Interior of a cozy living room with fireplace, wooden accents, and decorative plates.

Permaculture Community

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Home-sharing
  • Urban

Founding year

  • 2000

What we do

Cultivate community, create a harmonious space, and put your hands in the garden at our beautiful Victorian house close to downtown. We value positive energy, clear and open communication, sustainability, permaculture gardening, cleanliness and healthy eating.

We are urban homesteaders. We grow dozens of different vegetables, fruits and flowers throughout our property-wide garden with a lovely pond, a large private backyard with a fire pit, and a great front porch for sunsets, conversation, and afternoon naps. We have laundry and some work space out back in our carriage house. We prefer to use the clothesline when it’s sunny.
We keep a clean house and are looking for a conscientious housemate who will participate and be involved in caring for the house and garden. You would be living with 3 others. We’re looking for a mature (regardless of age) person to join us and help shape our community by your presence.
We’re welcoming, LGBTQ+ friendly, laid back, creative and cooperative. We take care of our garden, our home, and one another—sharing meals, respecting one another’s differences and celebrating our shared interests.
This is a unique and charming house. There are 3 bedrooms and a nice bath upstairs as well as a small sitting area. Another bedroom, an office room, and bath are on the main floor. Both bathrooms have big bathtubs and the upstairs bath has a heated floor.
Great location: Congress Park, 13th and Detroit. Safe neighborhood with minimal traffic and free street parking on our block. Easy access to downtown. Walking distance to three parks, shops, restaurants, Cheesman Park, SIE film society cinema, Tattered Cover, Botanic Gardens, bus lines.
420 friendly. No tobacco. We want a cat. No dogs.
Rent is $850/mo. plus $50 for utilities and high speed internet.
If you love to garden, want to live sustainably and create community, live in a clean and beautiful house and help keep it that way, and if you want to live with other kind, responsible, spiritually conscious and healthy people, contact us.
We are excited to be urban homesteading and want someone who enjoys that.
Communication, collaboration and participation are the keys to community.
We want considerate people who will consider this their home and share in cleaning, gardening and care taking. We meet as a community on a regular basis.
There’s no TV here ( we do watch movies together sometimes). We’re an organic household; we like healthy food, mostly vegetarian, and share some meals. We are relaxed, friendly and easy going.
This is an opportunity to practice living in community and creating a happy cooperative household as well as participating with gardening and nutritious meals.
How people relate to each other and how they reciprocate is the basis of any society. We change the world by changing how we relate. Interactions based on kindness create peace.

Our Mission

conscious creative community, living sustainably and harmoniously, building relationships and a garden together

  • Purpose
  • Home-sharing
  • Community type
  • Coliving
  • Sustainability practices
  • Permaculture design

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2000
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2025
  • Started living together

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  • 4 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
4

How to join

Come and meet us to see if it’s a good fit. We are seeking two new members now.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Phone or email. Or text 303 999 1191

Primary decision-making authority

  • All Community Members Together

The whole membership decides collectively.

Decision-making process

  • Modified Consensus

Generally seek agreement, but have backup methods when consensus isn’t reached.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Conflict resolution approach

Rae, the homeowner, has created the framework by developing the space and garden, but wants this to be non-hierarchical and egalitarian, with each member of the community contributing and taking full responsibility.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • There is a labor obligation
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Regular fees: $10
Labor: Yes (4 hrs/week)
minimum 1-4 hours per week maintaining house and garden (as needed. more in summer, less in winter)
approximately $5-10/mo towards cleaning supplies

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Common House, Garden(s), Outbuilding(s), Fire pit, Internet

Frequency of communal meals

  • About once a week

Significant food acquisition practices

  • Locally sourced

Dietary restriction

  • People can cook and eat what they want in their own residence

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies
  • Substance use is prohibited in the community

Gender composition

  • Roughly balanced (no group over 60%)

Age demographics

  • Mixed adults (few or no children)

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a single individual, couple, or Family Trust

Setting

  • Urban

Within city limits with access to urban amenities and infrastructure.

Community type

  • Coliving

    Shared living spaces with private bedrooms/bathrooms and communal
    kitchens, dining, and social areas.

