Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Meals

[Kathryn McCamant (kmccamant]

At Nevada City Cohousing, we don¹t tie the abilty to eat common meals to
cooking. We try to get all adults to participate in the cook teams, but
other than reminders there are no penalties for not being on a cook team.
This means we don¹t really know if people are eating and not cooking. I
suspect that those who don¹t cook much, rarely eat common meals. But we
would always encourage people who can¹t cook (new baby, elder or sick, or
just generally overwhelmed) to come to common meals if they can, even if
they aren¹t cooking.

That being said, Leal..who is 80 something and has had Stage 4 lung cancer
for 4 years (She reports her doctors can¹t figure why she is still alive!?
Must be those common meals!!!), regularly comes to meals and pitches in as
she can on mealsŠsometimes by providing her famous German Chocolate
Brownies for dessert.

We just generally feel that meals is where so much of our community life
happens or begins (new ideas, sorting out old ones) that we want to
encourage everyone to participate as much as they can, with the idea if
they are coming to meals more then they will likely also do more for/in
the community all around because they will feel more connected to the
whole thing. 

Katie 
-- 
Kathryn McCamant, President
CoHousing Solutions
241B Commercial Street
Nevada City, CA 95959
T.530.478.1970  C.916.798.4755
www.cohousing-solutions.com







On 9/14/15, 3:52 PM, "Cohousing-L on behalf of Ann Zabaldo"
<cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] cohousing.org on
behalf of zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>Are there any cohousing communities out there that allow members to pay
>only? And not cook or clean?
>
>Under what circumstances do you allow this? For instance if a person has
>a new baby, is elderly, has a serious conflict etc.
>
>Do any of you have a system in which only some people cook and clean and
>other people only pay?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Ann Zabaldo
>Takoma Village Cohousing
>Washington DC
>
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