Robin's Nest Cohousing

  • Community

About the Community

  • Forming
  • Ecological
  • Town/Small City

What we do

These are the principles driving us to create this community-place:
We wish to be good ancestors. We may not have or re-learn all the skills that have been lost to our generation, but we will teach our children what we know, and give them the space, time, tools and courage to try, fail, and continue to learn.
We recognize that we are part of nature, and not above it. Through a mixture of permaculture principles, rewilding, degrowth, and careful attention to our impact on the land, we will do what we can to create a home that sustains all living things.
We are not going gentle into that good night, but we also recognize that grief has a place when we are hospicing modernity. There will be complicated feelings that ebb and flow and morph into each other.
Every end is a new beginning, and we will look for joy in what we might build together.
Women’s leadership is essential. We will be intentionally prioritizing women’s voices and expertise.
The current culture of modernity in our locale is one that is deeply poisoned by racism, classism, sexism, and hostility to disability, queerness, and many other minoritized identities. We do not expect anyone to already be fully healed from these biases (how can we when we are swimming in a stew of them!) but we do expect people to admit that these prejudices exist, be mindful of their presence in our own minds, and actively working to do better.
We seek like-minded people and especially families that feel a sense of urgency in creating a community and network of individuals willing to support each other. Skills of all kinds are welcome – especially if your skills include learning, adapting, and creative problem solving.

Our Mission

We aim to become a group of families working together to share our strengths, resources, skills, and support for each other as the current and future consequences of the ongoing polycrisis unfold.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Community type
  • Cohousing
  • Ecovillage
  • Intentional Neighborhoods
  • Sustainability practices
  • Permaculture design
  • Activities
  • Property management
  • Others
  • 4 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
4

How to join

A more formal membership process will be established once we have a sustained group of core members. If you would like to help shape that future, please get in touch.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

As we are currently in the forming stage, please message our community using the button on this page to get in contact with us and meet those already involved

Primary decision-making authority

  • Small Leadership Group

A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.

Decision-making process

  • Consent-Based (Sociocracy)

Decisions proceed unless someone has a reasoned objection.

Governance structure

  • Sociocratic/Circle-Based

Organized in circles or domains with distributed authority.

Conflict resolution approach

We currently plan to use sociocracy to organize and run the community after the group reaches a sufficient size.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • There is a labor obligation
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Labor: Encouraged or suggested (2 hrs/week)
Members with pre-existing debt: allowed

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Common House, Garden(s), Greenhouse(s), Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Large Scale Kitchen, Swingsets & play areas, Gym or sports area

Frequency of communal meals

  • About once a week

Significant food acquisition practices

  • Locally sourced

Community activities and engagement

  • Transition Town (post-petroleum and off-grid communities.)
  • Neighborhood, Community Housing, or Homeowner's Association

Age demographics

  • Mixed adults (few or no children)

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Promoted Needs and Offers

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8 months ago

Join us in the mountains of Western North Carolina

Coweeta Heritage Center/Talking Rock Farm is located in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Coweeta is located in a beautiful and diverse temperate rain forest. It feels very remote here yet we are just 12 miles from Franklin, NC. Winters can be mild. Coweeta is blessed with springs and a stream, pristine forests, and abundant wildlife. Power is provided by a hydro-electric system which is not connected to the grid. An organic garden and trout pond provide healthy food that is also shared with the local community. Hiking, kayaking, and other outdoor activities are just out the back door. Coweeta is looking for others who would like to join together to form an Intentional Community embracing the principles of Voluntary Simplicity. Simply put (no pun intended): We wish “to live simply so that others may simply live.” It is a recognition that nature provides us with valuable services and resources that we can use to enrich our lives. Utilizing local resources, appropriate technology, and working cooperatively, we can discover creative ways to meet our needs as “directly and simply as possible.”. An example of this, in the tradition of many Indigenous People”, is to gather, and use wildcrafted foods as part of our diet. There is great joy in going to nature’s grocery for our sustenance. Voluntary Simplicity is based on the recognition that “very little is needed to live well” and that “abundance is a state of mind.” Living lower on the economic ladder allows us more time and freedom to pursue other life goals: community and social engagement, family time, artistic or intellectual projects, more fulfilling employment, political participation, sustainable living, spiritual exploration, and more. According to the Voluntary Collective, “The grounding assumption of Voluntary Simplicity is that all human beings have the potential to live meaningful, free, happy and infinitely diverse lives while consuming no more than an equitable share of (the world’s) resource

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