In light of everything, I'm wondering the options. Yes I know about checking IC.org, also I've been looking at Catholic worker website, wwoofing, workaway and campHill. Just wondering if anyone here is directly connected with one of these outside of the US communities, since a direct connection often goes a long way. Looking for an English speaking (or bilingual with English) community that doesn't have a large price point buy in and provides housing and other basic needs in exchange for volunteering/working and that is safe for young kids. We have experience with this within the US.

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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.

I’m currently in a season of life that has opportunity staring me in my face under my nose and I don’t know what to do with it by myself and I want to be able to share it with like minded success driven individuals. I’m sitting on 11 useable acres and have 5 more raw acres of land 10 minutes down the road. On June 1st I have just the five acres unless I can get a few people up here to start a permaculture agroforest with a micro green room and a 100 ft greenhouse there’s beds already to plant in the spring and I have all the starts seeds trays lights and racks for the micro greens. I’m renting this earthship with the option to buy it and I just need like minded success driven gardeners and farmers with experience. I have years of garden and landscaping and construction. Contact me if interested.

For all you asking, Where, How to get community, homesteading experience....

71 yr old hippy. 50 years off grid, homesteading, community experience. Variety of skills and experience. Willing to share for an exchange of energies.

On Big Island of Hawai'i. 21 acre organic farm . 12 folks.

I need help doing stuff. From machete the jungle to gardening to building upkeep, harvesting fruit and avocados etc.

1 mile from Ocean, 4 miles to clothing optional black sand beach.

I have a 10x10 structure for a helper.

How can we be mutually beneficial ?

I’m a 27 years old male, I’m not on drugs and have a clean record. I just want to get out of the rat race and live a simpler life. I’m just curious to see if they’re any communities in the states that I could volunteer and work at for a period of time. I’m from Texas but Interested in any place despite the state or distance

I've come to the conclusion that if people made a point to move to one specific area then they could take over the local politics of the area either by taking control of the pre-existing construction or by building a new society entirely, could be through unionization or obtaining property, etc. The Free State Project is an example of people trying to do exactly that, the goal is to move as many people as possible to New Hampshire to create a libertarian paradise. What do you all think of this idea? Would you support this kind of endeavor and be willing to contribute to it yourself...why, or why not?

Hi! I have been trying to find out if my memory of visiting a community in the late 80s is accurate. I know that the memory is real but don’t know the name of the community or location for certain, because I was 5-7.

I think it was in Big Bear, and I remember there being a swimming hole where the community required everyone to be nude to swim. I remember this very clearly because I had on a swim suit an a community member (woman) made me get out of it to continue swimming. It’s one of my first memories of feeling in shame and embarrassment. I also remember the rocks around the swimming hole hurt on my bare skin.

The other thing I remember was that the toilets were in an open air gazebo-like structure, all lined on the edge of the structure facing inwards like a ring, so everyone was facing each other. More like a large circular outhouse with benches and holes.

The architecture of at least that building was the typical raw wood style.

I’ve searched Google and haven’t had luck finding it. I don’t think it was later than 92 and could have been as early as ‘88.

My mother and I lived in Humboldt around that time as well

Thanks for your help!

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How hard is it to join a commune? Do they have stringent entry requirements and generally only accept a very small percentage of applicants?

Hello, Me and my fiancée are looking to integrate ourselves into a California Central Coast collective. If anybody has information about communes/ intentional living communities in the area, I would really appreciate it if you could share it with us. Much love

Particularly interesting ones like chruches, castles, or abandoned renaissance faires... God i would love to be live in a ren faire ground, supe it up and renovate it into a nice fantasy themed commune. I have bought and sold property before and a managed pretty sizeable parcel for enough i could buy with cash. I would be more than willing to purchase another piece with the hopes of creating a RPG-like community on it this time.

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Lately, I’ve been feeling stuck, like life is just passing by without much change. It’s hard to shake the feeling that things aren’t moving forward, no matter how much I try. It’s been a bit disheartening, and I’ve found myself questioning if this is really it—if this is all there is.

But deep down, I still believe that there’s something out there, some experience or path that could turn things around. I’m holding onto the hope that a moment of clarity or a new adventure could bring back the excitement and meaning I’ve been missing. I just need to find it.

Creating meaningful change has always been a core value of mine. I am passionate about cultivating joy, building deep connections, and working toward a better world for ourselves and future generations. My dream is to live in a community where kindness, respect, and understanding thrive—even in times of disagreement—and where we actively care for the land we call home. So I'm genuinely curious if anyone knows of communities I can join in and/or around pennsylvania

As is posted on here on occasion I would like to start an IC. I have the land, been living here for 30yrs. Have some improvements already built and more planned. I would like it to be a maker/builder focused also already have a greenhouse built and outdoor gardens. Open to input from others in terms of the finer details.

Lastly this is located near Fairplay, Colorado. Message if interested or leave a comment or question below.

Brief version: Anyone have (1) a contract / agreement for an intentional community which they can share (perhaps hide names etc)? and/or (2) same but where one person owns the land and building, and residents don't share a kitchen or bathroom with the owner (who may or may not live there)?

In my mind everyone including the owner (me) would be contributing and benefiting roughly proportionally.

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When I had housemates, our home was perhaps the happiest in Toronto. Then I fell in love with someone who lived 90 minutes away and needed to be there, so we rented a place together out there. A year later, 2 of my 3 former housemates moved out of Ontario. Without me or them at the house, and with insurance and various government regulators telling me I need to make the spaces separate units*, the house became a regular triplex, with no sense of community between residents.

