Multi- Family Homestead

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About the Communities

  • Forming
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2025

What we do

The goal is to live off grid, making money from small-scale farming operations. We think everyone should be able to access nature in a sustainable and healthy way.

Our Mission

We want to reconnect to nature, intentionally be our own source of income to buy what we cannot physically make/source locally.
Everyone deserves to have access to privacy, as well as a village that shares the same ideas. We are starting a homestead that includes multiple families/ groups to ease the hard work of this lifestyle.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Community type
  • Cohousing
  • Ecovillage
  • Activities
  • Others

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2025
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2026
  • Started living together
  • 6 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
6

How to join

If you want to live with us, I will not ask “rent” or monetary payment. If you decide that living this lifestyle is best, and you will not be problematic, you are a welcome member.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Either give us a call or message

Primary decision-making authority

  • All Community Members Together

The whole membership decides collectively.

Decision-making process

  • Full Consensus

Everyone must agree before moving forward.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • 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

Labor: Yes (20 hrs/week)
Members with pre-existing debt: allowed
You can either have a remote job or one in the closest towns. You can also contribute to the livestock business that will help with permits, and other legal necessities that come with village of this kind.

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

Common House, Swimming pond or pool, Large Scale Kitchen, Tractor & Farm Equipment, Swingsets & play areas

Frequency of communal meals

  • Approximately 1 meal per day

Significant food acquisition practices

  • Livestock / Animal Husbandry

Dietary restriction

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

Community activities and engagement

  • Transition Town (post-petroleum and off-grid communities.)

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies

Gender composition

  • Roughly balanced (no group over 60%)

Age demographics

  • Mixed adults (few or no children)

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Location

  • Virginia, United States

Multi- Family Homestead

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6 months ago

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