Harvard Magazine Features Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm

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Molly
  • June 21, 2010
Eco-friendly wooden community homes at Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm.

Harvard Magazine has a nice feature on Nubanusit Farm and Neighborhood, a cohousing community in New Hampshire.

They tore up the parking lot and put up a communal paradise. Or so Joni Mitchell could sing about what’s happened on 113 acres of idyllic farmland just outside Peterborough, New Hampshire.

In 2004, two couples bought the site of the defunct Salzburg Inn complex, right next to the Nubanusit River. They have since redeveloped about 4.5 acres of the former commercial property as the state’s first cohousing community, Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm.

Read the whole article on Nubanusit Cohousing.

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