We are living on 430 acres in Jamaica, VT and thriving! We’ve got the permits, we’ve got the equipment, we’ve got beauty all around – and we need people to share it all with and to co-create with! The current co-founding team – Bob and Marissa – are living in a yurt on the edge of the old orchard and dreaming of building our infrastructure and community here, and another yurt is ready to host.
Our mission is to explore routes to regenerative and affordable co-living, healthy transformative relationships, cooperative self-employment, and scalable consensual self-governance through intentional community. Our vision is to create an experimental center for the spread of a consent and wisdom based culture that promotes wise relationship and regeneration on all levels. We hope to cultivate compassionate capable leaders to help re-spark the communal living movement through modern and traditional practices in psychology, spirituality, nature connection, land tending, arts, apprenticeship education, and more.
We’re seeding a thriving global society that values individual and communal sovereignty, cooperation, and care for all life. We are currently welcoming socially and emotionally skilled people to begin forming the embodied seed crystals of the culture we hope to nurture here. Once we have the resources to support them, we aim to begin welcoming people who have greater personal challenges around living and working in highly attuned small social groups. Eventually, we envision creating 5 or more interdependent intentional communities on the land, each with 5 neighborhoods composed of roughly 5 pods, with about 5 adults in each pod, thus around 125 adults max per community.
We also envision creating an ecovillage network with shared values and principles. Regardless of the particular subculture within each, they will be supported in remaining in alignment first and foremost with the overall mission of supporting the rapid emergence of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
We hold deep respect for the practices and cultural traditions of local and non-local indigenous peoples, such as cultivating gratitude and respect for all that is, living in reciprocal relationship with the earth, building a hand-crafted relationship with our shelters and clothing, and training in essential archaic life skills, first and foremost of those being learning to live and work together in beauty and harmony. We are humbly holding the intention to develop a relationship with our local indigenous communities and find aligned ways to be of service, particularly to the Elnu-Abenaki tribe and other nearby Abenaki bands, including the Nolka clan and other clans of the Ko’asek band.
We hope to have offered some clarity here, are open to answering any further questions, and welcome any feedback or assistance.
Our mission is to explore routes to regenerative and affordable co-living, healthy transformative relationships, cooperative self-employment, and scalable consensual self-governance through intentional community.
In this forming stage, our focus in on building infrastructure, processes and a culture for this ecovillage community. We are seeking people who are interested in joining a community at the forming stage and participate in the creation of the ecovillage.
If you are interested in becoming a member or community partner to our ecovillage, fill out a short form on our website.
After that, we’ll plan for an interview with you over the phone or video call if you are not local and in person if you are local.
If things feel aligned after the first conversation, we can plan a visit for you to meet our community and land. If the visit still feels good and you would like to relocate to the land to support building this season, we generally ask for a 3-months trial period for us to get to know each other. It is also the opportunity for you to figure out how much of a Home it could be, where you would live, what kind of work or business you may want to plug into, and how you and Earthseed may best benefit each other.
After that, we’ll check in with you and the community and discuss all together when and how you would be joining.
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This process is a (very slowly evolving) living being, and as our community expands, we may be changing it. Please, check with us on the latest.
Check out our membership and community partner application on our website: https://earthseedecovillage.com/membership/
See our google calendar for upcoming events at https://earthseedecovillage.com/contact/
See our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556295657486
Reach out to us at he***@*****************ge.com or 802.444.3001
A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.
Decisions proceed unless someone has a reasoned objection.
Organized in circles or domains with distributed authority.
We are considering prosocial governance structure (see https://earthseedecovillage.com/prosocial-governance-model/ for more info), and Holacracy/Sociocracy for decision-making and leading meetings. This may change as new members join and bring new skills, interests, experiences, leadership styles.
Members contribute a percentage of income to community funds.
Regular fees: $400
Labor: Encouraged or suggested
Members with pre-existing debt: allowed
We are creating co-owned businesses on the land once the infrastructure permits. We launched a handyman service in January 2025 called the Handy Humans Collective. We are growing our local presence for all sorts of handyman jobs and plan to continue to grow so that Earthseed members join the ecovillage and are seeking income generation opportunities. We also have a land-based business for herbal products called Forest Alchemy. We turn herbal plants that we grow and forage into teas, tinctures, fermented goods, and more! There is room for folks to join and contribute to both of these businesses and launch a different collective business on the land.
Common House, Garden(s), Greenhouse(s), Vehicle Share, Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Swimming pond or pool, Hot tub or hot springs, Outdoor Kitchen, Tractor & Farm Equipment, Fire pit, Waterfront access, Internet
Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.
Connecting people and communities through an intentional online marketplace
A residential project: people live here as their primary home.
An institution, business, network, or project that isn’t a residence (e.g. a learning center, farm, or network with no one living there full-time).
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