GREEN ACRES PERMACULTURE VILLAGE is a retrofit intergenerational intentional community carved from within an existing suburban neighborhood in a college town. The evolving Village, currently featuring three adjacent homes and permacultured grounds, with pathways and commons areas (one greenhouse, a workshop space, chicken house, shed, patio) offers itself as a template for transformation of suburban life.
Village rhythms feature both work and play. Offering workshops, work days, weekly Community Dinners, and Seasonal Celebrations, we both integrate internally and promote outreach to the larger community. To this end, we offer tours, plus sponsor and encourage WWOOFers, including Indiana University Interns and Sustainability Classes, to demonstrate and promote values that lie below money as far as possible. To this end we keep rents low, work together on projects, encourage each other’s self-expression and entrepreneurial skills, honor our communion with the living Earth, and aim to live and work in place inside a sharing economy that values both individual expression and community cooperation.
Established in 2009 by founder Ann Kreilkamp who began by dedicating her own yard for a Green Acres Neighborhood Garden, both our sense of community and our capacity for growing, preserving, and selling or donating food have evolved organically over time.
Green Acres Permaculture Village is networked with the Green Acres Neighborhood Association, Dandelion Village, Bloomington Co-operative Living, Bloomington Council of Neighborhood Associations, and the Fellowship of Intentional Communities.
GREEN ACRES PERMACULTURE VILLAGE is a small, retrofit, intergenerational, intentional community in a core suburban college town. A neighborhood that integrates self-knowledge and expression with a shared culture among humans and the living Earth to encourage abundance on every level.
Come to our community dinner to meet everyone. If you like us and we like you, we’ll ask you to do a background check on yourself for us. Assuming the background check is okay, then we’ll ask if you’d like to stay one month to see if the arrangement works for everyone, including yourself! At this point we will ask you to sign a lease for 6, 9, or 12 months. We have a short Q&A for those who can’t meet us in person, w/questions about allergies, willingness to work 4 hours a week, etc. Everyone is welcome to fill out the Q&A and be added to the waitlist! https://tinyurl.com/GreenAcresPermacultureVillage.
October 9, 2022: One room is available.
Email us at gr********************@***il.com and/or add your email address to the list of those invited to our weekly community dinners, Thursday at 7pm! After a three month hiatus, the Community Dinners began again on March 24th 2022.
Generally seek agreement, but have backup methods when consensus isn’t reached.
Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.
One identified leader, in the sense that one person who lives here owns all three properties and receives all the rents, which are low in today’s market, and differ depending on size of the room. Modified Consensus in this case means that the owner can veto any decision made by the group.
Another identified leader, the person who serves as farm manager in exchange for partial rent reduction.
Members contribute a percentage of income to community funds.
Labor: Yes (4 hrs/week)
Members with pre-existing debt: allowed
The owner is the one person who “partially shares income,” in that ALL funds received from (lower than market) rents go back into the place itself (maintenance, farm costs, property taxes, mortgages, insurance).
Common House, Garden(s), Greenhouse(s), Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Tractor & Farm Equipment, Fire pit, Internet
Residential areas outside city centers but within metropolitan regions.
Shared living spaces with private bedrooms/bathrooms and communal
kitchens, dining, and social areas.
Integrated communities designed around ecological principles with sustainable living practices.
Geographically close groups of independently-owned homes whose residents actively cultivate community relationships and shared values.
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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