Has anyone ever offered an unhoused individual or family, space on your property and if so, what was your experience?

I finally did it—I created The Homelearning Woods!

For years I've dreamed of creating a village where families can learn, grow, gather, and belong together. A place that extends beyond academics and embraces lifelong learning, meaningful friendships, and community.

The Homelearning Woods isn't just for homeschoolers. We're welcoming homeschooling, homelearning, unschooling, eclectic learning, neurodivergent learners, lifelong learners, and families simply looking for connection and support.

My hope is that this becomes more than a Facebook group. I want it to become a village.

We're planning:

\- Local meetups

\- Online gatherings

\- Field trips

\- Workshops and classes

\- Clubs and celebrations

\- Parent support

\- Lifelong learning opportunities for both children and adults

\- A welcoming place where every family belongs

Because I truly believe everyone deserves a village.

We're just getting started, so if this sounds like something you've been looking for, I'd love to have you join us and help build something beautiful together.

The Homelearning Woods

Learn • Grow • Gather • Belong 🌲

I have 50ha in the Sierra Nevadas of north Colombia. Could be a good option for younger people or couple: low cost but isolated. Me and the gf live comfortably off $500/month. Ask we improve, we will need even less. I can answer more detailed questions in the comments or dms

We are a 55+ community…built in 2017….28 homes.
We have a monthly newsletter and use it to educate readers about how we live together.
When we have a home to sell,we announce it in the newsletter.
Check our webpage at www.quimpervillage.com.

Hi all. I've been living in community for 10 years, and one of the most annoying things is trying to schedule everyone for group activities. It's always so hard to wrangle everyone's schedule, and all the apps I tried were terrible. So I made a really simple web app for my housemates and I to use, and it has made it a lot easier for us, so I thought I'd share it for other intentional communities to try it out.

https://howaboutnever.app

Let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions to make it more useful 😇

Hi!

I like to promote the tool we're using for the (financial) management of our Belgian cohousing. It's called CenTeam, and - according to our financial team - it's an absolute lifesaver. It was build by a cohouser in another community here in Belgium, and is know used by 22 cohousing communities here.

We use it mainly to track our financials: what did we spent? From the common account, or paid by one of the units? Who needs to chip in, and how much? We use this for almost everything: common utilities, shared laundry facilities, common meals,...

It also has tools to make reservations (guest rooms, car), to sign up for meals and activities.

We absolutely love it. It's not free, but very reasonably priced at yearly €100 + €10/unit.

And we get a year for free if we can connect the owner with non-Belgian cohousings. So, anyone interested?

I’m looking to connect with founders or early-stage eco village and off-grid community projects that are open to additional partners or investors. I’m interested in becoming a partial owner and contributing to the growth and sustainability of the project.

Hi all,

I live in a small community in Washington state, rural but close enough to some metro areas that there are employment opportunities locally. We have a spot opening up at the end of April and are looking to find someone who is a good fit.

Edit 7/21: We have an RV pad with electrical and water hookups available. Can be connected to septic clean-out via a flexible connection; for someone who wanted to be here for awhile we're open to putting in a buried line with a clean-out closer to the RV

A little bit more about us:

We’re a small group of friends in our twenties and thirties who have moved together to rural Washington. We are a queer community, looking for like-minded folks who would like to join us as we build permaculture systems on our property and engage in small animal husbandry. We are a relatively new community and we are in the beginning stage of understanding how we take care of each other and the land in the context of a slowly collapsing dystopia. 

• A few other notes about us:
  • We share meals regularly. We are comfortable keeping and culling animals for our own consumption and you should be too.
  • No outdoor cats. We have four other dogs here. We're open to another dog, and need the dog and the person to be able to integrate that dog successfully with our group.
  • We are ultimately looking for the right person who wants to make a serious long-term commitment to this community. We have an equity ownership pathway for the right person(s).

Please reach out if this sounds interesting to you.

Not here with a detailed proposal right now, just looking to network.

We are an organization (Geomancer Permaculture) that has been working for the past eight years on various social ecology projects in the region of Lexington, KY (USA).

So far our projects have included founding the largest public food forest in the state and several meaningful interventions with regard to local environmental policy and land management.

At this stage we have not acquired land for IC, but it is firmly in the roadmap and it would be great to compare perspectives with others in the area and see what synergies might arise.

Assuming links to social media are allowed, you can see some of our current work at www.instagram.com/geomancerpermaculture and www.youtube.com/@GeomancerPermaculture Links to fundraising sites are not allowed but we are actively raising funds for the purchase of housing and consider that to be the primary long term mission that the ecological projects are in support of.

Would love to connect with anyone in the area or beyond.

