cambia

  • Community
  • 2 followers

About the Community

  • Established
  • Rural

What we do

We are forming an egalitarian and income sharing community. We are co-creating a culture of social sustainability and harmony that nourishes us as well as the earth. We focus on re-humanizing the scale of our lives. We do that with slower pace, balance in our lives, deep social connection, natural building, education, creativity, and intuitive structure to our time and space.
While we are focused on interpersonal and cultural aspects of our community, we are interested in building small, beautiful, natural housing, doing our best to be ecologically conscious, using new and old technologies, and upholding values of minimalism.
We want to continually learn about what works in community and do our best to integrate our lessons into our lifestyle.
We are planning educational programs in subjects including experiential natural building workshops, off grid technologies, crafts, and nature awareness. We are working on understanding what makes communities thrive through sociological research.

Our Vision

We aspire for a small and stable community with a high level of sharing and connection. We are inspired by the nature around us as we attempt to create human habitat that emulates the beauty and complexity of living systems. We seek to intertwine reason and intuition, aesthetics and efficiency. We are interested in increasing our skills and education through experience, mentorship, sharing and study, and growing as individuals. Within a thriving cluster of neighboring income sharing communities, we are creating a viable, regenerative alternative to the mainstream. We intend to strengthen the relationships between existing communities.

Our Mission

We aspire for a small and stable community with a high level of sharing and connection. We are inspired by the nature around us as we attempt to create human habitat that emulates the beauty and complexity of living systems. We seek to intertwine reason and intuition, aesthetics and efficiency. We are interested in increasing our skills and education through experience, mentorship, sharing and study, and growing as individuals. Within a thriving cluster of neighboring income sharing communities, we are creating a viable, regenerative alternative to the mainstream. We intend to strengthen the relationships between existing communities.

  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Commune
  • Activities
  • Education
  • 7 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
Total
7

How to join

Contact us, email correspondence, short visit, longer visit/internship/provisional membership, then full membership. We can adapt this process for special cases.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

read through our website, then email with answers to the questionnaire on the visiting section of our website.

Primary decision-making authority

  • All Community Members Together

The whole membership decides collectively.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Economic model

  • Complete Income-Sharing

All member income goes into common pool for community use.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • There is a labor obligation

Additional economic information

Labor required: 36 hours/week
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes (some debt)
we share all income. some work will have to be for dollars, some for local currency, some for domestics, we’ll figure it out as we go. you don’t have to have an existing job, we have access to paid work. we don’t really keep track of labor hours. but we have a schedule that we all agree on and are expected to fulfill.

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

Common House, Garden(s), Vehicle Share, Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Swimming pond or pool, Hot tub or hot springs, Outdoor Kitchen, Fire pit, Swingsets & play areas, Internet, woodshop

Frequency of communal meals

  • Approximately all meals

Substance use culture

  • Substance use appears in public spaces but no pressure
  • Religions
  • Buddhist
  • Jewish
  • Wiccan, Paganism, or Earth Religions

Property status

  • Privately owned

Setting

  • Rural

Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.

Self-produced energy

  • Up to 33%

Energy sources used

  • Wind
  • Photovoltaic Solar

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%
  • Land area size
    15 acres

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Location

  • Virginia, United States

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