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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Huh, it sounds like you live in the new 'it' county for this type community.  
I've looked on ic.org, before but most are 'forming' or give too little 
information.  I wouldn't  live like 'hippies' live, but what you are 
describing doesn't sound so bad.  How do these groups handle personal and 
familial disputes.  I am not the confrontational type.  There is little I 
find important enough to become "worked up over"; but not everyone is like 
me.  I knoiw from personal experience that friends, even family, can blow up 
small perceived slights into mounatainous affairs.

What if you are one that ends up not being in the clicque -- there are 
clicques in all groups, right?  What security do you have in not being told 
to 'hit the road' the day after a disagreement on , I don't know, the right 
kind of watermelon seeds or something of equal importance.  

My friend (she is actual the sister of a friend) has being living inm these 
communities most of her adult life.  She is a dogmatic pacifist, a real 'true 
believer' (and a bit of a nut, in my opinion, but highly educated).  She is 
so unusal as not to be a really good reference for me, and I have no clue 
when , again, I will see her.

Thanks for the info

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--- On Sun, 12/14/08, Lisa K.V. Perry <lisakvperry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lisa K.V. Perry <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Intentional community -- Countryside
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 2:14 PM
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Robert Walton
> <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Acorn is not that far from me, and I'd considered
> looking into it at
> > one time. I'd never be able to be a vegetarian,
> first, but I think I'd
> > go nuts in one of those where people live communally.
> >
> 
> No pun intended, or perhaps it was.  ;)
> 
> Most places you either live in a large building with
> separate bedrooms or
> you have separate housing like at Abundant Dawn.  As best I
> know, the group
> sex stuff is a thing of the past, Bob. The people range in
> age from 30 - 75+
> in age, with a child here and there. To all of the
> communities below the
> word 'community' means sharing land together and
> living sustainably. That's
> it.
> 
> At Abundant Dawn <http://www.abundantdawn.org/> the
> rule is you share two
> meals per week together, otherwise you eat with your family
> in your own home
> on shared land. You do not share incomes, though they used
> to have one group
> (out of three) that did so. We know several of the people
> who live here,
> they used to have a pot luck invitation only party every
> Summer and Winter
> Solstice but haven't held one for a year or two.
> 
> At Light Morning
> <http://www.lightmorning.org/Intro/closer_look_1.htm>
> you
> share all meals together and there are fewer individual
> homes but a very
> spacious main house with separate bedrooms and a very large
> kitchen and
> common area. They have one of the most spectacular gardens
> I've ever seen.
> There is no income sharing. We know several of the people
> who live here,
> they have an open pancake breakfast every Sunday morning
> from Spring to
> early Fall (we go once or twice a year) and the occasional
> summer party.
> Visitors are to bring toppings or something to share.
> 
> Floyd Co-Housing
> <http://directory.ic.org/21687/Floyd_Cohousing> is
> just
> getting started. I know the people involved with it.
> 
> There are three more co-housing communities in Floyd but
> they are all in the
> just forming stages or so 'out there' to not
> mention here.
> 
> There will also be a *Floyd Eco-village*, they plan to
> begin construction of
> small, sustainable houses in 2009 on 75 acres of mostly
> open land (for
> shared gardens, aquaculture, pasture to raise animals,
> orchards) about 2
> miles from the center of town. We know the owners of the
> land and the
> project, actually they are our employers (Wall Residences
> LLC).
> 
> Highland Haven <http://www.vahighlandhaven.org/> is
> truly an Airstream park
> open March 1st to October 15th, which means we'd have
> to find a place to
> winter. We think about this as an option down the road
> after the boys have
> left home. Our home base could still be in the County,
> it's likely that one
> or both of our boys may stay or end up here since it's
> their home town.
> 
> Lisa
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