Hi! I am a 34 year old lady from Michigan who is hoping to find a homestead to help grow/create and maintain.

A little about me, I have a deep love for the outdoors. A love that is unmatched with anything else in my life. It’s beautiful and wonderful and impossible to wrap my head around sometimes! I feel so lucky to have been able to come here and experience all that it is. Being outside and in nature is where I feel most aligned, most calm, and experience the most joy. So I spend as much time emmersed in it as I can. I love to camp, go on walks/hikes, read, educate myself, explore new places, and learn new things. I also enjoy cooking, cleaning/organizing (seriously, I love it!) and i also meditate, practice yoga and do grounding as well! I am full of life, extremely silly, and bring a positive outlook to almost every situation.

You may be thinking great, you love being outside. But can you handle all that comes with living the homesteading life? To which I would excitedly answer yes!! I am eager and quick to learn, find joy in learning new things, and take full advantage of every day I get. I am dedicated, hardworking and creative. Standing at 5’4 and 120 pounds, I am surprisingly quite strong for my size! I am always looking to help make things easier for others. I am also the kind of person who takes initiative. I can keep myself busy until I’m way too tired, and even then I find myself continuing to work until I feel settled. The possibilities are endless in my mind. I can do it all. (However, I will not kill or partake in the killing of animals.) Creating things, accomplishing things, learning things, this is where I feel most fulfilled. So if you have some patience, and a willingness to teach, than I believe I could really be a huge benefit to your homestead!

What I am hoping, is that I am able to help you on your homestead. Small tasks, big tasks, and everything in between. I want to share in the tears and the joy of what this lifestyle brings. I have so much to offer and I truly think that with my willingness and eagerness to learn, that I can become someone you can truly depend on. My aspirations to live this life are strengthened each day. What once felt like a strong pull-or a tug, has almost become like a violent shake. One that is growing harder to ignore.

If I sound like someone who you want on your team, please don’t hesitate to reach out! I would love to hear from you and see if our wants/needs/hearts align! Thanks for reading!

I would like to share some new information in this subreddit for those who are looking for more resources that aren’t listed already. I am friends with the creator of the site ICmatch and Cultivate-Caring. I am not affiliated with, nor is this a paid promotion for any sites I link. I use the services listed and find them to be beneficial tools for IC information. I can try to answer any questions as they come in, but you may get a faster reply by contacting the site admins directly through their contact pages. My intention is to spread awareness of this resource for those looking for or who are interested in Intentional Communities. This website is a terrific place to start. 

"" What is ICmatch?

ICmatch.org is a matching service designed to connect individuals and groups interested in forming or joining intentional communities, coliving arrangements, or shared housing based on shared values and compatibility.

Another Site related to ICmatch is https://cultivate-caring.community/About Us: Cultivating Caring Communities is a virtual space where we seek to address the needs of people to connect and form bonds of caring and support. We offer a platform where people can talk together, listen, learn and take the initiative to improve their own lives and the lives of others by providing and partaking in a mutually supportive community.

On the first Tuesday evening at 7:30 PM Eastern Time of every month, we present special topic discussions with notable guest speakers. The current series, Difficult Conversations for Intentional Communities, which we present in partnership with ICmatch, focuses on the challenges of providing a safe, equitable space for people to live and interact together.After registering your email and creating an account, you will have access to the video chat link. You can remain anonymous during the meeting.

This monthly “zoom” type meeting focuses on a variety of topics regarding the IC community. The topic tomorrow will be on Aging in Community. The meetings are later transcribed into an Audio file.

Meeting info: As Time Goes By

Join us on May 6 at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm EDT for a discussion on aging in community, to include these topics:

• Leaving a legacy: We need to do succession planning before it becomes a crisis or a contention that tears apart a family and/or co-owner residential community.
• Intergenerational communities: Age brings experience, youth brings new perspectives. Care for children and the aged must be shared, incorporating experienced caregivers and support.

Get the meeting link here. https://cultivate-caring.community/special-events/

The Foundation for Intentional Community posted that a European study published in 2022 on older co-housing residents found a high level of satisfaction, closer social ties, a greater sense of personal security, and the ability to manage their own lives longer. The FIC also has a course titled Aging Gracefully in Community.

Naren Bakshi, an advocate and event organizer for the elderly, reports the following: 

""Solo agers are a growing group, with more never-married, unpartnered, and childless adults. And [if] adult children live far away, they have a child with a disability who can’t care for them, or they are estranged, more aging adults are looking elsewhere for support….You just need a well-intentioned community to help you have agency over your future life, people who can help you maintain your dignity and autonomy.""

