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Website: http://www.breitenbush.com/
City: Detroit
State: Oregon
Zip: 97342-0578
Contact Email: office@breitenbush.com
Contact Phone: 503-854-3320
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We are an intentional community and worker-owned cooperative that operates Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat and Conference Center, hosting 25,000 guests annually. Sixty miles east of Salem, Oregon, Breitenbush sits on 155 acres in ancient forests of the Cascades. Our community ranges from 45-60 adults and children. We are off the grid, using hydro and geothermal, and practice low-impact Earth stewardship.

The Members of the worker-owned cooperative make major decisions about community and business affairs at annual meetings, and elect the Board of Directors from their midst to oversee operations. The Business, Financial, Facilities, and Marketing & Events Directors all work as a team and report to the Board. To become a worker-owner, a community member must be employed for one year, be an employee in good standing, and purchase a membership share of $3,600 (which can be paid with an interest-free loan at $50/paycheck).

The community lives across the river from the retreat center in an ecovillage setting. We have regular community sharings, and three times a year we close for a four-day community renewal where we join together for training, fun, and community building.

We live a rich, full life here. We delight in an abundance of diverse people, innovative ideas, healing practices, friendships, and challenges.

From our credo: “Our primary service is to provide a healing retreat and conference center that promotes holistic health and spiritual growth. We mutually support and respect each person’s dignity, and awaken to the Spirit within each of us that acknowledges we are all One… It is our hope that the thriving Community which we create will be an inspiration to others in their exploration of lifestyle and community. We also extend ourselves to the greater society in which we live, the world community, and commit ourselves to being socially, spiritually, politically, and environmentally responsible.”

Website: https://www.retribe.org/community-living-program
City: Underhill
State: Vermont
Zip: 05489
Contact Email: Jane@retribe.org
Contact Phone: 609 933 0877
Contact Name: Julia

We became stewards of the land we call the Shire in 2018. Our land is 80 acres of fields and forests with a swimming pond and a brook with waterfalls. We live at the base of Mt. Mansfield, Vermont’s tallest mountain, which is so beautiful to see every day. Mt. Mansfield state forest, the states largest forest at 44,444 acres, is less than a mile down the road with many miles of hiking trails including the long trail that runs the length of Vermont

Residents live in 2 buildings with large private rooms and shared bathrooms. There is a large dining hall, commercial kitchen and meeting space that the community shares. We also have an art studio, extensive library, workshop, guest bedrooms, communal office spaces with high speed internet and private offices available to rent.

The Shire is also an educational center and is open for programming beyond just the community that lives here. The main business that uses the space is ReTribe which runs summer camps and forest school programs in the woods and hosts retreats for teens and adults. Other health and educationally focused retreats rent the space a few times a year. The fusion of business and community can be challenging but also provides a purpose and economic opportunities for residents

Website: http://highdesertpermaculture.org
City: Meadview
State: Arizona
Zip: 86444
Contact Email: christine@highdesertpermaculture.org
Contact Phone: +19282249663
Contact Name: Christine Baker

I was hoping for several residents to grow organic food and build/finish adobe, cob, and lime projects.
Would love to live in an adobe tiny home and share the house for communal dinners, etc.

Website: https://www.edenhope.org/
City: Tasmate
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Contact Email: edenhopefoundation@pm.me
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Contact Name: Ljubica Temelkoska-Adams, Jonathan Adams

In one of the wildest and most remote places on earth, we are a community of friends living in harmony with nature on the path of self-realization and mindfulness. Established over a decade ago by Stephen and Ruth Quinto, our community is located in a designated Community Conservation Area on the West Coast of Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu.

Since the origin of the Edenhope projects, the Founders’ dream was to establish a sanctuary in the heart of nature, a community where seekers of truth could congregate and live harmoniously together to contribute to the highest good for mankind.

↠ our daily lives are structured around active community service, mindfulness practices and quiet communion with nature.

↠ we integrate the discipline of meditation into the practicalities of daily life in an off-grid ecovillage

↠ as a group, we are co-creating a field of living awareness that uplifts each & every community member

↠ as an energy management principle, conservation is a way of living without causing or suffering from the impacts of environmental stress, and this principle applies to the community as well as to each individual living here

↠ our ecovillage is located in a registered Conservation Area in the Espiritu Santo Mountain Chain, a globally recognised Biodiversity Hotspot and is the only Nature Preserve that we know of which includes homo sapiens as a protected species.

↠ we follow practices and teachings from traditions that nurture spiritual development

↠ the way of life we offer is profoundly healing & transformative in its simplicity; we are all here to share in the journey of Self-realisation

↠ we offer a sanctuary from the dissonance of the contemporary world with guidance & friendship to support spiritual growth

Website: https://nomadcohousing.org
City: Boulder
State: Colorado
Zip: 80304
Contact Email: live@nomadcohousing.org
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Contact Name: Nomad Cohousing

Nomad Cohousing is an 11-unit urban community on a one-acre site, two miles from downtown Boulder. Our common dining area is attached to a community playhouse, the Nomad Theater.. We are adjacent to a small shopping center (market, restaurants, liquor store, cafe, and cleaners), and within a couple of minutes walk of the foothills and Boulder Mountain open space. We are a block from a major bus route.

