Meadowsong Ecovillage is an intentional community of about forty people who live on the 87 acres owned by Lost Valley Center. Some of us are staff and volunteers of the nonprofit, some of us work for a business that is onsite, some of us work from our own homes using the internet, a few of us are retired, and seven of us are children. In the summer our residential population grows with the addition of short-term volunteers and apprentices. We all support the Lost Valley Center programs by contributing at least two hours per week to cleaning our buildings and grounds, and by sharing our kitchen, lodge, swimming hole and other resources with our students and guests. The rent that many of us pay provides support to help keep the nonprofit afloat financially during the winter months when we offer fewer programs to the public.
We aspire to offer a “living laboratory” for demonstrating the various permaculture practices that we teach, but are in the process ourselves of learning how to implement these techniques, and have a long way to go before we are fully off -grid or sustainable.
We have zoning permission to build new homes on the land, which is unusual for rural areas anywhere on the west coast of United States. A few families here plan to build their own homes, and are in the process of creating the legal and financial structures needed to make home ownership possible.
All residents have the opportunity to:
All residents are expected to abide by the community living agreements.
