Cohousing-L Mailing List: WELCOME TO SOLTERRA!

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WELCOME TO SOLTERRA!

We're a new passive solar co-housing community on the western edge of
Durham County, Durham, North Carolina.  It's country living at its finest
with city conveniences including the cultural advantages of several
colleges and universities, including Duke and UNC Chapel Hill. There are
good schools, shopping, hiking and biking trails.  Museums and fine
restaurants abound.

What about Solterra?  We're nestled on twenty acres of woodlands and open
fields; there are forty homesites, each with direct car access.  All the
homes are  free standing with the exception of two sets of duplexes. 
They are architect or designer planned to suit  individual tastes, but
must meet Architectural Review Board and covenant requirements.  Each
home accesses one of three pathways, all leading to the common areas.  No
need to cross a road!

We offer all the best aspects of co-housing.  There are ample play spaces
for our children, including an adult friendly tree house.  That means
accessible!  Our organic gardens were a great success this year, with
crops of flowers and vegetables.  A group effort succeeded in erecting an
effective deer fence.  It's still a happiness, however, to look out the
window at the adjoining woods, and see the mother deer and her three
babies paying a morning visit.  There's a tree swing, a huge sand box, a
sliding pole.

Our common house is in the planning stage.  We hold parties in our Little
Common House, a large shed that was part of the original farmstead.  We
eat together each week  at potlucks in the shed or at each others' homes,
or out in the meadow.  We cater to a variety of eating styles from
macrobiotic, vegan, and vegetarian, to meat preferences.

Solterrans range in age from not-quite-here to over seventy, and people
come from all over the country.  We're care givers, teachers, business
people, health care professionals, artists, musicians, and writers.  We
work by consensus.  We play by heart.

There are currently fourteen families in residence, and our non resident
members are active participants in the community.  By year's end, there
will be twenty families living here.  

There are only a few lots left at Solterra.  We're looking for  a few
dedicated co-housing families to join us.   Want to hear more?  Please
contact:

Judith Krassner
Email: GJKrass [at] juno.com.
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