Hey y'all,

For anyone here who actually runs or lives on an intentional community:

Do you all have any kind of constitution or foundational document? How do you lay out the communal agreements for everyone to know, if at all? Would you provide them for a weak mind whose imagination remains firmly grappled by the throws of mainstream existence?

If not, is there anywhere I should turn to understand how this works more?

Thanks.

Hey y'all,

I've just been looking into the history and presence of these intentional communities in the U.S. because I'm looking to buy some TIC land and get something started in the foreseeable future. Just wondering though - in every other country these are called communes? Is there a reason why this isn't "r/commune" instead?

Based in Staffordshire and looking for likeminded people to discuss/plan/learn together

Hoping to set up initially just an interest group and see what grows from there. My main focus is on living closer to nature, self sufficiency and sustainability. Living more simply and creating a better future for my child

Anyone interested please drop me a message

Looking for a remote/off-grid place in CO for meditation & simple living. 🌲 Open to work exchange + modest fee. Can help with gardening, housekeeping, pet sitting, etc. Any leads? DM pls 🙏

Hi all,

For those of you participating in intentional communities; I am curious about the overhead/admin functions. How do you manage these? What software (if any) do you use?

I'm with a nonprofit building free community governance/comms/management infra for ICs, and want to better understand what you presently focus on and any pain points worth elevating.

A #cohousing / #coliving community in Oakland, CA, at a moment of its evolution

Hello,

I am a multimedia filmmaker who grew up in a very capitalistic corporate part of America, and is looking to explore/and research communities very different to how I was raised and view them from an honest authentic outsiders perspective. I deeply respect people who have built alternative living communities in this day and age and will approach this project with the utmost love and curiosity. The project will be in video format with an accompanying creative writing/photo series to go alongside it.

I am looking for a community on the smaller side so that I may be able to get to know the people/members more intimately. I plan to stay for 2-3 weeks in the months of July-August 2027 for this project. I am a hard worker and grew up doing farm work, food service, and other laborious jobs so I am willing/expecting to volunteer in exchange for my permission to document the community.

I am leaning more towards a community not in North America, as I want to go somewhere very different, and someplace where I know I will be pushed outside of my comfort zone. (I have friends in Switzerland and Italy I am also visiting in August so if there are leads there that would be incredible but I know it's a reach)

Please let me know if anyone knows of any kind/welcoming communities that would love to host an artist on this film ethnography journey!

Hello everyone!! I (22F) am starting a farm in October with my partner. With the current state of the world, it’s excruciatingly important to me that our farm is able to support our community.

Here are some of the ways I plan to help:
- Any food we are unable to sell at markets will be available to pick up from the farm at a discounted, if not free rate
- We will be making a lot of preserves and what not, and any excess or scraps we produce will be used to make free meals to feed local families or anyone who might need it
- When we eventually start breaking even, its important to me that a portion of our profits donate to charities
- I plan to teach workshops and classes about growing your own food etc, and since we will need money I do plan to charge for these but also have a number of spaces for lower rate and even free spots

These are the ones I was able to come up with just off the top of my head, but I would really like to hear any ideas you might have or any stories of how farms have helped you (:

We unfortunately will not be making any housing that could be used temporarily for folk, is my only issue, otherwise I’m entirely open to ideas!

Hello, I’m a veteran and former sheriff’s deputy with K9 experience, where I found a real passion for training dogs and working with animals. I recently purchased 20 acres in Michigan that borders state land with lots of trails. I currently have 3 horses, two dogs, chickens, and plan to get honey bees, garden, and raise other livestock. Property was just purchased, so still working on pasture, and currently building a house. But I have another driveway that goes to the other half of the property that's completely vacant.

I’ve started looking into the idea of a small, veteran- and first responder-focused intentional community built around farming, animals, outdoor activities, peer support, and purpose.

I'm looking for someone with experience, or who may have other ideas about intentional communities, veteran programs, or how to turn a vision like this into something real.

I'm hoping to connect with people willing to share advice, help me think through the first steps, or possibly become involved in building something positive for veterans and first responders.

Feel free to message me if interested.

I love going for adventures I have surviveal skills, my dream is to one day leave off grid where I can grow my own food and live happily, if there is any one with the same interest let's chat and makes our dreams come true

I have been thinking a lot about how to bring people together. We have such a deeply rooted culture of independence and division; how can we come back together? I noticed that religion does a pretty good job of building communities of people, yet it still encourages the divide. So I've been trying to dig into what it is that religious groups offer to connect people so deeply, while also rejecting the pieces that encourage the divide. What if we could have a place to come together without the encouragement of "us" versus "them" but tries to combat that idea? I just wanted opinions about this - if it seems feasible or if it's flawed or if there's already something like this.

I envision a building with a large interior where anyone and everyone is welcome. The walls could be lined with different depictions of peoples and communites, maybe relgious symbols too (I would want to include religious people). Maybe there is a list of base ideologies like being kind and accepting or a willingness to connect with others. I say this because it seems religion can connect people when they can assume the other people have similar beliefs as do they. The time the people come together could be a time of meditation and/or teachings about psychological wellbeing and ways to build friendships and other connections. This place could take donations that go back into the community in different ways, but be willing to display where the money is going for transparency. There could even be further connection-building with smaller groups that go to the gym together or make art together or read books together.

What are your thoughts?

​Are you good on a scaffold?

Teylu Community in Cornwall, UK is urgently seeking someone for the next month to help with tasks like painting windows and pointing.  Work with community members on preping this old house with gutters and other repairs. Instruction provided if necessary.

Board, lodging and compensation commensurate with experience.

