We are currently a group of twenty two individuals, ranging in age from 7 to 73, with a common interest in all aspects of sustainable/holistic living in the widest sense, from the practical eco-approach to everyday living to deepening our self-awareness.

Currently we share meditations, around two evening meals per week, some outings, and the gardening, maintenance and administration work. We are learning a lot about the benefits and responsibilities of informal community and share a lot of laughter, as well as being supported in dealing with our personal challenges. Our inter-personal communication skills are growing along with the respect we all have for each other.

Vision and Values

An informal community, living more sustainably in the full sense: personally, as a group, and ecologically. We want to embody sustainable living to nourish our lives and the wider community, and to show it can be done. Important qualities of community for us are:

• Serving something greater than our own needs
• Mutual support
• Shared values and commitments
• Clarity and integrity in how we communicate and relate to each other
• Respect for each other's autonomy
• Wanting to deepen our awareness in everyday life and work, for example by embodying mindfulness, integrity, right livelihood, care for each other, serving the highest good, joyfulness and gratitude.
• Simple, non-doctrinal, shared practices such as meditation.
• Acceptance and support for each other's individual life path.

Shared Delights

• living in a quiet, attractive, rural location accessible to nearby town
• having a shared market garden
• a community which offers support and companionship and enables each household to maintain a good degree of independence.
• scope to work on site, with shared and individual workspaces
• being part of the wider community, with people visiting us and vice versa
• good listening and expression
• safety and support to grow in a non-judgmental environment
• a nurturing and supportive context, both emotionally and practically

Shared Desires (Membership Criteria)

Shared values: Mutual support, appreciation, mutual respect. Service to the highest good; simple awareness practices such as attunement, shared silence. Sustainability; human and environmental.