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Halfmoon Ecovillage

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • English
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2021

What we do

During the summer of 2021, we secured a parcel of vacant land near Crawford Bay in British Columbia. We have put a pause on visitors and new members until at least summer 2028, as we implement our plan for guest accommodations. Check back then for an update.

We are an off-grid spiritual community striving to be entirely self-sufficient. We have a well for water and grow some of our own food. Most of our energy comes from our solar arrays, with the rest from a diesel generator when cloudy. We are currently a group of 2 families. Manoj with his daughter, plus Jamie and Tanya with their son.

Manoj is a father to three adult children. His spiritual journey began after 9/11 when he read “Conversations with Nostradamus” by Dolores Cannon, and decided to begin a disciplined yoga practice which led to a variety of spiritual experiences and a desire to live in an intentional self-sufficient spiritual community. You can find him online here: https://www.youtube.com/@manojtheyogi

Jamie is a dad with an amazing partner (Tanya) and a wonderful child. He is driven by truth, nature, spirit, and all the aspects that make up being both a human and a being. From re-envisioning how we live in homes, interact with energy, grow and preserve food to our spiritual evolution, finding the truth of our history, our present life situation and the beautiful mysteries of our world. He feels extremely lucky to be a part of this intentional community and in our mission to live in harmony with people of like values.

Tanya’s intention is to live sustainably, grow her own food and provide an environment for her son to live out his childhood surrounded by happiness, spiritualism and a like minded community. She enjoys being in nature and hiking and grounding herself to our earth. Gardening her own organic food is her primary goal. She really enjoys cooking and preparing food through a whole food plant based diet.

Our Vision

From Neale Donald Walsch’s “The Complete Conversations with God” book:
The model for life in a highly evolved society: Beings live in clusters, or what you would call small intentional communities. These clusters are not further organized into cities, states, or nations, but each interacts with the others on a co-equal basis. There are no governments as you would understand them, and no laws. There are councils, or conclaves, guided by a Triangular Code: Awareness, Honesty, Responsibility.

Our Mission

From Sal Rachele’s “Earth Changes and Beyond” book:
Fourth density humans remaining with the Earth will create intentional self-sufficient spiritual communities of light in the safe places on Earth, where they will flourish and thrive. They will create what the Hopi call the “fifth world.” (Pangaea is the first, Lemuria the second, Atlantis the third, and the rapidly declining present civilization the fourth world.)

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Spiritual
  • Languages
  • English
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Sustainability practices
  • Ecosystem restoration
  • Renewable energy systems
  • Water conservation and management
  • Waste reduction / composting
  • Regenerative agriculture or permaculture
  • Permaculture design
  • Ecosystem
  • Temperate Forest

Commemorative dates

  • January 20, 2021
  • Started planning
  • November 21, 2021
  • Started living together

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  • 4 Total members
  • Not open to new members
  • Not open to visitors
  • Not open to volunteers
Total
5

Primary decision-making authority

  • Small Leadership Group

A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.

Decision-making process

  • Full Consensus

Everyone must agree before moving forward.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Economic model

  • Partial Income-Sharing

Members contribute a percentage of income to community funds.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • There is a one-time fee, investment, or share purchase to join the community separate from accessing housing
  • 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

Join fee: Yes
Regular fees: Yes
Labor: Encouraged or suggested
Members with pre-existing debt: allowed

Vehicle accessibility

  • Most / all people own their own vehicles
  • It would be difficult / impossible to live in this community without a car

Frequency of communal meals

  • Rarely

Significant food acquisition practices

  • Growing our own
  • Locally sourced

Dietary type

  • Vegetarian Only

Dietary restriction

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

Nature of social activity

  • People in the community tend to keep to themselves

Local connectedness

  • We try to engage with our local community

Friendliness of people and local government

  • There is a moderate amount of connection and collaboration between people and local government

Pet policy

  • Pets are allowed, with special approval or according to policy

Substance use culture

  • Substance use is prohibited in the community

Practiced relationship models

  • Monogamy
  • Celibacy

Age demographics

  • Multi-generational (all ages well represented)

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a Community Land Trust or some other kind of nonprofit

Ecosystem

  • Temperate Forest

Moderate climate with distinct seasonal changes
Includes deciduous and mixed forest types
Examples: Eastern North American Forests, European Broadleaf Forests

Setting

  • Rural

Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.

Sustainability approach

  • Ecosystem restoration
  • Renewable energy systems
  • Water conservation and management
  • Waste reduction / composting
  • Regenerative agriculture or permaculture
  • Permaculture design

Land practices in our community

  • The community practices permaculture
  • The community is working to build soil using only natural methods

Self-produced energy

  • 33 - 66%

Energy sources used

  • Photovoltaic Solar

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%

Local, organic, or fair trade food

  • 33 - 66%

Food systems

  • Community garden

Source of water

  • Well water

Wastewater management

  • Septic system

Waste management practices

  • Composting
  • Land area size
    143.9 acres

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Location

  • British Columbia, Canada

Halfmoon Ecovillage

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2 weeks ago

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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Breathe the Magic

Set in Sea Elephant, Tasmania, within a remarkable conservation landscape, this contemporary home offers genuine privacy with the assurance that the surrounding native environment is protected for the future.  With its cool King Island climate and abundant rain and water supply, your lifetyle is secure in a climate future that is becoming unsettling. Experience the unique community lifestyle that only King Island can offer.  Sleep with the peace of knowing you live in a place where everyone looks out for everyone else, and someone will always have your back. 1675 Reekara Road offers slightly more than 51 hectares of protected King Island wilderness, of which approximately 48.84 hectares are protected under a conservation covenant encompassing King Island scrub, blue gum forest, remarkable wildlife. The property is surrounded by the Lavinia State Reserve and Council Hill Conservation Area. A 2 hectare residential entitlement provides ample space for planting vegetables, fruit trees,  keeping chickens, or creating other sustainable living infrastructure.  Already included are: – A well-maintained house built in 2023 with upstairs en-suite bedroom and deck with gorgeous views, including forest/ocean outlook. – A spacious downstairs bathroom provides options for guest accommodation – Just include a sleeper couch or 2 in the ample living area. – A large pristine kitchen, including pantry and laundry. – Small wood shed – Large shed or double garage built in 2024 – Enclosed garden – 40,000 litre water storage tank – large dam An existing approved DA means you have the option of further development.  Buy the property furnighed, unfurnished, or with a 2015 Jeep Wrangler thrown in.

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