Wanted: info re rural y2k communities

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I'm interested in finding a community in Western part of the U.S. where we could do community farming, etc. where we could all help each other. I have small children - specifically a family centered environment.

-- Deborah Giraud (idoyoga@earthlink.net), November 22, 1998

Answers

A good place to begin might be the Intention Communities website at:

http://www.ic.org.

It's sponsored by the Federation of Intentional Communities. Be sure to follow the "IC List" link. I don't think any of these communities were set up necessarily as a response to Y2K, but there are many people out there building communities in order to try to build a "saner" more sustainable culture. There are rural, urban, religious, hippie, child-centered, agrarian, and some pretty silly communities listed. A good resource for anyone interested in joining or starting a community, and a good read for anyone else who's simply curious...

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), November 22, 1998.


Make sure that they, whichever one you select, wil allow you to visit for a reasonable time and participate in their "Community". We had so many people wanting to "Study" us that we would not allow study but we openly encouraged participation, bu then again we were a Quaker oriented community, in 1970.

Chuck, who fondly remembers New Swarthmoor

-- Chuck a Night Driver (rienzoo@en.com), November 22, 1998.


Deborah, go to the Cassandra Project website. On the left side of the page, scan down until you find Community Preparedness Groups:

http://millennia-bcs.com/casframe.htm

-- Gayla Dunbar (privacy@please.com), November 23, 1998.


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