Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Nancy Babbitt <nbabbitt2003@adelphia.net>]

Paul,

The Hutterites are a communal people, living on scattered bruderhofe or colonies throughout the prairies in North America.

They are ag based, and a Christian community.  They share belongings.

Nancy

On Jul 17, 2006, at 10:29 PM, TradingPostPaul wrote:

Uriel, I've been following the IC movement for over 30 years, give or take

a few.  Let me stress that they don't list hundreds of communes at

http://www.ic.org/pnp/myths.php . Their "intentional communities" cover

everything from dormitory arrangements to "ecovillages, cohousing,

residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing

cooperatives, and other projects where people strive together with a common

vision". And very little of those have anything to do with living and

working on the land. I've been on the IC discussion list a long time, and

all I've ever seen about food growing and rural living is talk. A lot of

talk, such as "the Eden Project". 

They say "Many people use these terms interchangeably, however, it is

probably more useful to use the term "commune" to describe a particular

kind of intentional community whose members live "communally" in an

economic sense--operating with a common treasury and sharing ownership of

their property. Most intentional communities are not communes, though some

of the communities most active in the communities movement are."

By their definition, I haven't found any working communes since the '70s.

Though they list 540 intentional communities in North America, where are

the communes? I'm not  counting religious groups supported and governed by

an outside organization like a temple or diocese. I should point out that

on that list almost no ICs are rural agricultural groups. I wish they were.

I often mention the need for community and I argue that individual,

isolated self sufficiency is a myth. 

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net

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On 7/17/2006 at 4:44 PM Uriel wrote:

Go to www.ic.org where hundreds are listed.

Uriel / SW Missouri

living in the community of Nasalam

There are many communes.  Google intentional community.

Nancy

the hippie commune:  time for a fresh new look at one tested old  

technology?

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