Looking for likeminded people to live with

Are you familiar with earthaven?

Yes I have, but it's more of a commune community, and we are looking for a neighborhood... like homestead style community. Each person is independent in most things just very major questions about land, etc are discussed together... and of course dinners, gardening, unschooling etc could be together but not necessary. As far as we know, Eartheaven is a community with lots of restrictions and fees... there is a core leading group that makes most decisions.
But thank you for suggestion...

I am curious if you have found what you are looking for? We have just begun searching for something almost identical to what you describe. With our young always unschooled children we have built an urban farm complete with a steel barn, all the veggie gardens, goats, chickens, turkeys and horses. Now we want to move it all to the country. It makes sense to have like minded neighbors, especially in the current economy. And with several families chippin in it seems like there is an opportunity to purchase more and better pieces of land, say something with a spring or a stream running through it.

Have you all tapped into ic.org?

Check out: 'Little Three Points'    -just outside of Atlanta.      I was there about 5 years ago, it is the Haight-Ashbury of the East.  Artists, outdoor community theatre, and so much more.  Everybody has taken their fences down to enjoy a common natural area.  It's  really a magical place

For some time now I had been "looking " for other like minded individuals to go along our journey with. That method has failed us. Then with lots of prayer and open hearts we came upon folks who wanted what we have now and more importantly wanted what we were about to do. We have since purchased land and are currently in the moving / building stage. We have spend a large amount of time having very frank disccussions about our goals and limitations. We have spent more than 50% of our wake time together either on the phone or at each others houses, so we can get to know the good the bad or the ugly of each other before making the move. Our plan is to share a home with pods at either end for the individual families, sharing a central community room that will be the kitchen / living room, school, and dinning room. For us God has been the director in all that we do.
Peace be with you in your journey.

We are trying to form the same thing here in Mid Missouri, we have a good jump on things already, land, equip, animals.

Find the right people and fall in love with the land. The climate is undergoing dramatic change, with new patterns yet to stabilize.
The next 5 years could be significantly different than the last 25.

My family and I are considering the same thing. We would like to be involved with growing a community in Mid Missouri and also learning about self sufficiency.  Do eco-villages accept couples with children? We have four and we homeschool.

I know the community we are forming accepts families, we all have kids and home school as well.

strangeloop wrote:
Check out: 'Little Three Points'     -just outside of Atlanta.      I was there about 5 years ago, it is the Haight-Ashbury of the East.   Artists, outdoor community theatre, and so much more.   Everybody has taken their fences down to enjoy a common natural area.   It's  really a magical place

Do you have any contact information for Thee Little Points?

To all my friends at Permies,
In many ways the search for a Community to live in is easy, we risk very little, yet those who build them offer their work and themselves to our judgment, some thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth of those who criticize must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism. But, there are times when the critic truly risk something and that is in the discovery and the defense of something new. The world is often unkind to a new concept, new creations. The new needs friends. Recently, I experienced something new, an extra ordinary community concept from a singularly unexpected source. To say both the concept and its ideas challenged my preconceptions of community is a gross understatement. In truth, they have moved me to my core. I realize, only now in today’s world what a community should be . Not everyone can develop a great idea, but a great idea can develop anywhere. It is difficult to imagine a more humble origin than those of the Betterfields Community, who  in my opinion, is nothing less than the bar. 
Richard
http://www.permaculture.webs.com/

Hello, everyone!

Finding this forum was really a gift. Just this week, as I considered my options for retirement, I realized that some sort of community was a really important part of that.

I have been part of a Catholic Worker community in the past and I could do that. I would be interested in being on one of the CW Farms.

Or I could relocate. (I'd like to be close to a University, but not necessarily).

Then there is the option of trying to help a community form on the land I already own. 39 acres near Lake Superior with 80,000 acres of wilderness all around. There are 3 springs, pond(s), dozens of bearing apple trees, wild strawberries and raspberries and about 20 acres of rolling maple. I designed and built a house off the grid- wood stove, modern plumbing inside/hand pump out, solar panels. I've been thinking that I could put it on the market as an eco-educational rental.

At this point, I will be going up there for the summer and if you think you would like to come visit, let me know. We can correspond and maybe work something out. It is really beautiful up there...

Jude

Cob Project Campus is available for singles or couples... no fees or costs if a trade agreement is reached. No land ownership is offered. No children or pets at this small community campus at this time. Possibly some of that will change in the near future... but only time will tell.

Hi, my name is Danny. My fiance and I are currently looking to become part of a group. Contact me if you would like more information. Thanks.

Dan Mangan wrote:Hi, my name is Danny. My fiance and I are currently looking to become part of a group. Contact me if you would like more information. Thanks.

Not sure who you were responding to.... can you please say who you were speaking at?

If any of you are still looking, consider Central NH?

We have an established, but growing, community of 10 adults and 11 children called Dancing Bones. website (not very detailed) is http://www.dancingbones.net/

We don't have much permaculture going on, yet. There are some blue berry patches, and a lot of rasberry and blackberry bushes around. Many of us would like to get more going, and would like to have a common business going that could support us all so our families don't have to have people out working "paid" jobs daily. If you're onterested in more info, let me know?
Be well,
Sage