(* each already had its own bathroom and kitchenette, but we shared my kitchen and used the laundry in my bathroom, and there were no internal locks, and doors generally stayed open / there was no door to the upper kitchenette, and we shared the front and back garden)

Becoming a conventional triplex, the home lost its soul.

Can I make it an intentional community?

A married couple who were on the 1st floor for 9 years bought a house and are moving out. I really like the basement tenant and the front 2nd floor couple (married). The house now has 4 apartments (kitchenette added) (the layout didn't work as 3 separate apartments), and someone who shares my love for living in community wants to move into the 2nd floor back apartment.

What kind of contract / agreement can we have? I want honoring the intention for the house to be at the core. People would be free to live independent lives of course, but should also honor the intention. (Briefly stated: learning to live ecologically, perhaps with gardening and dancing and organic improv theatre, inspired to together create a great home-for-your-home.)

Laws meant to protect tenants can hurt other tenants and harm community. Most tenants have been fine/good, but 3 were not.

One tenant smoked (cigarettes) indoors, in violation of the lease, every day, but there was no way to get proof, and the tenant most bothered by the smell was afraid of angering that tenant so didn't want to report it or sign testimony.

One tenant was terribly noisy, and another was terribly messy (example: running in the park next door's mud/slush then wearing his boots up the carpeted stairs instead of using the boot rack (inside where it's warm), but apparently (I was told) even though Ontario's Landlord-Tenant Board acknowledges the rights of other tenants, they would not intervene - their standards are too low, they don't care about people feeling a sense of home together.

I tried to connect with each of those tenants in a personal way - to appeal to their dreams, their humanity - no need to talk in a way that feels like conflict, I thought. Didn't work.

Some people are so focused on rights they have no sense of care.

If I do a better job of interviewing people, getting to know what they're really like, then there won't be a need for a contract. They'll be great for the house so the contract will be superfluous. But after trying that I still ended up with two of the difficult tenants (who succeeded in saying what they thought I wanted to hear), so I don't want to make that same mistake.

(I can try to have every one in the house approve a new tenant, but if someone is away or seriously busy or has a conflicting schedule then it can be hard to get everyone to meet, and an applicant might need to know without delay so they don't lose out on another place they like almost-as-much, so I want to invite others to approve a new tenant but let me decide if they can't meet.)

Unless the owner and tenant share a kitchen or bathroom (and only if required to do so, and only if that requirement is for a physical reason (there is only one kitchen or bathroom)), Ontario rentals are required to use a standard lease. Additions can be made to that lease but if an additional note conflicts with rental laws then it is void.

I want to create a contract that's better than the standard lease. A contract for people who want better than the minimum standard.

Ignoring the bit about Ontario's Standard Lease (since most Reddit readers are outside Ontario, and I hope my question helps others too):

Anyone have (1) a contract / agreement for an intentional community which they can share (perhaps hide names etc)? and/or (2) same but where one person owns the land and building, and residents don't share a kitchen or bathroom with the owner (who may or may not live there)?

Can a landlord convert rentals to an intentional community?

Thanks

Sorry the detailed version was so long.

Hello everyone.. Does anyone know of any co-living spaces or communities in New Orleans? I’m looking for recommendations or leads. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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We made it thru hurricane Milton and are back doing election work again in Florida.

A group of mostly intentional community people are working serveral differnt elections in Florida including the reproductive rights amendment. We have registered a lot of people, fostered free rides to the polls services and gone to Haitian churches and stores and postered in Creole about election services. If that is exciting to you, you could still join us (either in Florida) or helping from afar (what we call the "airteam"). Here is the latest update of what we have done.

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Hello, I am traveling to south America next month and I'd like to go to intentional living communities and visit for extended periods of time. any recommendations?

Though we aren't an official IC, we have lived intentionally for 2 years. The last member left today and I am heart broken. I don't know what's next, I don't even know what I want anymore. I'm happy to see my friends living the lives they want, but it feels very lonely. I never expected it to be easy, but I wasn't prepared for this to hit me so hard.

Updated from my initial list 18 days ago after reading feedbacks etc.

Neighborhood watch, emergency preparation and training

Meal share club

Car, bike and ride share club

Auto maintenance/repair club

Childcare club

Afterschool care club

Parents group like arranging play dates, shared transportation, and kids activities not in a regular afterschool program (added 10/20/24)

Home school club

Neighborly visits club, to visit neighbors who signed-up

Home maintenance & remodel share club

Gardening & landscaping share club

DIY and workshop share club (wood, metal, robotics, electronics, etc.)

Children clothes & toys sharing club

Tools share club

Video or movie watching group

Theater or performing arts club

Pet care and pet sitting club

Book reading share club

Shopping and excursion share club

Fitness accountability club such as jogging, gym, yoga, etc. (added 10/18/24)

Office, meeting room, etc. rented in the community house or from a resident (added 10/18/24)

College education club, like campus for distance learning students

Other volunteering activities like pickup/delivery of donations

Everything is a bit different in community, businesses don't grow and die quite the same way. Here is a look into how the hammocks business helped develop Twin Oaks and why the warehouse fire made it impossible for us to go back.

Here is the story of the Last Hammock

Hammocks manager take the last jig out of the shop

In Australia, many country towns have passed their heyday but some grand historic buildings remain, including beautiful old two-storey hotels, verandahs top and bottom, bar and dining areas downstairs, accommodation upstairs. These can be purchased for about the same cost as a three bedroom house in a nondescript Sydney suburb (ie, a million bucks).

How would it work for a group seeking intentional community to buy an old hotel like this, live in the accommodation, run the pub and perhaps expand to include community markets, an organic farm (some properties are on a largish block) and training events such as permaculture courses?

Is that a vision that IC people would find attractive, do you think?