Eco-friendly community housing with landscaped gardens and walking paths.

Terra Futura Regenerative Neighborhood

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • English
  • Social
  • Urban

Founding year

  • 2022

What we do

Terra Futura is an intentionally designed regenerative neighborhood in Asheville, North Carolina. We bring many of the qualities people seek in intentional communities and cohousing—meaningful connection, shared spaces, participatory governance, ecological stewardship, and everyday mutual support—into a neighborhood model that also preserves independence and connection to city life. Situated just 1.5 miles from the restaurants and nightlife of walkable West Asheville and just a 10 minute drive to downtown, our land adjoins a forested ravine that offers privacy and views of wildlife.

Our Green Built homes are clustered within regenerative landscapes, a Permaculture garden, and shared gathering spaces designed to make it easier for neighbors to actually know one another. Right now, much of the life of the neighborhood centers around young families, with kids moving between homes and natural play spaces, while adults gather for shared meals, projects, and everyday connection. We are excited to welcome people in other stages of life who are drawn to a more connected way of living. Homes are available through a mix of ownership and long-term rental opportunities.

Our Vision

We exist to inspire a deep sense of belonging, interdependence, and connection to the land.
Guided by ancestral wisdom, and shaped by the incremental actions we take today, Terra Futura is an optimistic experiment in cooperative living. In harmony with one another on sacred land, together we envision a more abundant tomorrow.

Our Mission

We’re dedicated to building a regenerative neighborhood that nurtures community, and fosters intentional living.
Rooted in belonging, and guided by recognition that we are an integral part of the natural world, we’re embarking on the journey of co-creating a thriving, values-aligned community that cultivates an ethos of mutual care.

  • Purpose
  • Social
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • English
  • Community type
  • Cohousing
  • Ecovillage
  • Intentional Neighborhoods
  • Sustainability practices
  • Sustainability education and community engagement
  • Waste reduction / composting
  • Regenerative agriculture or permaculture
  • Permaculture design
  • Activities
  • Permaculture
  • Property management
  • Education
  • Ecosystem
  • Temperate Forest

Commemorative dates

  • September 30, 2022
  • Purchased Land
  • March 1, 2025
  • Phase One Complete
  • August 1, 2025
  • Started Living Together
  • August 15, 2026
  • Phase Two Complete

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  • 8 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
18

How to join

For now, membership is purchase of a unit or rental from an owner.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Please write in**@*************rm.com to visit the community. We will be in construction phase for about 2 years.

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

We like governance structures like sociocracy, holocracy, and anarchy, but as a “next step” community, we will begin with a simple HOA board of owners and members in a non-exempt nonprofit.

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
  • 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
Members with pre-existing debt: allowed
We will have a standard HOA fee for maintenance of buildings, grounds, farm, amenities, and programs.

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

Common House, Garden(s), Greenhouse(s), Vehicle Share, Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Swimming pond or pool, Hot tub or hot springs, Outdoor Kitchen, Large Scale Kitchen, Tractor & Farm Equipment, Fire pit, Swingsets & play areas, Internet

Frequency of communal meals

  • 1-3 times per month

Significant food acquisition practices

  • Growing our own
  • Locally sourced

Nature of social activity

  • People in the community regularly socialize together

Community activities and engagement

Terra Futura is still in an early, co-creative stage, so new residents have a real opportunity to help shape the culture and rhythms of community life. In addition to already sharing meals, current residents are starting to form ideas around garden workdays, seasonal harvest and food preservation activities, a parent-led homeschool/preschool coop, and hands-on projects like building a cob oven or improving shared spaces.

Longer term, we’re also interested in exploring shared resources, such as a cooperatively owned vehicle, that could help households live more lightly and depend less on multiple cars.

Educational and retreat offerings

Our educational offerings will grow alongside the community. We plan to bring in experienced facilitators for workshops in sociocracy, conflict resolution, nonviolent communication, and other practices that support healthy communication and strong community culture.

We also envision occasional learning opportunities around Permaculture gardening, DIY and homesteading skills, natural building, yoga, wellness, and other resident interests.  Our soon-to-be-renovated barn/common house will features a kitchen and 750 sq. ft. of open multi-use space for workshops and events, as well as a cozy loft for meditation, small retreats, and other intimate gatherings. 

Pet policy

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

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies
  • Substance use occurs in peripheral / discrete / only in personal or private spaces

DEI and anti-oppression training

  • Yes, some individuals

Building Bridges of Asheville’s 9-week course

Internal and external practices

  • Engages with local politics
  • Organizes trainings and workshops for your members

Building Bridges of Asheville’s 9-week course

Level of LGBTQIA+ inclusion

  • Somewhat - we have some LGBTQIA+ members

Gender composition

  • Roughly balanced (no group over 60%)

Age demographics

  • Family-focused (many children and parents)

Racial / ethnic demographics

  • Mostly homogeneous (primarily one background)

Socioeconomic and wealth composition

  • Moderately diverse (some economic variety)

Diversity representation

  • Neurodiverse (ex. autism, ADHD, sensory processing etc.)

