LIVING TOGETHER
Community life depends on the good will and participation of every member. Working, eating, creating, listening, trusting, learning, helping, playing, and celebrating together build relationships which are the foundations of community. We will share the daily tasks of our village, each contributing their particular talents and skills. We will serve several meals per week in the Common House, from food that is as healthful, locally and sustainably raised as possible. Our intention is that members of all ages, from different backgrounds, incomes, family configurations, abilities, and lifestyle choices, feel respected and empowered. We welcome the personal growth and social responsibility that living in community can inspire.

COMMUNITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL
We are creating a community in which members are connected, supported, useful, and appreciated. We intend for the buildings and site to be developed in ways that promote both social mingling and privacy, safe space for children to play, human movement in preference to automobiles, inclusion of differently-abled people in homes and outdoor spaces, and visual beauty and harmony.

CHILDREN IN COMMUNITY
We seek to create an environment that is safe, supportive, and inspiring for our children, and that significantly involves them in community responsibilities, decisions, projects, and celebrations.

GOVERNANCE
We self govern using Sociocracy, a form of consent decision making. Sociocracy seeks objections as a way of improving a proposal and reaching an optimal solution. We treat each other and communicate with each other in ways that reflect kindness, consideration, respect, openness, honesty, neighborliness, and non-violence.

LIVING SUSTAINABLY
We want our lives to have a restorative impact on the Earth and its people. We want to enhance the lives of our members and the health of our surrounding ecosystem. We want to consume and drive less, share resources, reuse and recycle more, strive toward self-sufficiency, and innovatively utilize sustainable materials, technologies, and design strategies whenever possible.

We understand that our community is an ecosystem. Insofar as we are able, we will employ natural, sustainable principles to guide in the development of housing, energy, food supply, waste, soil and water systems. We intend to build environmentally responsible, energy-efficient housing, raise communal organic gardens, strive to create an on site Community Supported Agriculture farm and cluster our structures on a small portion of our land, allowing the rest to remain open and undeveloped.


Our two barns in the farm field.