Avalon Springs - Seasonal Ecovillage

Seasonal Ecovillage

The Ecovillage at Avalon Springs is planned and permitted for 30 earthen homes, a great common house with intern housing and gathering spaces, a maintenance yard and shop, a multi-use office building and retail space, and an experiential learning center for children of all ages. It is located across the street from Avalon Springs' Eco-Resort with hot springs, healing center, and special events complex.

Twenty homes will house seasonal residents who spend one to three months a year living in the ecovillage. These seasonal residents will own their home as a fractional, sharing with several other owners who come during the other months of the year. For example, one group will come in July. That same group will live in the ecovillage every July, growing closer year by year. That group will look forward to their July together at Avalon Springs, their seasonal ecovillage.

Seasonal residents will participate in group events, community meetings, and service time gardening, taking care of the animals, or otherwise participating in the stewardship of the community. They will participate in an adapted consensus model and hold accountability to a shared statement of intention, which we call Avalon's Field of Alliance. For their time each year, they ARE the ecovillage at Avalon Springs. This provides a unique opportunity for folks who may not be able to pick up and move to the country permanently, but who want to experience deep enriching community experience on a consistent basis every year with family and friends.

The remaining ten homes will house permanent and semi-permanent residents who have a gift for creating fun ourishing intentional community spirit and activities. This age-diverse group will anchor the community spirit in the ecovillage, and provide a consistent through-line as well as ongoing care of land, gardens and animals, as they look forward to the monthly reunion with the seasonal residents who return to their beloved ecovillage at the beginning of each new month.

Homes will be built in three sizes: 1. Small houses at 500 square feet, 2. Medium houses at 800 square feet, and 3. Large houses at 1200 square feet. These are obviously much smaller than most modern houses, because they will include just a small kitchen and modest sized rooms, since the common house will offer a large beautiful kitchen, dining area, rooms for personal guests, recreation rooms, and much more that would normally have to be contained within a family home. Ecovillage residents will also have access to the hot springs, library, learning center, and special events site at the retreat center/resort across the street.

Seasonal Ecovillage fractional homes are not yet for sale. This program is expected to come online in Spring 2010. Pricing for the seasonal ecovillage homes is expected to begin at about $65,000 for a small home for one month a year. Priority choice of desired home and desired month(s) will be given to those who have invested time and money as Founding Members of Avalon Springs.

Click here to see photos of the site for the community and gardens.

Click here to see Avalon's Plan for Clean Green Energy.