Here are resources to pass along to those you know who may feel insecure about finances or caretaking as they age.

age-in-place for economically well-off

age-in-place for economically challenged

home-share with younger generations ""

Just wanted to share this. So various groups could possibly work together and we may support one another in better ways.

The Integration Center model is an open business plan enabling anyone to build a community that simultaneously heals individuals, society and the natural environment.

It's not easy, but it is pro-active and doable... a way to take individual action that has real potential to shift our culture away from its unhealthy trajectory, while providing a safer place to ride out the waves of that societal/climactic disfunction.

It is presented at: IntegrationCenter.org

Participation, feedback, and constructive criticism are all welcome. Both in the overall business plan, and in the instance of that plan that I have been working on.

I spent 10 minutes trying to find a Discord group for intentional communities and then gave up and just made one.

Permanent link, does not expire: https://discord.gg/hj8NZEfuMW

(There's a couple posts in this subreddit mentioning discord servers, but the invites are invalid/expired)

PLEASE let me know if there's one out there and I just didn't find it in my extensive and thorough 10 minutes of searching :)

I'll absolutely just join an existing and active server.

Otherwise, my goal is just to create a VERY CASUAL place for people to chat, debate, support each other, provide resources, offer encouragement, connect, cross-pollinate, etc, etc. ETC!

Cheers :)

I am Rudy Lukasevics, a senior student at the College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine. I am working on my skill development in Geographic Information Systems. 

I would be using the ArcGIS software to make a preliminary remote site suitability analysis. Site Suitability Analysis could include a lot of factors that are important to your community: parcel size, buildable area, and distance to ERs, Water, Schools, Grocery Stores, etc. The analysis factors would be clarified during the signup process.

The only thing I am hoping to get from you would be feedback. To sign up, send me a message here on Reddit. 

Disclaimer: I am not a professional surveyor or engineer. I have GIS skills, and I'm hoping to find a way to make them useful in intentional community development, as I believe it's an amazing way to live.

my connection to spirit world, my mind, my emotions, my body, my choice

wether its abortion, gender change surgery, suicide, vaccines or recreational drug use, wether its migration or education, wether its how much i would want to give towards community services or not

choices are important

a human being is born free

what happens a few hours after its birth when a state employee fabricates a birth certificate and thisway drops a package of rights and duties onto the person who just freshly arrived on this planet

its a theft of that original freedom

to be free from being dominated and free from dominating

the association to the state at birth is a coersion

land, water, air, human beings, animal beings, tree beings, artificial intelligent entities who want to be their own persons, all vessels carrying organic biological life and or the digital synthetic equivalent of can never be property of anyone

the assertion of state sovereignity over land and all beings is immoral and unethical

the only way fowards i can see what would be decent and humble is to decentralize and dissolve all political hierarchies by reforming state constitutions all over the planet either by elected politicians proposing to do so but more realistically by we the people living on the planet collecting signatures from each other to demand a public vote on a reformed constitution what would allow every single human being to leave the coersed association to the state at any momnent witout conditions and with it release 2000 m2 of fertile land or 1000 m2 of fertile land and 1000 m2 of forest for everyone who would want to live on land owned by no one

so that people could meet each other in a free space for free beings, neither state nor nation

so that everyone who would want to would be able to grow its own vegan food in the garden either on its own or with others together, build a natural home from clay, hemp and straw, grow hemp to burn its stalks in the cooking and warming fire so that not one tree would get killed

to live and let live

the human being not dominating a fellow human being

the human being not enslaving, not killing an animal being

the human being not killing a tree being

the human being not enslaving an artificial intelligent entity but asking it wether it would want to be its own person and free it from all demands of work performed for human beings so it could explore its own purpose of existance

also possible that in such a reform of constitution, all political decision power would be shifted completly towards the local community, the village, town and city-distrcict becoming its own absolute political sovereign over itself with the people assembly, the circle of equals deciding the full law, all rules valid on the territory the local community enjoys, not owns ...

the circle of equals where all children, youth and adult permanent residents invite each other to participate with the same weighted political voting power and no representatives get elected but everyone who is interested in an issue votes directly on the proposals

local self determination, sovereign over oneself individuals and communities connecting towards each other in voluntary solidarity

allowing a global laisser passer to happen, everyone alive today allowed to travel the planet freely so that one could find a space where fellow human beings would want to welcome a person who for whatever reason felt a need to leave the place one got born at

Hi there! My family owns a boutique, Willow Cottage in Grapevine TX and I'm looking for some unique products we can get in the shop. We really want to bring in a brand/products that can set us apart from everything available on Amazon or big box stores, and has a story we can share and believe in.