We are a diverse community, we value difference, We aspire to be aware and respond to our overt and covert biases.

Website: https://icmatch.org/groups/the-humanity-lab/
City: Tulum
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Contact Email: info@thehumanitylab.space
Contact Phone: 3221071423
Contact Name: Alan Price

A question I keep sitting with: how many of us are quietly waiting for the right intentional community while life keeps moving?
I got tired of waiting alone. So I’ve started building an on-ramp — and I’m looking for people who want to help shape it.
The Humanity Lab is a proposal: 4–10 people sharing a home in Tulum for 1–3 months, targeting around June. Real life, real work, real rent — alongside people chosen for alignment and heart, with an operating system built around self-awareness, conscious communication, and collaborative decision-making.
Not a retreat. Not a commune. A container — safe to enter, clear when it ends, and what you learn you carry home.
This is an early proposal, not a finished thing. The right people will help shape what it becomes.
Details in the doc: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ew2CZACSL8_1U5biW8OFwWoo59vvMTCS/view
Questions, ideas, and hell yeses welcome — DM me or email info@thehumanitylab.space

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City: Borja
State:
Zip: 50540
Contact Email: liuramae@gmail.com
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Contact Name: Asociacion Planeta Gaia

Liuramae is a living community space in Spain where multiple aligned projects converge: the non-profit Asociación Planeta Gaia, the ecological enterprise Promociones Naturales ChrisGaia Siglo XXI SL, the central oratory of the Conchera Tradition of Hispania, and the ChrisGaia School of Miyo Fiel. The space also welcomes workshops and gatherings focused on spirituality, consciousness, and ecology.
The community offers two models of living: company members reside in their own private homes on the land, while association members share a communal house with private rooms and shared common areas. A stable community of 12 people — all association members — gathers every Wednesday morning to collaborate on communal tasks and share a meal together. The association also includes non-resident members who participate in assemblies and community life.
Together, Liuramae weaves a rhythm of intentional living rooted in indigenous wisdom, ecological values, and collective growth.

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City: East Lansing
State: Michigan
Zip: 48823
Contact Email: cnmayworm@gmail.com
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**WE ARE LOOKING FOR NEW MEMBERS!**

The Montie House Cooperative is a cooperative housing organization. At its maximum, our house can fit 40 individuals. We aim to house about 20-30 at any given time. We have a large shared kitchen, several large common spaces, a TV room with double-decker couches, a projector, a workout room, and several small-to-large rooms. Sounds awesome, right? Unfortunately the house is super old and needs tons of work. Worsening effects of climate change are posing new threats like flash flooding. Our members pool our monthly membership fees to cover repair materials, and we pay our membership for conducting maintenance. We also use our pooled membership fees to cover utilities like electric, water, internet, and gas. We cover pantry staples like flour, dry beans, canned veggies, sugar, spices. We also cover toilet paper, toilet cleaner, kitchen cleaning products and more. Uhhhh we usually host at least one big event per month, lots of live music. We end by 11pm to avoid getting in trouble with the city. We are doing a bunch of garden and native planting projects on our relatively small lawn space! We also have our own compost!

We are completely independent – our membership votes to designate some members to serve on our executive board. That’s how we run the house!

We use Discord for our group chat.

There are a lot of student housing cooperatives in the area, but this one has a slightly older average age versus the nearby student communities. It’s a chiller environment which prioritizes strong communication as the basis of a strong community.

The house can get dirty – it’s definitely at 18+ community. Pets are not guaranteed to be let in and have to be voted on separately from new members.

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City: Asheville
State: North Carolina
Zip: 28805
Contact Email: sarab.jyoth@icloud.com
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Contact Name: Sarab

Playful Catholic Forest Growers is a forming intentional community rooted in joy, stewardship of the land, and a living devotion to Yeshua in the Catholic tradition. We are gathering people who want to pray, work, dance, grow food, and play together while cultivating a forest‑centered, regenerative way of life.

Our vision is simple and bold: to build a small, vibrant community where faith, creativity, and ecological care are woven into daily rhythm. We honor Catholic sacramental life while embracing a spirit of play, embodied movement, and shared labor. We believe holiness can be expressed through tending soil, singing around a fire, learning from the forest, and supporting one another in becoming fully alive.

We imagine a place where:
Prayer and spiritual practice are woven into the week—Mass, Lectio Divina, contemplative silence, and simple liturgies.
Land stewardship is central—forest gardening, regenerative agriculture, native species cultivation, and hands‑on ecological restoration.
Embodied joy is welcomed—dance, music, movement, and play as expressions of gratitude and community bonding.
Shared work builds connection—gardening, building, cooking, and caring for the land together.
Hospitality is a core value—welcoming visitors, pilgrims, and friends who resonate with our way of life.
Formation and growth are ongoing—learning from Scripture, tradition, the land, and one another.

