Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities – East Wind Community

About the Workshops

Overview

Founded in 1974 and nestled in the beautiful Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri, East Wind Community is one of America’s longest-established income-sharing intentional communities. For more than 50 years, its members have embraced a cooperative way of life, sharing income, resources, responsibilities, and decision-making.

Spread across more than 1,000 acres of forests, gardens, and farmland, East Wind offers a fascinating example of cooperative living in action. Members work together to grow food, maintain their shared spaces, and operate successful community-owned businesses, including the well-known East Wind Nut Butters.

With no traditional bosses and a strong emphasis on personal freedom, cooperation, and democratic decision-making, East Wind has spent more than five decades exploring what it means to live and work together.

https://www.eastwind.org/

About the Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities

What you get from the Virtual Tour experience:

photos, videos, captivating stories and insightful conversations
deeper insight into the lives of communitarians and the places they live
inspiration to get you excited about your own community journey
information about housing and membership opportunities
network building with presenters and fellow participants
a sense for what’s alive in the communities movement right now
plenty of time for you to ask your burning questions about community living.

Check out all our past virtual tour recordings at FIC’s YouTube channel!

For those who are...

New to community

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Instructor

Cynthia Tina

Cynthia helps people explore intentional community living and find a place to call home. She is the author of Intentional Community: Choosing Community Living for Better Housing, Health, and Happiness, and over the past decade, has visited more than 200 intentional communities around the world. Cynthia lives in an ecovillage in Vermont, where she’s built a natural home and tend a permaculture garden. She’s the founder of Community Finders, which helps people find and join intentional communities, and Ecovillage Tours, which offers immersive trips to visit communities around the world. To date, more than twenty tours have been hosted, giving participants a rare opportunity to experience a wide diversity of communities firsthand. Begin your journey here by taking a short quiz to learn which community type: https://communityfinders.com/quiz/