Seeking partners for community/ecovillage PNW washington

We’re calling in off-grid communal land to build from scratch in Northwest Washington.

My partner and I have spent 5 years living in communities all over the world, slowly learning that the vision we have doesn’t exist where we want it.

The vision is simple - a small-to-medium amount of acreage where a few families dwell, living closely to the land and actively trying to minimize waste production, external land input, consumerism, and reliance on large corporations while maximizing spiritual, emotional, and communal capabilities. We plan to have children so sobriety is a non negotiable (aside from rare ceremonial medicines). Our initial focus will be low tech structures and creating the foundation for syntropic agroforestry.

We know it’s possible. We’ve traveled the globe on little to no money, meeting hundreds of people just like us, who see the planet as a gift for us to cherish rather than destroy.

The time is Now. We are ready to start at ground zero. We are seeking partners for acquiring raw land in NW Washington. We’re willing to lay the ground work over the next few years to make this happen. We have no buying power because we don’t use credit. A friend/partner of ours has some buying power - she would visit the property and continue living/working full time in Seattle until retirement. My partner and I are in our late 20s, early 30s, and our friend is in her mid 40s

We have no interest in profit. We don’t want to get rich and don’t plan to try to sell later to make a buck. There is some change that’s needed in the world and, while there are examples out there, we’d like to create yet another. We’ve consistently lived on little money and would love to show others how to do so.

We currently live in Sedro-Woolley on a 35 acre non-organic farm-share and are hoping to move to different land as soon as possible.


Email or text me at rashawn.hunter@hotmail.com 703-565-4213

I hear you.
I believe small autonomous villages trading with each other are the future. They'll need to be resilient, self-reliant, and basically off-grid. Our energy, water, and sanitation needs have to be scaled to that level too. People will accuse me of apocalyptic thinking, but I think it's good to start wasting less fresh water before it's already spent.

Build high efficiency, low cost homes out of materials like straw bale in a well planned communal arrangement, ie in a round with all the kitchens facing a yard and play area, enabling collaborative child supervision.

Have a village library for everyone's books and media to share. There are art and music studios, pottery, wood and metal shops, a free store for recycling everyone's extra stored materials. Everyone has a role on a Shop or Craft guild for efficient town management of repairs, farms, and goods. There's a physical storefront for interacting with the outside world.

Drawbacks will include a lot less luxuries, like cheap bananas. But they were always subsidized by human exploitation so 🤷🏽‍♀️

And we will still require outside specialty care, like doctors, but what's important to you?

This is Good Stuff. Gus and I are just south of you and have some similar ideas.

Perhaps we should gather soon to discuss!

I'm interested in following and contributing to the stated cause, although probably not looking to participate directly - I'd like to see more complementary or allied projects taking off throughout the region.

I wonder though if some critical feedback and questions are welcome? Projects like this involve tremendous learning curves across many challenging arenas, often resulting in painful disappointment and conflict when results don't come anywhere near initial ideals. It sounds like early, aspirational stages of this vision, but do you have a few reference points of other established, successful projects with similar models in the region that show what's really possible?

Ben Brownell wrote:.

I wonder though if some critical feedback and questions are welcome? ........ It sounds like early, aspirational stages of this vision, but do you have a few reference points of other established, successful projects with similar models in the region that show what's really possible?

Yeah, I'm totally sharing an aspirational vision. I do not know how to organize a large project or bring about a successful village, just what I imagine it could be. I'd love to spend time in one learning. So I share my dream to show how I think.

I've been tied to an old life and dreaming of another for far too long. My divorce is final, I have a bus, a tipi, and I can now move on. I'm taking my geology degree, broken body, and rematriating spirit to my next place of learning.
-gus

Wishing you well in this beautiful endeavor.

I will prefer off-grid living for simplicity I see is of great value, with contributing to less demands. Growing as much as they can will be important, I would be with any doing so with what I can do for that  I am in California, I might not find any doing anything like this closer than in Washington, so I have some interest.