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By several individuals through an LLC or a Tenancy In Common agreement

Ecosystem

  • Temperate Forest

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

Setting

  • Urban

Within city limits with access to urban amenities and infrastructure.

Community type

  • Cohousing

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

  • Ecovillage

    Integrated communities designed around ecological principles with sustainable living practices.

  • Intentional Neighborhoods

    Geographically close groups of independently-owned homes whose residents actively cultivate community relationships and shared values.

  • Land-Based Communities

    Communities centered around shared land stewardship, sustainable agriculture, or connection to specific natural environments.

Community type

  • Super-insulated to reduce energy usage

Sustainability approach

  • Sustainability education and community engagement
  • Waste reduction / composting
  • Regenerative agriculture or permaculture
  • Permaculture design

Land practices in our community

  • The community is working to build soil using only natural methods
  • Permaculture-inspired stormwater management system that includes rain gardens and a planted wetland

Community type

  • Super-insulated to reduce energy usage

Some or all of the buildings are...

  • Super-insulated to reduce energy usage

Self-produced energy

  • Up to 33%

Energy production methods

Homes are Net-Zero Ready; owners can easily install solar panels. We have plans for EV charging stations (not installed yet).

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%

Food production methods

Our Permaculture gardens, chicken housing and edible landscaping are in development and will be installed over the next year.  We intend to use only organic inputs and will incorporate compost and chicken manure from on site for nutrient cycling.

Food systems

  • Community garden
  • Greenhouse / aquaponics

Source of water

  • Public water supply

Wastewater management

  • Public sewage

Water conservation practices

  • Efficient irrigation (drip, timed, or moisture-based systems)

Waste management practices

  • Composting
  • Public waste collection
  • Recycling program
  • Land area size
    3 acres
  • Land allocated for food production
    eventually ~0.5 acres, intensively managed
  • Land used for biodiversity enhancement
    0.25 acres
  • Land used for tree planting
    0.25 acres

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Location

  • North Carolina, United States

Terra Futura Regenerative Neighborhood

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4 days ago

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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2 weeks ago

Co-housing Unit For Sale in Portland Oregon

Light-filled 976 sq ft, 3-bedroom, 1-bath end unit in Columbia Ecovillage, Portland’sestablished cohousing community in the Cully neighborhood. With windows onthree sides, this ground-floor home gets natural light all day, even onPortland’s grey ones. The open living and dining area has warm hardwood floors and flows into akitchen with solid wood cabinets and granite counters. The dining roomwindows look straight into a native vine maple — a wall of green from springthrough fall. There’s good storagein the unit, plus an extra storage space in the community storage building.A ductless mini-split provides efficient heating and air conditioning, andthe plumbing was fully replaced in 2026. The primary bedroom has a full-width closet behind a sliding barn door; thesecond bedroom’s closet sits behind a pair of French doors. The thirdbedroom has no closet, which makes it a flexible room — guest room, office,or playroom. Step out the sliding glass door onto your own covered patio, which opens onto the community grounds: organic gardens, personal garden plots,greenhouses, a grape arbor, a bamboo grove, native plantings throughout, andtrees everywhere — including a truly massive old black walnut. The orchard alone is a reason to live here — to name a few:apples, pears, plums, figs, mulberries, chestnuts, walnuts, grapes,blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries, in several varieties each. A75,000-gallon rainwater catchment system keeps it all watered through thesummer. Kids have a playhouse, sandbox, small soccer field, a favorite climbingtree, and a parking loop where bikes can circle but cars can’t; adults havea workshop, garden shed, fire pit, quiet space and big community porches. The common hall is the heart of the village: a commercial kitchen anyresident can use, a kids’ play area, pool table and ping pong, and asoapstone stove that burns every winter evening. Residents can reserve it forevents for almost nothing. The historic farmhouse has guest rooms owners canbook for visiting family (about 30 nights a year). Shared laundry rooms(three washers and dryers) come with indoor drying racks and outdoorclotheslines, and there’s a craft room and a trade room where things you nolonger need find a new home next door. Potlucks, communitymeals, work parties, and acres of safe space for kids to roam makethis a rare chance to own a home and a neighborhood at the same time. Built in 1973 and fully remodeled in 2008–09 for energy efficiency and healthy indoor air — metal roof, HardiePlank siding, and standard community-built finishes throughout. Nothing to update, nothing deferred. The $522 monthly HOA coverswater, sewer, and garbage, plus the roof, siding, exterior paint, and allstructural maintenance — and it’s what pays for the grounds, the common hall,and everything else described above. And it’s close in: Cully’s cafés andparks are a short walk or bike ride away, the rest of Portland’s food,music, and neighborhoods are minutes beyond that, and the commute downtownor to the airport is easy by car, bus, or bike – 3.7-acre grounds with organic gardens, personal plots, greenhouses, native plantings, and mature trees (huge black walnut)- Orchard: apples, pears, plums, figs, mulberries, chestnuts, walnuts, grapes, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries- 75,000-gallon rainwater catchment feeds the gardens year-round- Workshop, garden shed, fire pit, quiet space, community porches  
Need
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  • Forming Communities
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A call for pioneers, trade-builders, and the four Elemental Elders to construct our first cooperative village prototype.

