Growing Tomatoes

Our consensus trainers and communication and process experts advise what to do about inadvertent “minority rule” in community.

Enjoy the very first episode of Planet Community! This episode is focused on Dancing Rabbit, in Rutledge, Missouri, which you can learn more about here: https://www.ic.org/directory/dancing-rabbit-ecovillage/ Read more about the series, and contribute to the tour, here: https://www.ic.org/pl…

A guest post by Leonie Brien Integrating into the community has been really easy for us so far. The community is always thrilled to celebrate any holidays just to gather everyone together. We have community dinner often, which is a great time for us to get to know each member. The dinner is alway…

Degraded slopes, crumbling logs, plenty of trench-digging, seven blueberry plants, and an unanticipated drought combine to teach some important lessons.

Full immersion in a residential intentional community transforms over the course of a decade and a half into a much wider experience of community.

“By the sounds of it, it’s typical among human beings to feel like something huge is missing. The other thing is that they tend to be one of the same few problems: lack of human connection, lack of personal freedom (due to money or family situations), lack of confidence or self-esteem, or lack of…

Tina Nilsen-Hodges, a resident of Ecovillage at Ithaca who is also an Ithaca College lecturer, is leading an effort to create a charter school focused on sustainability. The alternative high school, New Roots School, would not be a project of the ecovillage but might hold some classes there and be i…

Growing up in a community with a strong commitment to changing the world can be both enlivening and challenging.

Tony Sirna is a former Board member, ic.org webmaster, and founding member of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. For more 30th blog posts click here. When I took over the FIC web site in 2004 it had already been an amazing resource for a decade. Similarly the Communities Directory had completed it’s …

For intentional community members, community comes with added benefits, unique challenges, and a call to authenticity.