Sustainability approach

  • Permaculture design

Land practices in our community

  • The community practices permaculture

Self-produced energy

  • Up to 33%

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%

Local, organic, or fair trade food

  • Up to 33%

Food systems

  • Community garden

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Location

  • Colorado, United States

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Healing Love Healing Money: Trust As The Foundation For A New Culture

Money, love and power are among the hardest things any community works with, and many of us carry the same fears into both: not having enough, losing what we have, and the sense that if someone else gets money or love, we won’t. Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture is taught by two intentional communities. Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle are from Clear Sky Meditation and Retreat Center, a Buddhist-lineage community in the BC Rockies. Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera Healing Biotope, a community of about 160 people in southern Portugal that has spent decades studying love, trust and relationship. Clear Sky has spent years working on its relationship with money, and our two communities found surprising parallels in the fears beneath both. Over four sessions we explore the roots of fear around money and belonging, love, possession and power, trust as infrastructure (community as a container for healing), and ethical livelihood. We use short meditations, body-based practices, reflection and small-group conversation. You do not need to be in a romantic relationship or live in community. When: October 27, Nov 3, 10, 17. All four sessions: 12–2pm Vancouver, 1–3pm Alberta, 7–9pm UK and Portugal, 8–10pm Central Europe. Note: US and some Canadian provinces change clocks on November 1, so the US west coast is 12–2pm on October 27, then 11am–1pm for the remaining sessions, and Eastern is 3–5pm on October 27, then 2–4pm for the rest. Cost: sliding scale Details and registration: https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/healing-love-healing-money-online/  
October 27, 2026 13:00 – November 17, 2026 15:00
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Beautiful 3+ Bed, 2.5 Bath Townhome in Established West Emerald CoHousing, Seattle

A rare home is available at West Emerald Cohousing, an established all-ages intentional community in West Seattle. For those considering a move to the Pacific Northwest—or hoping to join a mature community rather than one still in the forming stages—West Emerald offers decades of community life, beautiful gardens, shared resources and a peaceful setting within the city in a convenient location since 1999. This unit has a unique floor plan that is ideal for co-buying, co-living, or for one household. The home itself offers a flexible 3+ bedroom, 2.5 bath layout: Garden-level room with a separate exterior entrance and half bath—ideal for a home office, studio, guest space or client-facing business Main-level bedroom and full bath, laundry, making one-level living possible Open great room with large windows overlooking gardens filled with birdsong Well-designed kitchen with generous storage and pantry Two additional light-filled spacious bedrooms and a full bath upstairs Thoughtfully maintained and updated Located at the end of a common pathway for added privacy and garden views, Just feet from parking, which is out of view West Emerald community amenities include: Common House with gathering and activity spaces Community meals and events Mature gardens and shared outdoor spaces Workshop/maker spaces and bike barn Exercise room EV charging opportunity Excellent Metro access to Downtown Seattle just minutes away Nestled into a dell, it’s Seattle’s best-kept secret South Seattle College and lifelong learning, NW Wine Academy, the Seattle Chinese Garden are nearby, with easy access to Alki Beach, Lincoln Park, magnet schools, ferries, and the shops and restaurants of the West Seattle Junction. 6000 17th Ave SW, Seattle, WA Is a wonderful opportunity to have your own comfortable, private home while becoming part of a vibrant and well-established Seattle all-ages cohousing community. For more information contact the friendly Realtor at 206-579-9066, or at ki**********@**********te.com who will be happy to meet you there or do a facetime tour.
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Do you feel called to help co-create a small, newly forming eco-spiritual community?

Old structures are crumbling. New ways of living are calling. We are answering that call. Wild Grace is an eco-spiritual community located in the Sierra foothills 30 minutes from Grass Valley, California. We recently completed new homes for those who feel called to our vision. Currently there are four of us living on this sacred 80 acres of land although we are a hub for an expanded neighborhood community. Many join us weekly for potlucks, expressive dance, Qi Gong, monthly musical gatherings, and seasonal celebrations in our temple, as well as tending to our orchard. We are excited to welcome others to join us on the land who are dedicating their lives to spiritual growth and ready to live in a more focused and intimate heart-centered lifestyle. Might that be you or someone you know? The fundamentals are simple. Spirit. We listen personally and collectively together most mornings, usually starting with a musical offering, a prayer, or a short reading, followed by about 40 minutes of what we call “sacred silence.” Heart Circles. About once a week we gather to share and listen. We are informed by authentic and compassionate communication practices. Nature. The land itself—an 80-acre oasis of field and forest perched above the wild and scenic South Yuba River—calls for our stewardship in the gardens, orchard, greenhouses, and general care. In turn, nature feeds us abundantly, both literally and spiritually. Interbeing. We join with others to share inspiration and connection as we host monthly gatherings of song, story and prayer that draws from the larger community in addition to other events we share with our closer neighbors. As we attend to these fundamentals, Grace flows to and through us—often in “Wild” or unexpected ways. Grace catalyzes through us, but is not something we possess. Because we all are connected, we feel that Grace actively transforms n
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