Intake Open: Flagship WE Network Village in Clubb, MO Call for pioneers, trade-builders, and 4 Elemental Elders to construct our first cooperative village prototype. WE Network is opening ground zero in Clubb, Missouri—our living model to build trade shops and train leadership teams for nationwide village rollout. We are building a self-sustaining, salvaged homestead ecosystem operating as a parallel society alongside existing systems. Bring your own living setup (tents, micro-campers, trucks, schoolies, tiny homes) to secure your lot within the co-op village. The 3×3 Exchange: Mental, Physical, & Spiritual Maintain your lot via our 3×3 exchange (3 hours/day, 3 days/week = 9 hours total): Mental: Classroom teaching, strategy, skill-sharing, and village instruction. Physical: Hands-on labor building active land and shop projects. Spiritual: Participation in our weekly Friday Fellowship Fire Circle. Trade Shops & Lot Placement Every member contributes directly to our local micro-economy: Trade Holders: Set up your specific service shop for the co-op. Transitioning Members: Assigned a trade lot to focus on constructing the physical shop structure. Weekend Operations: Retail open Saturdays and Sundays. Mid-week is reserved for building and life. Priority Intake: The Four Elemental Elders We are recruiting four foundational Elders: Earth Elder: Land, soil, livestock, permaculture, and natural materials. Air Elder: Building structures and Eco Junk waste-to-material upcycling. Fire Elder: Spiritual health, Natural Law, body healing, and Fire Circles. Water Elder: Resource flow, food storage, bookkeeping, and services. How to Apply 👉 Visit fffc.wtf to submit your intake request today.
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2 days ago

Community Planning, Facilitation & Coaching for Intentional Communities

Through Radicle Collective, I support intentional communities and the people within them as they navigate the practical and relational work of building life together. My work can include visioning and community planning, facilitated conversations and retreats, decision-making and governance design, conflict transformation, establishing group agreements, culture-building, and individual or group coaching. I work with communities at many stages – whether it’s a few people exploring whether to live together, a fledgling community developing its foundations, or an established community in transition or conflict. I draw from training in psychology, coaching, urban and regional planning, facilitation, Nonviolent Communication, permaculture, and related practices to approach community as a living system – one shaped by individual needs, relationships, shared structures, place, and the connections between them. Rather than bringing a single model for how community should work, I help groups understand what is happening across those different layers, surface what matters, work honestly with difference, and create structures and practices that support connection, agency, belonging, and the values that brought them together in the first place. I’m based in Berlin and available to work online or in person, depending on location and scope. I offer sliding-scale pricing and am open to creative forms of exchange where appropriate. If your community is forming, stuck, changing, or simply wants some skilled outside support for an important conversation, I’d be glad to explore what might be useful. You can learn more about my work and get in touch at radiclecollective.com.
Need
  • Forming Communities
4 weeks ago

Looking for: people building relational capacity, with a view to community

What’s here now: An intention, a framework developed over five years, and a programme running in central Victoria to find people to build with. No land, no group, no timeline. The question this is organised around: What makes a community of people living together sustainable over decades – where people enjoy being there, conflict is low, and the conflict that does arise gets handled in ways people value. The distinctive premise is capacity before formation. Most communities form first and build relational skill afterwards, usually under pressure. This one proposes doing it the other way round: people build the capacities first, and the group forms from people who have them. That includes a working idea about collective capacity – that a group has a ratio, and below some threshold it can’t metabolise its own conflict and starts consuming itself. Roughly: in a group of twenty, perhaps three or four with high capacity, most in the middle, and very few without. Untested, and something this project exists to find out. Governance: Sociocracy, with the intention of testing it meaningfully at scale rather than adopting it nominally. What’s actually happening: A three-week residency at a property near Castlemaine, and a practice group running before it. The medium-term aim is twenty to forty people at a rented facility. The long-term aim is a support hub sharing the framework more widely. What I’m looking for: People who want to build this capacity seriously, and who might eventually want to build something together. Not necessarily people who want to live here – the current property probably isn’t the long-term site. Happy to hear from anyone this resonates with, including people already in community who’d rather share what they’ve learned than join anything.

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