Looking for like-minded people to create a self-sufficient sustainable community?
To find farm-oriented residential community builders:
If you are politically right-leaning, try FreedomCells.
If you are politically left-leaning, try Global Ecovillage Network.
If you are unaffiliated or centrist, try Permies and ICmatch.
This site aims to serve those who want to create a unique residential rural or semi-rural community with attributes such as these:
Free-range kids with limited screen time and plenty of face-to-face social time.
Shared homeschooling center or charter school.
Communities that provide a container for preserving stable long-term marriages.
Respect for tradition, such as Christian values, while welcoming others who live by "the perennial philosophy," the similarities across the great religious traditions of the world.
Working together toward group self-sufficiency, because a lone homestead is more vulnerable than a community farmstead.
Many on the political right are dismissive of the residential intentional community movement, thinking it seems too much like a socialist project. Yet the same people tend to be nostalgic for the days when a rural farming community would participate in a barn raising. Conversely, many on the counterculture left are overly enamored with the idea of a family-like commune. These idealists sometimes overlook that people can behave badly in groups and take advantage of others, sometimes even unintentionally. Both perspectives can be true at the same time.Â
Committing to an intentional community usually means committing to several long-term partnerships and friendships. Starting with as much compatibility as possible is an important step. With a high divorce rate and increasing number of couples who never marry, it's clear most of us weren't raised with the skills to navigate life with even one other person, let alone coordinate decisions within a group. But we can learn to.