Mountain Hearth Village

  • Community
  • 2 followers

About the Community

  • Forming
  • Rural

What we do

We will be an earth-friendly community with shared values around love, respect, and inclusivity. We expect to be forming during most of 2024 while we envision and plan what kind of community we can be. There will be perhaps 12 homes at most, depending on how they are built. This is a beautiful, sloping property about 40 minutes east of progressive Asheville, NC, in Western NC, which has several national forests and hundreds of waterfalls. Please join our Zoom meetings to contribute your beauty to the vision.

Our Vision

We are now creating our formal mission statement, and some of the values we have discussed include making room for everyone’s voice, being flexible, creating a eco-friendly development, growing some of our own food, transmitting our values through song. Please see our website for details.

Our Mission

We are now creating our formal mission statement, and some of the values we have discussed include making room for everyone’s voice, being flexible, creating a eco-friendly development, growing some of our own food, transmitting our values through song. Please see our website for details.

  • Community type
  • Cohousing
  • 14 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
Total
14

How to join

Simply fill out our membership form and attend your first meeting; if you want to then become a member with voting privileges, a small monthly fee is involved.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Either email [email protected] or call 828-583-0434 and we will find a time together

Primary decision-making authority

  • Single Leader or Founding Couple

One person or partnership has ultimate authority.

Governance structure

  • Sociocratic/Circle-Based

Organized in circles or domains with distributed authority.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • There is a labor obligation
  • 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

Monthly fees/dues: Yes (amount not specified)
Labor: Encouraged or suggested (3 hours/week)
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes (some debt)

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

Garden(s), Vehicle Share, Workshop, Fire pit

Frequency of communal meals

  • 1-3 times per month

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By several individuals through an LLC or a Tenancy In Common agreement

Setting

  • Rural

Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.

Self-produced energy

  • Up to 33%

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%
  • Land area size
    3.5 acres

Reviews

Location

  • North Carolina, United States

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