may know someone that is! Email Address: raymitchell@gorge.net |
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Lichen Are there any folks out there primarily interested in caring for the natural environment who would like to live long-term in a forest community? Develop your own idea of a viable cottage industry! (There are financial loans available to help get you started!) Cooperate with others to maintain a rustic, low-income, low-key life, sharing maintenance of trails and facilities, common environment. Share in decision making, community, coop, and land trust. Write about your hopes and interests to: Lichen, P.O. box 25 Wolf Creek, OR 97497 |
Elk WA Richardkn2000@yahoo.com
The Mountain Wildflower Community is
located on 20 acres of forested land 30 miles north of Spokane, Washington
near the Pend Oreille County line. We
have developed an Intentional Community around a rural lifestyle and strive
to maintain an ecologically and environmentally sound lifestyle. We strive towards self sustainability both
financially and nutritionally. we are
off the grid and use generators for electrical power when needed. We have a small business (the Mountain
Wildflower Company) and we sell honey, ,honey products, herbs, herbal
products and gift that either we or our friends make. At present we have one residential member
and one non resident member. We are currently seeking others who are
interested in a rural lifestyle to join us.
We have a large house (partially completed), two 20' travel trailers for
guests and 6 houses near Spokane that are used as rental income. They would be ideal for people who are
interested in a transitional process to the country and a rural lifestyle. We currently have a website with photo's
of the land WWW.MOUNTAINWILDFLOWER.COM We have many years experience living in the
mountains and have only recently begun searching for others to share our
lifestyle. Whether you are interested
in joining us or in seeing how a rural lifestyle operates, please contact us
for more information. Rich The Mountain Wildflower Community P O Box 63 Elk, Wa 99009 |
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Spirit Journey Spirit Journey is a small evolving extending family-like community near Ashland, OR. At present we are 3 folks, 3 dogs, 1 cat, 2 ducks and hopefully soon, 2 llamas and a horse. We are graced on this 1 ½ acre land with fruit trees, herb and vegetable gardens, wood sauna, medicine wheel, meditation space, sacred fire pit, dance space and music/library room. We hold musical healing gatherings on the 2nd Wednesday evening of each month and offer other types of healing, musical playshops and concerts throughout the year. We are a loosely knit group and each person holds their own financial means. We support each others spiritual growth, beliefs, and similar lifestyles. We hold monthly community meetings and often have spontaneous ceremonies. Housing is 2 bedrooms in the main house with a third in an outdoor space. We all share kitchen and 2 bathroom facilities. For more info contact us. |
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Snohomish County, WA Are you interested in living
cooperatively? Want to share dinners
and activities, and have your own private
space as well? We may have just
what you're looking for! We're a couple, a single, and a cat,
living in a group house in the
Sharingwood cohousing community just outside of Seattle. We're
close to an amazing variety of cultural and educational centers, and
surrounded by the natural beauty of forest, gardens, and creek. It's easy
to find a good salary here, or take advantage of the low expense of
cooperative living to drop out and finish that novel or painting you started.
Our newly constructed house is designed for four adults, with four bathrooms,
two kitchens, chemical-free hot tub, and many other nice features. We're looking for a sociable, active
woman, age 30s to 50s, who's willing
to be an active member of our household.
See our website at
http://www.starsighted.com/grouphouse for photos and details. |
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Teramanto Community Non-profit Teramanto Intentional Community, located off semi-rural May
Valley – 15 miles SE of Seattle – is seeking potential residents/members.
Members direct the development and operations through consensus, without
direct ownership. Members invest (meaning no-interest loan or gift) what they
wish. Low monthly dues. (Rent) Sometimes labor-intensive. Cottage industry
incouraged. Each of our two, 3-story shared houses are on their own 1/3 acre
lot. Our 1/1/2 acre soft-rolling pasture is suited for organic farming, play
and experiments in alternative building-construction and energy sources. Both
houses require major repair and new construction and energy sources. Wish
list: Immediate need for large investment (meaning: gift or loan) to settle
legal affairs and possible purchase of adjoining land. 10217
148th Ave. SE Renton WA
98059 425-255-9573 or
425-227-7248. |
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"Vashon
Village" Vashon Island, WA e-mail: getmelissa@uswest.net We are looking for creative housemates to
form an eco-friendly co-op to purchase land and develop a co-housing
eco-village on Vashon Island. (location is a 15 minute ferry ride to Seattle)
The founding member is an artist/designer/activist/entrepreneur. If you or
someone you know might be interested in such a project, please contact me via
e-mail. (Please be between the ages of 29-40, responsible, |
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WeMoon JOB OPENINGS in Womyn's Publishing. Live/work in spirited lesbian land community. Help produce We'Moon: Gaia Rhythms. Seeking We'Moonager for long-term leadership position. MacComputer, administrative, organizational, creative publishing experience. Also looking for a part-time, seasonal office worker "Co-Chief" (Sept.-Feb.) and a financial/business planner "Biz Whiz" (part-time, or plenty-time in combination with We'Moonager job, or on consultant basis). 503-630-7848, PO Box 1395, Estacada, OR 97023 |