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This is a list of intentional communities. An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle.
The Farm's outreach, combined with notoriety through popular media articles, led to a population boom that eventually peaked at around 1600 members living on the main property. Additionally, some satellite farm affinity communities which were located in the U.S. and other countries consolidated by moving to the Tennessee community. Signs ...
Community Service, Inc. was created in 1940 to advocate for the resurgence of the idealistic small-town family life, while the later Fellowship of Intentional Communities was created as an association of the full range of communitarian societies, including: secular or religious communities, communal societies, co-operative communities, and ...
Elmendorf Christian Community in Mountain Lake, Minnesota (founded in 1994, independent since 2005) [1] Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community in Frenchman Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada (independent since 1999) Grand River Christian Community in Jamesport, Missouri, United States (since 2014)
Shenandoah Homesteads Project is an unincorporated community in Rappahannock County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. References
Twin Oaks Community is an ecovillage [2] and intentional community of about one hundred people [3] living on 450 acres (1.8 km 2) in Louisa County, Virginia. [4] [5] It is a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities. [6] Founded in 1967, [7] it is one of the longest-enduring and largest secular intentional communities in North America ...
Cumberland Homesteads is a community located in Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States. Established by the New Deal-era Division of Subsistence Homesteads in 1934, the community was envisioned by federal planners as a model of cooperative living for the region's distressed farmers, coal miners, and factory workers. While the cooperative ...
In response to the Great Depression, the Subsistence Homesteads Division was created by the federal government in 1933 with the aim to improve the living conditions of individuals moving away from overcrowded urban centers while also giving them the opportunity to experience small-scale farming and home ownership. [6]