We are currently in the early forming stage and are seeking people who feel called to co‑create a small, grounded, spiritually rooted, and joy‑filled community in the forests of Western North Carolina. You don’t need to share our beliefs to apply, but you should feel comfortable living alongside people for whom faith is central. We welcome anyone drawn to a life of simplicity, service, and delight.

If you feel drawn to a life where prayer, play, and ecological stewardship meet, we’d love to connect.

Website: http://www.solterra.net/
City: Durham
State: North Carolina
Zip: 27705
Contact Email: solterra_info@googlegroups.com
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Contact Name: Solterra

Solterra is a cohousing community nestled in a semirural area close to Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. We enjoy Durham city services and excellent nearby public and private schools.

Our 20 acres are open and wooded, and adjoin 100 wooded acres recently made into a park, so our community is immune from adjacent development. Homes are single-family and privately owned. Each home is car-accessible. Members share common lands, paths, play spaces, a common house, roads, a large dog park, and a large common garden.

Our members come from every part of the country and range in age from small children to senior citizens. Our interests are broad, and our consensus form of management includes committees to oversee all phases of development and Solterra social life.

We share meals most Sunday and Tuesday evenings. Eating choices vary from meat-eating to vegan, and our common meals reflect this. There are 37 resident families currently.

Website: https://www.tenstonescommunity.com
City: Charlotte
State: Vermont
Zip: 05445
Contact Email: tenstonesinfo@gmail.com
Contact Phone:
Contact Name: Rachael Miller

Ten Stones is a multi-generational cohousing community in Charlotte, VT organized and maintained by its 17 member-families. The community name and idea was established in 1989 and land was purchased in 1992. It embraces a total of 87.4 acres of woodland, meadow, and preserved agricultural land with 16 clustered, privately owned, half-acre home sites. Residents live in a close-knit neighborhood that seeks a healthy blend of privacy and community. We have no common creed other than a desire to live cooperatively, ecologically, and economically.

Website: https://wildgracecommunity.com/
City: North San Juan
State: California
Zip: 95960
Contact Email: muffyweaver@mac.com
Contact Phone:
Contact Name: Muffy and Glenn

We are in a time of great transformation on our planet, a time of co-creation with Spirit for the creation of the New. Darkness is being brought to light. Old structures are being reshaped and aligned with Spirit. We join together in community to love, serve, and remember. We join together in community to benefit all that we cherish.

Wild Grace provides an opportunity for an intimate group/sangha to focus on deepening in spiritual practice, authentic relating, stewarding this sacred land, and serving our collective expansion of consciousness as we foster and transmit love, tenderness, and compassion. We are dedicated to life-long learning of the skills needed to communicate, heal, and live fully together in Love, Oneness, and Presence. We invite a leader-full community in which everyone brings forth their gifts and shares in the responsibility of co-creating community—thinking like a village.

The seed of community was planted at Wild Grace over a decade ago when several families moved onto adjacent undeveloped land. Now it is growing as something both social and sacred with the intent to more intimately weave our lives together and co-create a conscious eco-spiritual community. The vision for our community was received in the summer of 2020 and nine people responded. We call our community adventure Wild Grace Community.

We are located on 80 acres overlooking the wild and scenic South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California. A 1300 sq.ft. two-bedroom, two bath, plus office home was recently completed along with other living spaces for singles or couples. All residents have a source of income for living expenses including rent. In our recently completed temple we have daily meditations, weekly dance and Qi Gong classes, musical gatherings, inspirational sharings, and seasonal ceremonies. Currently we come together twice weekly for meals, we meditate most mornings together, have weekly heart circles where we practice trauma informed authentic relating, work in the garden and orchard, and host potlucks and kirtans for the larger community.

At the center of each of our lives is deep listening to Spirit although it takes many expressions. We draw from many inspirational sources including A Course of Love, Choose Only Love, Thomas Huebl, Terry Patten, Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hahn, Yogananda, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and Francis Weller. Some community members have lived in intentional spiritual community, including Ananda Village.

We join in community to realize our potential. With open hearts we practice with different ways of creating compassionate union and relationship as we stay fluid and discover what works best. We make use of structure but seek to hold it neither too tightly nor too loosely. We are blessed to have each other as we learn to be more authentic and mindful. And we are willing to embrace the messiness that sometimes arises with transformation.

We listen to the whispers of our individual and collective souls and the soul of Earth. We embrace both the transcendental and human aspects of the Divine. As our collective suffering is held in a communal container it opens us to the flow of grace. We are deepened as we embrace both grief and gratitude. We practice loving kindness and tenderness in response to our own and other’s suffering. This is our deep and continual practice.

Website: https://westchesterclubhouse.org/
City: New Rochelle
State: New York
Zip: 10801
Contact Email: 0929electric@protonmail.com
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Contact Name: Dominik, Sumit and Craig

We are a community of like minded and not so like minded individuals emphasizing inclusiveness of neurodivergence as it relates to artistic creativity. Now more than ever, the arts are a savior in this harsh political turmoil.  If you’d rather spend time in an art gallery than at a post office, this is the place for you! if you hate the dmv but like Tuscany’s rolling hills, this is the place for you!