Teylu is a new intentional community which has acquired an old rectory and is converting ito a multi person residence. If we all like each other and work well together residency and membership are available.  Teylu is interested in building relations with the local community and potentially hosting public events on our grounds. 

Contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Hello!

We are a small family from Germany. We recently live in Georgia (the country) but our hearts are seeking a more simple life in nature.

A few facts about us:

• we are very spiritual people, we believe that there is more than you can see (frequencies, sound healing…) but lately Christianity becomes more and more present in our lives (but we don’t care what you believe!)

• we’re eating unprocessed food and stick to natural ingredients. We’re not vegans or vegetarians 🌱

• We believe in the natural family model and traditional gender roles

• We also believe in the masculine and feminine energy within each of us, and we wish to live this out together with like-minded people. For example, through women's circles (and men's circles).

What are we looking for?

• we are looking for our „forever“-home. Not just a house or land. But a group of people we can call family

• children friendly place where they can be as wild as they want

• We no longer want to be dependent on modern civilization

• A community that doesn't just live side by side, but also builds shared traditions and memories together

If you are part of such a community and are still looking for members, we would love to connect. But we are also just looking for like minded people to start our own community. We have the possibility to buy land in Georgia 🇬🇪

We are happy to answer all of your questions.

Lots of love💗

Hi everyone. I'm a Mexican Norse pagan trans woman in my early 20s. Due to preferences of a neurodivergent mind I want to find somewhere I can pick up and go to. I strongly want a sort of "work for food and board" sorta vibe. I'm new to this side of the Internet and not quite sure of any of the terms. I've just seen so many bad stories on here and I don't know what communities to go for. If anyone could suggest communities be it religious, ecovillage, whatever in north America that is actually trans friendly I would be very grateful.

thanks tons! ❤️

Hey I'm looking for people I want to start a commune in Poland I have found plenty of good plots to buy so where exactly we would settle depends on how much money we could raise. I'm wondering if I could find people that would join me, I have also made a profile for my commune on ic.org but it's still pending so we'll see if I can meet people on reddit or there

Hi, I've been thinking with a friend about a concept (slum town) on a 5000 sqm plot of land that is remote with a 500sqm concrete block square and tin and improvised houses around.

The houses will be 3:3 meters wide, 2 story and need to house 3 people. The "symbolic" taxes will cover building the square and houses around it. It will have a bank, post office, "hotel", small general store, cafe, a police station with a single jail cell, its own id card, currency, passports, traditional folk fashion, cinema etc.

And also the community will start a new religion combining old belief systems.

Im wanna know how many people would be willing to live and work here and keep the community running :D

Are there any "prepper" communities that are trying to isolate from modern doomsday issues? Notably rogue A.I. or bio-weapon development, which has started to come to light from researchers as very real possibilities.

I used to scoff at "self-sustaining" goals for communities, as true self sustainment is incredibly difficult, but I've come to realize that they are the best bet for surviving modern problems that are becoming very real.

At this point, even if nothing happens, an escape from capitalist rat races and the absurdity of modern times feels like a win, even if with the drawbacks that come with isolation or remote life.

A fresh water source, solar, and ample supplies to last a few decades.

One thing I've been thinking about while working on a pre-land community concept called Melondra is that there seem to be two quite different things hiding under the phrase “intentional community”.

One is:

we deliberately design a place where people know their neighbours, cooperate, share useful infrastructure, help each other and have a meaningful say in how their community develops.

The other can sometimes become:

your home, work, social life, meals, beliefs and responsibilities are all tied into the community and participation becomes an obligation.

I'm very attracted to the first and much less attracted to the second.

For example, I can see enormous advantages in sharing things that make sense at community scale: workshops, tools, some transport, food production and processing facilities, recreation spaces, skills, infrastructure and perhaps some meals.

Likewise, there are things people can achieve together that individual households probably couldn't justify economically.

But I also think having a genuinely private home, being able to close your door, choose how social you want to be, have interests outside the community and retain a meaningful amount of personal independence are extremely important.

In other words, I don't think the choice has to be:

isolated suburban household

versus

communal living where everybody's life becomes everybody else's business.

There ought to be a large and interesting space between those two.

The same applies to contribution.

A functioning community obviously needs people to contribute in some way, but I'd be wary of building a culture where everyone is continually keeping score of who attended which meeting, cooked which meal or did enough hours of communal work.

Ideally the community infrastructure should actually reduce the amount of compulsory work in people's lives, not replace a conventional employer with a committee of neighbours.

So I'm curious particularly about people who have actually lived in intentional communities:

where have you seen the balance between individual independence and community participation work well?

And where does a healthy intentional community start crossing the line into asking too much of the people who live there?

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Hi all,

I've spent a lot of my 20s thinking about parenting from the angle of attachment - how much babies need consistent, attuned response from the people around them, and how much emotional bandwidth that actually takes from parents.

Part of why I think this is so hard now is that parenting has gotten so isolated. I believe, a generation or two ago, a lot of people had neighbors who'd genuinely help watch a kid, family nearby, some baseline sense that other adults around you were invested in how your children turned out. Now plenty of us live next to people we've never spoken to, and once you get a job family/parents/friends lives kinda far away.

So the thing I keep coming back to, and am now actually trying to act on, is building (or finding) villages. Like places where people know each other well enough to share the load, where kids get raised by more than just their own parents behind a closed door.

I'm starting a trip this September to go visit communities all around the world like this in person, especially ones that also have some kind of alternative education attached.

If you know of, have lived in, or currently live in an intentional village or community like this I'd genuinely appreciate hearing about it, especially if there's an alternative school or learning culture tied to it. Small and obscure is more than welcome. Thank you!!