Coslor Cove off-grid garden-farming community

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About the Community

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  • Rural

What we do

We are creating a self-reliance community where families can extract themselves from being dependent on the power grid, gas company, city water, and grocery stores in the city. This is not a political or religious statement, it’s an agricultural cooperative created for the benefit of its members. Over 1 million people in the USA own their land or homes through cooperatives.

We are building 200 family online-but-off-grid, self-reliance community as an agricultural co-op under Arizona law. Your membership in the co-op makes you a co-owner of the entire 1,298 acres, AND, you get whichever 2-acre lot you pick for your exclusive use on a 99-year auto-renewing lease.

There is no HOA to tell you what you can and can’t do with your 2 acre paradise. However, since this IS an agricultural co-op, each shareholder…

A) agrees to build an off-grid home, well, a shop, barn, garden and greenhouse,
B) is required to engage in some form of pesticide-free agriculture – anything from raising worms to horses to fruits and veggies.
C) can (eventually) sell their surplus produce through the co-op which will eventually get an account with Associated Foods or the like.
D) can (eventually) sell products or services of their home-based businesses through the co-op’s online and brick-and-mortar stores.
E) can save around 30-35% on the cost of building their home, barn and greenhouse through bulk purchasing arranged by co-op members.

Why do developers never create such cooperative communities like this? Because there’s no profit in it! This is a non-profit agricultural co-op, created under Arizona law for the benefit of the shareholders.

Our Vision

Our mission is to make it as inexpensive as reasonably possible for a family to leave the lifestyle of dependencies in the city and transition comfortably to a country culture of cooperation and self-reliance, debt-free and surrounded by other self-reliant families.

Our Mission

Our mission is to make it as inexpensive as reasonably possible for a family to leave the lifestyle of dependencies in the city and transition comfortably to a country culture of cooperation and self-reliance, debt-free and surrounded by other self-reliant families.

  • Community type
  • Cohousing
  • Ecovillage
  • Intentional Neighborhoods
  • Activities
  • Education
  • Others
  • 5 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
Total
5

How to join

1. Watch (Like & Follow) our update videos for our previous community, Riverbed Ranch, and for Coslor Cove:
Riverbed Ranch: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCefJX23MKjnPm2Ta65e9V4Q/videos
Coslor Cove: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2YBKaHSa3dMy9DR74uurFg
2. Watch our 1st and 2nd introductory videos – https://OSRcommunity.com/introduction-utah/ (site loads slowly)
3. Attend a Wednesday night Q&A zoom call – https://www.eventbrite.com/o/academy-of-self-reliance-27972265747
4. Take a tour! – https://www.eventbrite.com/o/academy-of-self-reliance-27972265747
5. Write up your “Self-Reliance Journey” (1-page history) and your “Transition Plan”.
6. Meet with our founder Philip Gleason to answer any remaining questions, review the shareholder application, and pay for your share in the co-op ($35,000). Assuming the board of directors finds that you are serious about putting in the work to becoming self-reliant, and you have the resources to build out your 2.0 to 2.4 acre homestead (at least $235,000), your application will be approved.
7. Fill out the shareholder paperwork (online).
8. Pay for your share in the land co-op.
9. Pick your lot.
10. Design your passive-solar home and your lot layout.
11. Begin setting up your infrastructure (solar, septic, well, and greenhouse)

Basic expectations or agreements for members

To register for our tours, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/o/riverbed-ranch-27972265747

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: $25000
Monthly fees/dues: $45
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes (some debt)
Our goal is to help people get out of a lifestyle of dependencies in the city. This includes getting out of debt. You’re not truly self-reliant if the bank can take away your home! Each household will need to generate revenue to sustain itself, through goods and/or services provided to customers both within and without the community. Also, the co-op itself will (eventually) produce revenue through various agricultural projects. It is hoped (but not guaranteed) that these revenue-generation projects will eventually replace the need for a monthly maintenance fee.

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

Greenhouse(s), Outbuilding(s), Swimming pond or pool

Frequency of communal meals

  • 1-3 times per month

Substance use culture

  • Substance use appears in public spaces but no pressure
  • Religions
  • Christian

Property status

  • Privately owned

Setting

  • Rural

Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.

Self-produced energy

  • 33 - 66%

Energy sources used

  • Photovoltaic Solar

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%
  • Land area size
    1298 acres

Reviews

Location

  • Arizona, United States

Coslor Cove off-grid garden-farming community

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