If you like life and everything that it could be but currently isn’t, welcome home! If you have a tiny bit of money and would rather spend that on us as a collective humanity instead of your apartment’s rental cost, please join us with your money and with your soul. Thanks!!!!!

Website:
City: Montecito
State: California
Zip: 93108
Contact Email: jordanschachter@gmail.com
Contact Phone:
Contact Name:

This is not a secret society, but we live in a $15 million estate amongst the wealthiest and most reclusive Americans. It’s common to see Joy, Peace, and Love (JPL) from TRIUMPHS
Transformation
Resolution
Insight
Understanding
Mastery
Proof
Healing
Success
If happiness requires TRIUMPHS, favorable circumstances, and things going your way, JPL will be conditional, fragile, and brief.
In short, there’s a price to be paid when happiness needs a reason. This is a price most pay and few question the cost. The mind insists happiness needs a reason, but we disagree.
You can spend your entire life trying to chase happiness. “Why am I unhappy? How do I get more joy? Who to blame? What to credit? How to avoid boredom?”
Each time we see those questions arise, we say HEAT (happiness exists alongside that). The key isn’t to arrange life to deliver cJPL, but to bring CEU to a mind that keeps insisting that your happiness must be earned, explained, and protected. There is a waiting list and anyone who moves into the property (or nearby to take classes), is asked to read our founder’s books about compassion, empathy, and unity. The founder has no influence beyond answering questions about the books. Nobody will seek to limit your agency and rental is month to month so you can leave with 30 days notice. Will the residents of this house change the world? After 150+ years, we haven’t. But might as well try! If you are in the area, let’s meet or send an email to get a link to the books (all under $10). There is no charge for classes and you would only pay rent.

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City: Belen
State:
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Contact Email: atlantiscol@hotmail.com
Contact Phone: 123-456-7890
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Atlantis formed in London in 1970 as a self-help therapy centre, moved to an Irish island in 1974 then to the Colombian Andes in 1987, our emphasis shifting to ecology and food self-sufficiency. We ran a “green theatre” in Colombia for many years with the commune children as the main performers. Now grown up, some of the girls of our group are accomplished musicians, composers, artists and dancers. None of the children had any formal schooling whatsoever. They were taught to work on practical farm tasks from an early age, and allowed complete physical (and sexual) freedom, as long as the adults’ space was not intruded upon.

Visitors are welcome any time, we appreciate physical help according to your age, strength and preferences, no money involved. And of course a sense of humour, an open mind and a willingness to engage in straight talking helps. A firm rootedness in the physical world is essential. We are not “politically correct” in any way and don’t appreciate modern rules about what one may or may not say, and don’t obey any of them.

The commune is in its “autumnal” phase as the many generations of English, Irish and Colombian youngsters we have brought up have gone their ways. The present age range is 39 to 82 years with a steady but small central nucleus of a handful of people; but many visitors passing through. We are thoroughly ’embedded’ in the local community and every single day of our lives, local people are in and out sharing and exchanging produce, services, and some are paid workers but also close friends. Two of us now have local Colombian male partners who also have their own farms nearby but spend time here. Many neighbours are ‘part of the family.’ We are next door to another community, of ethnic Indians, who have their own language but relate easily to us.

We’re vegetarian, and revolutionary politically. Our food is organically grown. We don’t use drugs or smoke and stick to alternative medicine wherever possible; our lifestyle on the farm is 100 percent ecological. We reject practically all twentieth-century values. We have at present 35 hectares of forest, meadows, gardens, rivers and streams at around
5,000 ft with a mild climate. We accept hard physical work as part of natural living, but make sure there is time for rest, playing music and other cultural activities.

There are 10 books about the commune on www.theguildofwriters.com Atlantis section. Our ‘diaspora’ is now in Edinburgh, Scotland, no members left in Ireland.

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City: San Geronimo Valley
State: California
Zip: 94933
Contact Email: cohocanyon@gmail.com
Contact Phone:
Contact Name: Saskia

Coho Canyon is a micro-community founded in 1990 and best defined as a very small ecovillage forming the end  of a country road. Located in the south-facing hills of the San Geronimo Valley in West Marin County, California, we are in possession of two adjoining, sunny and woodsy parcels on a approx 55% hillside,  currently  (as owners of both, we can adjust the lot lines) , a 1 acre and an 11 acre parcel with 2 cottages on each, all near each other where the infrastructure was developed; a natural forest, steep but hike-able for forest immersion, with seasonal streams/waterfalls,  and wildlife to commune with, and different ecosystems at different levels (trees ( california oak, bay laurel, madrone, douglas fir),  coastal sage brush, monkeyflowers)…ridgetop with  dark sky and  expansive views. We border a 200 acre parcel of raw land, a rather inaccessible forest  with no access easement from here.
The 3 cottages and communal farmhouse are within a stone’s throw of each other, at different levels of an approx 1 acre hillside. The setting allows for  audio and visual privacy.
Anyone interested to rent from us ( up to 1 year) or otherwise plug in as not-for-profit shareholders should know that, due to its proximity both to San Francisco and wide expanses of protected nature areas, Marin County housing is quite pricey.  Our mortgage, property tax and home insurance overhead is pretty hefty.. doable with full house renters and/or sufficient  (3-5) co-holders coming in with 100K /each. Many hands make the work light, so we are open to  more people at lower initial cost, but there are only 3 cottages plus rooms in community house so you would  have to  like camping or have small camper van.   No  mortgage eligibility is necessary, but a subcontract by a coop lawyer with exit strategy, etc.  If you are eligible for your own financing, the 1 acre lot is appraised at $800 K, has its own title and easements in county records,  and we would just be nice (and close)  neighbors.