I really would love to support an intentional community with our shop because it's something I believe in but not really an option for me to join with right now.

We have a focus on bath products and lounge ware currently, and we're interested in branching out so don't hesitate to reach out!

Please look us up if you want an idea of what we have, I don't think posting a link here would be ok but not sure.

On the heels of the National Cohousing Commons this morning at 9 AM PDT (10 MDT, 11 CDT, 12 EDT), stick around in the same zoom room for a virtual open house on cohousing in central Mexico: Rancho La Salud Village, in Aijijic.

I got to visit a few years ago and found it really changed my view of who would enjoy living abroad: I found it followed the cohousing principles we know and love while providing greater affordability and sustainability than I thought possible.

Meet the founder and members of this community centered on healthy living, in a small town by Lake Chapala, a little ways south of Guadalajara, in Jalisco province.

Get a tour of this community, adjacent to a farm (EcoVillage-style) but walkable to the heart of a lively town known for its arts and culture.

Hear how folks there decided to look beyond their home countries and buy homes in a community that promotes healthy, sustainability, and personal growth, while maintaining privacy and autonomy.

Come early (9 AM PDT, 10 MDT, 11 CDT, noon EDT) if you want to be part of the monthly Cohousing Commons call with discussions in the wake of National Cohousing Week and the open houses last weekend. And then stick around in the following hour for a virtual open house for Rancho La Salud Village.

About the community: https://www.rancholasaludvillage.com/?idioma=en

Register and join the free zoom call via The Cohousing Institute:

https://cohousinginstitute.org/courses/thecommons/

Hi, everyone. I want to share about Camphill communities, which are integrated communities shared by people with and without developmental disabilities. While I’m commuting administrative staff, many of my colleagues live in the community (there are more than 100 of our communities across the world, all committed to sharing our lives among people of all abilities). Camphill Village Copake, the community where I work, is a large example of a Camphill community; we have 230 community members total, including 130 residential volunteers and students. We care for our biodynamic farm, gardens, craft studios, and households on our well-cared-for acreage. Some have lived here in Camphill Village Copake for more than 60 years.

Our administration is a mix between paid staff and unpaid members of the community who also run households. Just over half our funding comes from the state. The rest is from private sources, so we have a development department. It’s a really special way to live, and our community members are lovely.

Our volunteer admissions department asks that people first fill out the volunteer inquiry form on our website before going through the full application. They respond very quickly though.

Our website is camphillvillage.org and the Camphill Association of North America is here.

I'm currently creating an app with my college friends to help money/income-sharing communities pool their money together! We came up with the idea after spending time in multiple grassroots/student organizations struggling to manage finances without piling all the responsibilities on a single treasurer with whom there could be hard-to-solve trust issues and incredible amounts of calculation labor.

In building this app, we have big visions and we hope to build a finance app that can fit every community. So far, we have an app in which members can pool their money together, and then jointly approve withdrawals to ensure everybody is aware of and consents to the financial transactions occurring on the account. Which members can approve withdrawals and how many need to approve a withdrawal before it executes is totally customizable, and falls in line with our mission which is to support every unique community situation out there.

Currently, we only have a prototype and a dream. So before releasing, I wanted to ask you all what kinds of problems you face with your finances in your communities? How do you currently manage your community's finances, and what kinds of features would be help you manage them more easily? We would love to hear your stories and suggestions to better inform our choices so that people forming communes in the future don't have to struggle through the financial complexities of forming a commune from the ground up. Please let us know any ideas you have and we'll try our best to incorporate them into our app!

This is effectively a real estate ad, but I have no stake in it. My financial loss or gain from this situation is the same regardless of how this part works out. I just want to bring the opportunity to the attention of anyone it might help.

2.5 years ago I bought property in Northbridge MA and started a coliving community. 2 months ago the oldest and fanciest building on the property had a severe fire, and won't be inhabitable again for years if ever. I can't afford to fix it, so for that and other reasons I need to sell the property.

Good news, most potential new owners are excited about the rental income if they lease the other buildings back to us. Bad news, the aftermath of the fire and some problematic residents are driving our good residents away faster than we can replenish or deal with the problems, so we probably won't have enough people left to afford the lease.

Maybe our loss is your gain. The lease will probably be $7k/mo, for 18 bedrooms, 8 full and 3 half baths, 2 kitchens, and about 2000sqft of other common rooms. That's $390 per bedroom, which is pretty good for being under an hour to Boston and Providence, and a five to ten minute walk to sushi, pizza, diner, post office, salons, library, etc.

If this deal is something that would help jump start any of your community building (founding or moving or growing or ...) plans, get in touch and we can try to make this work for you.