Cohousing-L Mailing List: Mini Cohousing in NC and potential site in Mass

[Diana Leafe Christian (diana]

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In response to Whitney in Masschusetts who's moving to the Chapel Hill  
area of North Carolina, a group is meeting to form an intentional  
community in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area, and I know some of  
the members. Nice folks. Here's the URL of their Triangle Area Meet-up  
Group: http://www.meetup.com/The-Triangle-Intentional-Communities-Meetup-Group/
	They sometimes meet in the Common House of Solterra Cohousing. I can  
put you in touch with Christian Stalberg, the man who started the  
group, if you like.

        Diana
Diana Leafe Christian
diana [at] ic.org

> I was so glad to see these posts.? My family and I lived in an  
> intentional community with a large farmhouse and 3 standalone houses  
> in Silver Spring, Maryland.? We shared child rearing some, meals 4  
> times a week (and a kitchen - I highly recommend everyone have at  
> least some kind of private kitchen space).? I would not have been  
> able to adopt my daughter if we had not lived there at the time.
>
> We moved on to Massachusetts, and purchased a property with which we  
> hoped to develop the same.? It's riverfront on the southcoast, near  
> Onset, Mass. surrounded by maybe 50 - 100 acres, with a flat,  
> cleared area adjacent and owned by the town that we always hoped to  
> use as community garden.? Chickens and small livestock could easily  
> be had, and the neighbors are easy - and share our vision.? They own  
> some of the surrounding land, as well, so make good neighbors for  
> such a project!
>
> It has become necessary for us to move to North Carolina, so my post  
> is two fold.
>
> 1.? Our property is available, and if anyone is interested in doing  
> a mini cohousing project we'd love to talk - even maybe take part,  
> as I am involved in town government and might be able to facilitate  
> process by providing contacts and procedural information.? There are  
> lots of options.? Email me for our website and details (seems like  
> posting it here while it's on the open market might be not within  
> the guidelines?)
>
> 2.? We are looking for such a project in North Carolina, Raleigh -  
> Chapel Hill-ish area.? I know there are quite a few communities in  
> that region, and even a home or two for sale there.? We'd like  
> something slightly smaller, I think (but we are not done evaluating,  
> and are open to possibilities).? Anyone else out there looking for  
> such a thing in that area?? We are garden-and-animal centered,  
> woodworking homeschoolers.? I would so love to find other  
> homeschooling families interested in the same thing - but it isn't a  
> necessary quality.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Whitney