We are just 10 minutes west of the bohemian village of Fairfax which has a large natural foods store and plenty of live music and dance, cinema, cultural and educational events, a Summer farmers market, a Kazbah-style  Tea Temple with  events, etc.

The local economy is such that it is easy to earn a good living if you have entrepreneurial skills and/or a good work ethic.
Unfortunately, the land is still encumbered with a mortgage, high property tax and high home and  fire insurance, so we cannot offer below market rental deals, nor work trade. (not making our monthly overhead would cause our little relic from the 70’s to succumb to the gentrification going on here, and it getting sold to a land developer…wouldn’t want that!).

Because of current Times of Great Turning, this is our last ditch effort to gather more buy-in members, and have the land continue to hold the mellow 70’s vibe,  have good things happening on and  from it ( as has happened since 1976) , and decommodify it when the mortgage is paid off, for the next generations ‘to have and to hold’…

This one -of- a- kind place is currently held, and the financing secured  by two people only. We are  ( 2026 on)  forming a legal framework for co-holding land,   and are actively  screening inquiries? applications for  up to 5 people to put in $100.000 each (or 3 ad 150K/ea)  who will have ownership shares with clear agreed on contracts for each person, and an exit strategy if ever needed..   You will still need a source of income to inhabit a dwelling, as there will still be  overhead costs ( below 3% rate mortgages, high property taxes, home insurance)

We are very open to ideas of what use you would want of the land in return ( but not speculation!), now or in the future, and the contracts would be supervised by a coop lawyer.

We would love for a conscious, inspiring  501c3 organization with fundraising  capability   to do the right thing here, and will work with them on a tier system to gain possession. So that the likelihood of the legacy perpetuating itself through the generations is the highest.
The good news is we have secured a new 30+ year fixed on our names as title holders, so we can relieve the next generation of the burden of trying to qualify for a loan, while still providing land-security. Incoming deposits from new members would be used to pay off some more cumbersome, smaller  equity loans.   We can always  engage with loans again if the person/org would need their money back. The CLTV is currently about 50-50. The monetary land value is quite high due to its location.

If anybody is in a position to lend us 150K at 7% interest only, 2 years max, we would rather pay monthly payments to a like-minded person. “Desperate times call for desperate measures”, and it feels nice to have your money in something safe and  tangible, like Earth. This is why we are resisting selling it all, besides having loved, maintained the vintage cottages, and rewilded the acreage  on this little  dot on Mother Earth for 35 years. It is time for the next generations now..

Our alternative is to sell it as a cul-de-sac estate on the market, but in our many years here of hosting community-seeking folks. we have heard that we are one of few communal, not-for-profit landholding ventures in the Bay Area, and pretty much the  only ‘hold-out’  from the 70’s.  We acquired it in 1990 from the original 1970’s community with 4 of us, to keep it off the real estate market back then. We found the oldtimers time capsule, and gave it to the valley historical museum. This is a legacy,  vintage land with grandfathered-in cottages, they have been maintained by various contractor friends after the first big overhaul, and they are in good working order,  and will continue to need basic maintenance of course as they date from 1940 to 1976 to 1994.

This listing is our last ditch effort  to change the  old paradigm,  individualistic profit motive in ‘real estate’  to a new paradigm of just co-holding land with like-minded people.  We would hear from you what your vision is for joining, when we meet and  you see and feel the land.

“It’s all stolen land.. “

Chief Seatlle 1854 speech to colonialists :”How can you buy or sell the  sky, the warmth of the land? ( etc).”

The legacy we’d like to leave going into the future is:

= decommodification. (if we thought it was okay to speculate with land, we would do that ourselves right now after 35 years of paying off speculating partners and  a lot of high interest loans and re-financing through all sorts of global financial crises and). We are actively engaged with the larger community in our valley around this issue through public meetings and personal connections.

= the 10 acre conservation nature easement we had surveyed registered in county records to prevent future development of our forest. ( if the primary mortgage would be paid off on that parcel, we could subdivide that off  and make it a conservation  land trust for wildlife and plant habitat , and be relieved of a lot of property tax….)

= for next generations of guardians to care for, and continue to do good works on and from here, and keep themselves and this endd-of-the-road hillside  land with its private driveway a safe haven for times to come.

= we are affiliating ourselves with  the Deep Ecology philosophy/reality, and with the re-wilding/restoration movements and efforts in our bioregion. .We are also actively involved in efforts to safeguard/rewild/rehabilitate  the larger ecosystems around us. (Coho salmon, wildflowers, native grasses, native Tule Elk on Pt Reyes Seashore..)

