Aerial view of Wild Life Ranch with open fields, buildings, and roads.

Wild Life Ranch

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About the Communities

  • Forming
  • Ecological
  • Town/Small City

Founding year

  • 2023

What we do

I’ve recently purchased a 13 acre horse ranch in Arvada, Colorado. We’re converting the ranch into a modern village called Wild Life Ranch. It’s a space for 30-50 humans to live together in a way that is communal, in touch with nature and allows every one of us to go after living the life they truly want.
Over the last years as I’ve been dreaming and brainstorming about Wild Life, I wrote down 3 vision images I’d like to share with you to see how they resonate with you:
Every day life
We live in simple tiny houses surrounded by a shared, large community building. We spend most of our time outdoors, have access to delicious and plentiful food from our farms, fruit trees and other naturally growing herbs, seeds and spices. We live among animals that we take care of and honor and also acknowledge that they serve us with their meat, wool, eggs, backs to ride and company
Connection
We open our doors for visitors to spend time with us and learn how to live in simple, conscious and alive community. Our gatherings are fun, lightweight and impactful to transfer the ancient knowledge about human life that lives in all of our bodies over to everyone who comes, waking up that ancient knowledge inside of them. We laugh together, cry together, process together, get drunk together and live in peace with each other most of the time.
Passion and Purpose
Everyone is going after what they really love, caring for horses, farming the land, working on laptops, caring for animals and babies and humans, yoga, moving their bodies, teaching, swimming, building buildings, cooking, singing, dancing, there is something for everyone and in the end it is a beautiful work of art we have all created together.
Loving and hating each other!
The most important pillar of Wild Life is active conflict resolution for me. All of the intentional communities I’ve lived in have fallen or thrived on whether they were able to make conflict resolution work. My dream is that we make space for regular times to resent each other for having violated our expectations of the world, feel all the feelings underneath and be able to come back to a space of centeredness and connection. So, bring your hate, bring your love and everything in between, it’s all welcome!

Our Mission

In my time of living in community one of the big making or breaking points I witnessed is the group’s ability to deal with conflict and differing opinions as well as the wide range of human emotions. To facilitate being with these aspects of our humanity, I’d like to share with you these agreements and values for becoming a part of WLR:
My word is my bond
I do as I say and I say as I intend to do. I live aligned with my word. I’m able to change my mind and previously made agreements and I will let people know about it. I acknowledge if I slip up and recommit to my agreement.
Revealing my reality
I like to and commit to reveal the reality about my body sensations, thoughts and emotions, in particular my moments of tension, as well as appreciation in relationship to other community members. When I notice I’ve withheld something, I go and reveal it as soon as I become aware of my withhold.
Alignment with nature
I live in alignment with nature and honest necessity and abundance. I neither deprive myself nor indulge in experiences that I long for.
Asking for what I want:
I take responsibility for my needs, reveal my wishes and ask for what I want. I commit to framing my asks as requests that can be received with a yes or no.
Sustainability:
My endeavors are self-sustaining and don’t require charity or capital outside of their own circular nature.
Abundance:
We have enough money and resources to do all that we want and are prepared for downturns and always have a little extra to help us get through hard times.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Community type
  • Cohousing
  • Coliving
  • Ecovillage
  • Activities
  • Property management
  • Experiences
  • Networking

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2023
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2023
  • Started living together
  • 1 Total member
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
1

How to join

My experience of living in community is that it is similar to finding a romantic partner – it takes time, getting to know each other is a delicate and often anxiety-inducing process and then there’s still no guarantee that it’ll work out!

To honor this, I’d like to make everything as transparent as possible and explain the steps of becoming a member of WLR:

Step: Application through website or other written or verbal voicing of interest with details about what attracts you to Wild Life – you can click the form below to get started.

Step: Meeting and conversation and or Zoom call to get to know you, talk about your and our desires.

Step: Visa – 14 Day trial living process with check-in 1 a week on how it’s going

Step: Green Card – Decision on extension of living trial to 3-6 months.

