Aponi Gardens

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About the Community

  • Forming
  • Rural

What we do

Aponi Gardens is over twelve acres of land in the greater Big Thicket region of Southeast Texas. The main property is along the northern gateway to the Big Thicket and the smaller recreational lot is near The Woodlands area. The goal is to establish a completely self-sufficient community through permaculture, community enterprises, agroforestry, holistic living and ecotourism.

Our Vision

The goal is to establish a completely self-sufficient community through permaculture, community enterprises, subsistence farming, agroforesty and ecotourism.

Our Mission

The goal is to establish a completely self-sufficient community through permaculture, community enterprises, subsistence farming, agroforesty and ecotourism.

  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Activities
  • Education
  • Services Business
  • Others
  • 0 member
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
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How to join

If you are interested in visiting, joining or becoming a co founder send me an email with your story. What you would hope to accomplish or experience from being a temporary member or co founder. The more information you submit will allow me to better discern if you are compatible with myself and if you will enjoy and find your time here constructive. Please tell me about your experience in these areas: gardening, camping, off grid living, animal husbandry, and specialized knowledge. You are responsible for providing all of your own necessities.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

To visit Aponi Gardens you must first become an online and exploring member. Send me an email as a letter of intention. The more information that you provide will better help me to determine if we are potentially compatible. Please include your skills, special knowledge, hobbies, interest, priorities in life, beliefs, current location of residence or if you are primarily nomadic, your experience in living off grid(or simply) and self sufficiency, and your hopes and intentions in life. Just let me know what is important to you, what you would hope to accomplish by becoming a member of Aponi Gardens. If I think that you are someone that I would like work with in creating an ecovillage and ecoresort then I will reply with the acceptable methods of payment for the initial three month exploratory membership. If, or when, I feel that your vision and intentions are compatible with mine I will send you an invitation to visit Aponi Gardens.

Primary decision-making authority

  • Single Leader or Founding Couple

One person or partnership has ultimate authority.

Governance structure

  • Founder/Leader-led

Primary authority rests with the community’s founder(s) or designated leader(s).

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • There is a one-time fee, investment, or share purchase to join the community separate from accessing housing
  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Join fee: $150
Monthly fees/dues: Yes (amount not specified)
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Garden(s), Outbuilding(s), Outdoor Kitchen, Fire pit, Gym or sports area

Frequency of communal meals

  • Rarely

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies
  • Religions
  • Christian
  • Jewish
  • Hindu
  • Native

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a single individual, couple, or Family Trust

Setting

  • Rural

Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%
  • Land area size
    13 acres

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Location

  • Texas, United States

Aponi Gardens

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