Our little eco-haven here is in a very desirable location, and we believe it may be the last acreage in the bay area where the conditions for  a rural community/co-housing are met and are already grandfathered in at the county.  It is still in our capable, idealistic hands, but if we sell one of the 2 parcels on the market, that chance is forever gone! If you are able to make a substantial donation to our 501 c 3 non-profit organization,  become lienholders in 2nd and 3rd position on title ( great CLTV right now) , and/0r  buy into a yet to be determined safe legal co-holdership framework  with guidance from FIC and other communities, you will help keep that possibility open for future generations.
We weathered storms, literally and figuratively here for almost 35 years years now, and did not succumb to the capitalist traps of real estate speculation (most exiting land partners did, whence the still high  mortgage:)).

This being communal land since 1976, we are unique in the area.
Idealism, integrity, and knowing we are mere temporary guardians, always wins!
We hope for same in the next guardianship, who will manifest their ideas suitable to their needs in these coming times. Although there is no need to be a ‘commune’, a common  general vision and like-minded/-hearted people  will be great, It can be a transactional relationship for those who have other reasons than making this home, and  close friendly neighbors, pref inter-generational, for those who do want to homebase here. New partners could help create win-win contracts, within the ramification of what we know is possible as long as the 10 acres are untouched and used for gentle forest immersion only.

We can free up  a 400 sq ft  and two 600 sq ft cottages, when  the rental leases expire (our cohabitants have been made aware of possible impending  sale before they moved in) .

The  1500 sq ft farmhouse has two 300 sq ft large rooms with private entrances, they can be freed up as well but we prefer to keep the center part semi-communal, following the co-housing model.

Sorry our land is not suitable for tiny homes:( It just does not work.

We are set up for dogs due to a  previous nonprofit dog rescue effort of 10 years, as one of our many ‘giving back’ and activism efforts. Pets would have to stay separated from the wildlife and kept as domestic companion animals.

The land has acquired many friends over the years: Young  international permaculture and such  students (through Wwoof.org ) come help us and meet minds and hearts with us on and off throughout the year. Our  ex-wwoofer millennial’ and ‘gen z’  bay area friends come and enjoy a decompressing  experience and help out.

We are looking forward to settling some matching people in here as a true long term home… as soon as possible though in these fast changing times of Great Turning
Travelers /activists/artists/musicians/gardeners with work ethic and skills are welcome to apply to come and home-base on the land and trade for short periods of time with a contract.
We are open to new visions and ideas on how this land can facilitate ceremony, and healing for the Earth…
Are you ready to help create a new paradigm where some form of community is the only sensible, and good way to live? Are you financially solvent and able to help us in any way to  keep this safe for generations? Would you want to telecommute from this place of quiet, endless nature, friendly folks, organic farms, small town social life and entertainment, if city-life feels too stressful or is not tenable? We are within an hour of the cities and there is public transportation, ferries, etc, so some commuting works as well. We are fully  ‘0n-grid’ although we certainly have the capability to be off-grid!

Do you have skills and abilities, a business sense and creativity, a desire to live simply with friendly neighbors doing same? Let’s do it!

Website: https://reimaginefayettecounty.org/
City: Champion
State: Pennsylvania
Zip: 15622
Contact Email: reimaginefayettecounty@gmail.com
Contact Phone:
Contact Name: Tami Gingrow, Elizabeth Lynch

We are a forming community, a work in progress. We have laid the groundwork by drafting plans and agreements and have created a 501(c)3. We have identified a 118-acre property with springs and streams that would be an ideal community location. Now we are ready to invite potential members and investors in so that we can purchase the land and start developing the big dream!

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City: Forks
State: Washington
Zip: 98331
Contact Email: rainforestcommons@protonmail.com
Contact Phone:
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Hello, welcome to our page!!

In 2021 a huge flood eroded the river bank that the community is on where we lost land 60 feet of land and two structures (no one was hurt). We decided that it would be dangerous to have a full time community live on the land. We however continue to visit and tend to the land throughout the year and the land is part of our strategy of resiliency in an ever changing and tumultuous world.

