Cohousing Bus Tour (Boston Area) October 24, 2009

Curious about Cohousing? A personal visit to a variety of cohousing communities offers you an experience that no photo, website or book can offer. To provide you with this opportunity, the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US) sponsors daylong tours of cohousing communities in several areas around the nation. Come join us on this bus tour and "traveling workshop" led by a local and knowledgeable cohousing resident.

This tour will focus on several Cohousing communities in and around Boston and one in Peterborough, NH! We are planning to visit Mosaic Commons, Camelot Cohousing, New View Cohousing, Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm and either Cambridge Cohousing or Jamaica Plain.

As you travel between locations on a comfortable bus, the tour leader(s) will give participants a chance to introduce themselves, share general information about cohousing, answer questions, provide fact sheets and site plans, and prepare you for your 40-minute visit to each community. At each stop, a community host (often a long-time resident) will guide your group through his or her neighborhood and answer questions. Around mid-day, we eat lunch, which we sometimes get to eat in one of the communities' common houses with some of the residents. Optional gourmet boxed lunch or bring your own.

Cohousing communities offer nurturing places where people of all ages grow and age well. Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods. Cohousing residents are consciously committed to living as a community. The physical design encourages both social contact and individual space. Private homes contain all the features of conventional homes, but residents also have access to extensive common facilities such as open space, courtyards, a playground and a common house. We look forward to having you join us for a day full of learning, community building and fun.

More info:
Neil Planchon, neil@cohousing.org

Official Website: http://www.cohousing.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=41