Headwaters Garden and Learning Center is built around a shared ethic of land stewardship, reverence for nature, mutual support and respect, and a sustainable life. We strive to build a resilient web of relationships between our community, ourselves, nature, and spirit. We want to cultivate food, energy, and our human spirit to honor all our relations, and thereby eliminate impoverishment and exploitative relationships with Earth and humanity.
Our shared work on the land, in our neighborhoods, and in our local and global community will build a healthy environment to support our children and grandchildren for many generations to come, and we aspire to make all our decisions with future generations, all beings and relations, peace, and justice in mind.
We have received a permit for eight homes and one tiny house. Six of the homes are now completed, one is under construction, and we have one home site left. It is a condominium form of ownership – people buy a home site, not a lot, and build their own house.
Headwaters works to provide the people who live here with a nurturing community, and to provide the public with an educational, recreational, and healing program to help support sustainable livelihoods. We strive to grow a lot of our own food, live in harmony with nature, and model what a permaculture community can be.
Headwaters works to provide the people who live here with a nurturing community, and to provide the public with an educational, recreational, and healing program to help support sustainable livelihoods. We strive to grow a lot of our own food, live in harmony with nature, and model what a permaculture community can be.
People who want to join Headwaters are expected to visit and come to work days we organize monthly, then if they are still interested, they start attending our monthly meetings on a regular basis. There is an application process, and after some time spent attending meetings, visitors can submit an application that will be considered by the group. To build a home there, you would buy a home site and agree to pay monthly condo fees for shared facilities. Currently, the home sites we have left is for sale for $50,000, where the average building lot in our area is over $60,000. The development costs of the home sites are much lower than average, because they include access to a sewer line, electric, and internet. The connections need to be made, which would be estimated at $1,000 per connection for the excavator and materials. New homes need to drill their own well or hook up to the town water line, both of which would cost in the range of $3,000 – $5,000. The ownership structure is a limited equity arrangement, and the community has the first right of refusal if people decide to sell.
Please contact us and let us know something about yourself, when and why you’d like to visit. We sometimes have camping and a small guest house available in the summer, but do not have much for guest facilities otherwise. There are Bed & Breakfasts and campgrounds nearby. Our summer guest facilities are often filled by WWOOFers.
A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.
Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.
Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.
Join fee: $25
Monthly fees/dues: $120
Labor: Encouraged or suggested (0 hours/week)
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes
Headwaters is a business in addition to being a housing development, and residents can choose how much of the business they want to own. The Headwaters Garden & Learning Center is an educational organization that works to provide training, recreational opportunities, healing, and creative arts to people who want to change their lifestyle. People come to Headwaters for these activities, and residents can choose to participate or not, but must be prepared for public visitors.
Garden(s), Greenhouse(s), Vehicle Share, Outbuilding(s), Swimming pond or pool, Hot tub or hot springs, Large Scale Kitchen, Tractor & Farm Equipment, Stage or Auditorium, Fire pit, Swingsets & play areas, Internet
Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.
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