We prioritize sustainable living through community interdependence, and hope to provide space for everyone’s gifts to blossom. A primary focus of ours is living out a consciousness that is courageously focused on being present and attentive to the world- the ways in which it’s beautiful, and the ways in which it is scary, sad, and unjust. We see this presence as necessary to inform our vision and actions toward transformation in the world and any hope for a sustainable future. We are focused on embodying a community-oriented climate justice model both on the land and off-site involving food forestry, off grid living, and rural organizing. We are minimizing our fossil fuel use, trying to grow and forage our food, and live in hand made tiny homes on 5 acres on the Bogachiel River, in the Bogachiel rainforest.
Our community members have a range of focus and passions such as music, meditation, herbalism, permaculture, foraging, gardening, Nonviolent Communication facilitation, community organizing, gift economy, support for people who are incarcerated, decarceration, and transformative justice. We strive to honor the uniqueness of each individual, while acknowledging and responding in compassionate ways to the effects social structures have on our identities and lives. We see ourselves as a sanctuary for all, especially those who experience marginalization and oppression. When you come out here you can expect to be treated with respect and compassion. This space is cultivated for self-expression, creativity, and play! We deeply value action that comes from a place of purpose and joy, rather than obligation.
A few questions we ask people to answer to apply as a guest for this community so there might be some clarity for us about what you are fired up about in life:
-What draws you to be a part of this community space?-How do you embody your values in the world?-What is your focus in life? What do you hope to bring into your life by joining our community?-What are your plans for leaving? Where do you intend to go once your visit is complete? If you are planning to visit, please have a way to arrive and depart from Forks, WA.
These are values that we share: anti-racism, anti-fascism, anti-ableism, anti-sexism, lgbtq+ inclusive, anti-authoritarian, co-operative, sharing, conflict resolution, decolonization, anti-imperialism, trauma healing, anti-capitalism, anti-state, gift economy, and the abolition of prisons/police/colonial courts/borders/slavery/and all currencies. Based on our experience in our community, if you are not willing to work through conflict, it won’t be a good fit for you living out here. Conflict is part of life and living in community and we strive to move through conflict more skillfully each time it comes up.
An important disclosure is that, though we are in the process of building up our off-grid infrastructure, we have wood heat, water catchment, an outdoor shower, and very limited electricity. Another thing to consider is that we live 20 minutes from Forks, WA and 1.5 hours from Port Angeles. It’s a very common experience to feel lonely out here because of how far we are from other friends and family. One of the remedies for this loneliness is to be in community together: sharing stories, playing music, cooking, gardening, swimming in the river, sharing feelings, sharing dreams (the ones from sleep and the ones for the future), creating art, and sharing skills.

Other points if affinity include-
Herbalism, music making, crafting, food preservation, Nonviolent Communication, abolitionist organizing, rural organizing, the Land Back movement.

Thank you for stopping by and reading what we have to say! We look forward to meeting you!! 🙂

Website: http://www.bhfh.org/
City: Boston
State: Massachusetts
Zip: 02108-3624
Contact Email: info@bhfh.org
Contact Phone: 617-227-9118
Contact Name:

Beacon Hill Friends House is:
– a cooperative residence for those interested in community living
– a center for public educational programming that supports personal and spiritual deepening
– a public meeting & event space welcoming a wide range of community groups
– a Quaker nonprofit organization, and the longtime home of Beacon Hill Friends Meeting (an independent Quaker congregation)

Beacon Hill Friends House is located on historic Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts, a few blocks from the State House. The building was originally built in 1803. Since being given to Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1957, the building has become a center for the Quaker community and others in the Boston area.

Beacon Hill Friends House fulfills its mission by:
– providing a center where Friends and others can meet, worship, and study
– offering opportunities for the development of personal growth and deepening
– maintaining a diverse residential community guided by Friends’ principles
– providing hospitality to visitors in our B&B style guest rooms
– advancing and fostering the principles of the Religious Society of Friends

21 Residents (of many faith and non-faith traditions) live at the house for up to four years. We create community through house dinners cooked by our kitchen manager, sharing chores and community-building responsibilities, and two house meetings a month. We welcome residency applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, beliefs, sexualities, backgrounds, etc.

Website: https://hexapod.weebly.com
City: Cambridge
State: Massachusetts
Zip: 02139
Contact Email: hexapodhouse@gmail.com
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We are a six-bedroom intentional community (spanning both units of a two-unit building) in the Central Square neighborhood of Cambridge, MA. Our values including cooking and sharing meals together, playing games together, building community through hosting events, and sharing with each other the things that delight us in life!

We have a shared mostly vegetarian food system (with limited purchases of sustainable seafood), although housemates may choose to individually purchase meat or other food items. Every housemate cooks one meal per month for the house, and additional cooking and community-building efforts are built into the chores system.

We occupy both units of a two-unit building on a relatively quiet street near Central Square and MIT. We have two main common spaces on the first floor, including ample kitchen space, with six bedrooms distributed across the second and third floors. With six bathrooms, the house has a luxurious bathroom-to-resident ratio! The house was renovated in 2010 and has built-in heat and air conditioning, tankless water heaters, and two sets of in-unit laundry machines. We also have ample bike storage in an enclosed back porch, driveway parking spots, and a spacious backyard that has hosted a container garden, potlucks, and outdoor movies. We have interest in converting much of the lawn to native vegetation, or putting it to other uses that benefit the household and the broader community.

Website:
City: Topeka
State: Kansas
Zip: 66603
Contact Email: positivelivingbmt@gmail.com
Contact Phone:
Contact Name:

Iron Water Collective is located in Topeka Ks. We have traditional jobs currently but don’t require others to do traditional work full time.  We are interested in sharing our home with like minded individuals.  Like minded means tolerant. We are diverse in our values, religious beliefs and political views. We all enjoy the beauty of our differences. The one ideal we all share is our sense of community. We feel that hard work shared between a group creates great things in addition to providing for our basic needs. We are as varied in our diets as we are in our beliefs. Hopefully, potential members will have the same tolerant mindset as all of us. We don’t have to all agree or be carbon copies of each other to get along.
We value hard work and anyone wishing to join us will need to be willing to work as hard as we do. It actually only takes a couple focused hours each day to contribute enough to provide for yourself and others when everyone is giving of themselves equally. We not only welcome but will appreciate people who have unique skills and perspectives to offer.