Step: Citizenship – Decision on becoming a full Wild Life Member, becoming an official member of the organization, taking up roles, receiving voting rights and usage rights of the space for 3 years with regular conflict resolution along the way.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Please check out the website at wildliferanch.co and if it resonates, send me an email to mo**************@***il.com

Primary decision-making authority

  • Small Leadership Group

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

Decision-making process

  • Consent-Based (Sociocracy)

Decisions proceed unless someone has a reasoned objection.

Governance structure

  • Sociocratic/Circle-Based

Organized in circles or domains with distributed authority.

Conflict resolution approach

I’m excited to grow into a founding team which will become the core leadership group of the first couple of years of the community.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

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: $10000
Regular fees: $1250
Labor: Yes (3 hrs/week)

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

Common House, Garden(s), Workshop, Hot tub or hot springs, Large Scale Kitchen, Internet

Frequency of communal meals

  • 2-5 times per week

Significant food acquisition practices

  • Locally sourced

Community activities and engagement

  • Volunteer, Internship, or Apprenticeship, or WWOOF’ing
  • Neighborhood, Community Housing, or Homeowner's Association
  • Organization, Resource, or Network
  • Festivals, Conferences, Events

Substance use culture

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

Age demographics

  • Mixed adults (few or no children)

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a Land Trust, Home Owners Association, or corporation

Setting

  • Town/Small City

Smaller municipalities with local services but rural character.

Community type

  • Cohousing

    Private homes with shared common facilities, designed for neighborly
    interaction while maintaining independence.

  • Coliving

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

  • Ecovillage

    Integrated communities designed around ecological principles with sustainable living practices.

Self-produced energy

  • Up to 33%

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%

Local, organic, or fair trade food

  • 33 - 66%

Food systems

  • Community garden
  • Land area size
    13 acres

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Location

  • Colorado, United States

Wild Life Ranch

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1 week 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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4 months ago

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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3 days ago

Lot of Goodness

Are you seeking to live in a sustainable, wellness-oriented community that prioritizes nature and environmental conservation? Lot 6 in the Living Well Ecovillage offers the perfect opportunity to be part of a vibrant, self-sufficient community committed to holistic health and ecological harmony. This lot, approximately 1/3 acre in size, is equipped with city utilities and fiber internet access. It is located in a unique mixed-use community with a variety of land uses planned for the future, including small business/commercial spaces, tiny houses, cluster housing, and a 10-acre farm. Your home could face the street or look North to the Living Well Park &  Pavilion where we enjoy many activities together as a Community.  Lot 6 would be ideal for someone who wanted to be close to the action.  Maybe you’d like a large, shared home. Or a business location. The Ecovillage is home to a diverse range of homes, such as timber frame, Deltec, hempcrete, and Net-Zero energy designs—all built with green building principles in mind. This community prioritizes sustainability and wellness in every aspect of life. About the Living Well EcovillageSpanning 126 acres, the Living Well Ecovillage is bordered by the Deep River and Sandy Creek, offering stunning natural beauty and a tranquil environment. The Ecovillage includes shared spaces like a community garden, a Greenway/Rail Trail, and a neighborhood park. Over 53 acres of natural land buffer the river and creek, preserving the area’s pristine beauty and offering residents a true connection to nature. Your Dream Home AwaitsLot 6 is the ideal spot to build your sustainable home, surrounded by trees, rock outcroppings, and abundant wild edible plants. Experience breathtaking views and a peaceful setting, perfect for those seeking a slower, more connected way of life. A Community That Supports WellnessThe Living Well Ecovillage is not just about space—it’s about community. With access to the Folk School, residents engage in hands-on learning, sustainable practices, and personal growth, fostering a sense of belonging and purpose. Perfectly LocatedJust two miles from Highway 64 in Franklinville, North Carolina, the Ecovillage is easily accessible to Greensboro, Asheboro, and Siler City, and a short drive from Raleigh, Durham, and Charlotte. It’s centrally located between the mountains and the ocean, with easy access to cultural and recreational amenities. Join Us in Building a Better FutureLot 6 offers more than just land—it’s an opportunity to be part of a community with a shared vision for a sustainable, resilient future. Ready to start the next chapter of your life in the Living Well Ecovillage? Visit Living Well Ecovillage for more information and to explore your future home. For an aerial and street level view, visit Google Maps.
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