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Intentional Community Land Opportunity: 30 Acres in Rural Minnesota (~$500k–$550k)

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INSPIRED: What one person can accomplish!!

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Best of this year in intentional community

How far can a community push self-sufficiency before the complexity becomes another dependency?

The Farm: 50 years later

Game Boards FTW (for the win)

Farmhacks . org seems to be gone

U-Pick Orchard Catering To Families With Children

Seeking vice-free off-grid community.

Creating Permaculture Communities, a conversation with Stephen Brooks from Ecoversity

Local Permaculture

Permaculture equivalent of New-Urbanism

Humility - A missing piece in today's society?

TimeBanks: using time like money in our communities

Zoom meetings

Opening for Shepardess

IN PRACTICE!!! My FIRST Consult is on the books!!

looking for partners - older - can still contribute and work

Lemons into Lemonade...IC visits and Farm Visits in '26

Seeking work exchange for knowledge

Homestead Base + Operator Opportunity — 20 acres in Bennett County, SD (Move-in May–Sept 2026)

RV or Tiny Home hookup spot north of Asheville, NC

Intentional Community Land Opportunity: 30 Acres in Rural Minnesota (~$500k–$550k)

My cost of living is only 200$/month and I live in paradise

community design philosophies for imperfect humans - permaculture thorns

Hosting long distance cyclists at your house

If you're a Berean, you'll appreciate this.

25 acre wood lot in Maine looking for homesteaders.

Clallam Bay Community (WA) — Seeking Experienced Growers

Let me know about your perm/IC communities!

Southwest NB, Canada

My Dog and I M46 are looking for our new Farm / Community

Hot Springs w/cabin rental on organic date farm in California desert.

Partners for intentional Christian Homestead

Regenerative Farm at the Central Oregon Coast Seeking New Community Members

Rural Oregon Community seeking

Founding a community on 40 acres in Maine

Escape the Chaos. Root Yourself in Love.

Highly Skilled Welder & DoorDasher (same person lol) seeking off grid community

Eastern Pennsylvania meetup

Help us Develop 7 acre farm in Puerto Rico?

Seeking a single renter that wants to live off grid surrounded by food and nature

Ozarks of Missouri developing land

Veteran homesteader family looking for another family with kids

Anyone interested in on-grid living?

Our homestead farm in Cherry Plain NY welcomes you

Established land base — seeking people for a long-horizon intentional community project in the Ozark

Looking for partners to make off grid community (AL, GA,TN)

NEW off grid community in the ozarks MO seeking families who are ready to leave the matrix!!!

Where are peeps interested in established Farm Community ?

Cooperative Community forming in the Mountains of Western NC

Communities Conferences - Early September

Back to Eden help - Paul Gautschi

INSPIRED: What one person can accomplish!!

Seeking a community to be part of

Building Feral Canyon — BC

Finding ME Time - Nature & Music

Looking for tinkerer/ mechanic in Southern Oregon

Seeking land rental

ecological sovereignty community !?

Top Forums

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permaculture artisans

skip

growies

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critters

homesteading

energy

monies

community

wilderness

regional

permies.com

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global resources

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