Send us an email if you have any questions or think you might want to join us.

Website: https://heartbeet.org/
City: Hardwick
State: Vermont
Zip: 05843
Contact Email: info@heartbeet.org
Contact Phone: 802-472-3285
Contact Name: Shasta Singley

Heartbeet Lifesharing is a licensed non-profit licensed therapeutic community residence for individuals with developmental disabilities located in Hardwick, Vermont. In addition, Heartbeet is also a vibrant Camphill community that interweaves the social and agricultural realms and is fully dedicated to the healing and renewing of our society and the earth.

Guided by anthroposophical principles, we recognize the interconnectedness of body, soul, and spirit, and strive to support each other’s inner journeys through our daily lives, learning, and work. Community members live and work together, in beautiful extended family households, forming a mutually supportive environment that enables each individual to discover and develop their unique abilities and potential.

Come see what puts the HEART in Heartbeet today!

Website: http://www.camphillvillage.org/
City: Copake
State: New York
Zip: 12516-1400
Contact Email: volunteer@camphillvillage.org
Contact Phone: 518-329-4851
Contact Name: Eileen Tau

Camphill Village USA is a unique and vibrant life-sharing community of 250 individuals, including 95 adults with developmental disabilities. Founded in Copake, New York in 1961, Camphill Village USA is the oldest and largest Camphill community in North America and sits on 615 acres of verdant hills, pastures, and beautiful gardens in southern Columbia County. Camphill Village is part of the international Camphill Movement, which is based on the insights of anthroposophy, the philosophy, world view, and spiritual path of Rudolf Steiner Ph.D. Life at Camphill Village is based on the active affirmation of the dignity, spiritual integrity, and valued contribution of each individual.

Website: http://sunburstnh92.wixsite.com/sunburstnh
City: Alton
State: New Hampshire
Zip: 03809
Contact Email: sunburstnh@proton.me
Contact Phone: 6033126735
Contact Name: Dee or Peter

Sunburst is a community whose ideology revolves around agriculture, education for all ages, combining alternative-technology education with holistic living.

Our goal is to provide our essential needs for food, shelter, energy, healing, companionship and self-actualization by sustainable growing practices, regenerative farming techniques, harvesting renewable energy for heat, electricity and mechanical work, our goal is to be completely off grid, utilizing solar and other best practices.

On occasion, shared meals, dances, optional spirit practices as well as regular meetings and shared work on the grounds.

We intend to generate value for ourselves, for each other and for our neighbors, caring for animals, wild and domestic, potential animal sanctuary, selling extra food and plant medicine, education, forest products, alternative energy technology, natural healing and other business ventures.

Sunburst consists of 84 acres, 50 are in farmable conservation. We currently have 2 hoop houses 30 x 72′, a 40′ geodesic dome, a converted schoolie, and two 40′ shipping containers.

Intentions for our land will hold a teaching center, alternative housing such as tiny homes, yurts, tipis, schoolie, Earthship, tree houses, with emphasis on small, energy efficient, simple buildings, using recycled and local materials, when possible, with centralized community space for dinners, music, dancing, lectures and movies.

An ideal intention, would include natural healing, accomplished through the innate healing abilities of our bodies, assisted by practitioners of chiropractic, massage, meridian therapy, herbalism, reiki, counseling and yoga. For our purification, our community will have facilities for bathing, swimming, hot water soaks, sauna, and sweat lodges.

Food production will be from foraging, gardening, greenhouse hydroponics, aeroponics, aquaculture, farming, permaculture and agroforestry.

We would like our community to be an exemplary model of responsible living on planet earth, teaching others our culture, on site and on www.

Visitors are encouraged to come and learn, for a few hours, a few days or a few weeks, with several options for exchange of value.

Some of the interests and skills of current community members are solar and wind power, compost heating, filtered rainwater, natural-style parenting, greenhouse farming, homeschooling, music, and worker-owned cooperative businesses.

The community plans to be self-supporting, providing jobs through intense aquaculture, hydroponics, beekeeping, internet business, recumbent-bicycle making, soap making and perfumes. Sunburst is a home for those who share high ideals and who know that tomorrow is built today. We are presently in the formative stages.

We want our members to reside in “tiny homes”, members can bring their own or reside in ours. As of yet we have no hookups for an RV, we have no electric, no sewer, no water. We welcome people who have “tiny homes and/or small homes on trailers” to join us at our community now. We are in the process of purchasing a community building where we will have meetings and group dinners. The community house will include an aquaculture system utilizing fish and vegetables. Also, we plan to install an underground thermal storage tank for our compost heating system combined with our solar hot water and rocket stove’s.

We are building the relationships and the organizational foundations of a community. Like-minded persons who are ready to develop and explore themselves in a setting of openness and trust are invited to inquire about Sunburst, either as prospective members or as investors in a socially responsible alternative environment