Author: Treehouse Village
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“Cohousing gaining traction”: Treehouse Village in the News
Treehouse Village Ecohousing, Atlantic Canada’s first cohousing community, was mentioned this week in a Canadian Press feature on housing affordability in Canada. In the article, CP journalist Ian Bickis describes how European countries are addressing housing affordability, and contrasts their efforts with those of Canada. He notes that the situation is improving in Canada with initiatives to develop new types of housing, including cohousing. “Co-housing is also gaining traction,” Bickis writes. “Some examples include Treehouse Village Ecohousing in Bridgewater, N.S., Little Mountain Cohousing in Vancouver and a smattering of others on the West Coast.” Bickis also quotes Dalhousie University’s Ren…
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Tea and Cookies with the Candidates
By Allyson Rowley, Community Reporter Like the rest of the province, the Town of Bridgewater is in the midst of municipal elections that will culminate on Saturday, October 19. Nine candidates are vying for six spots on Bridgewater’s Town Council. Treehouse Village residents are highly engaged in deciding who will get our votes. We’re researching the candidates’ views and backgrounds, we’re attending “Meet the Candidates” events, and we’re organizing watch parties to chat with our neighbours and hear their opinions. Community member Kathy Horton decided to go one step further: She reached out to all nine candidates and invited them…
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The Common House is Open!
A birthday dance party and a children’s summer camp are just two of the many activities that marked the opening of Treehouse Village Ecohousing’s 4000 square foot Common House earlier this summer. The Common House, which includes laundry facilities, two guest rooms, a dining hall, communal kitchen, children’s play room and lounge and workspace, was given conditional occupancy last month by the Town of Bridgewater, and TVE residents wasted no time in putting the jointly owned space to use. The two guest rooms on the lower floor are already booked for most of the summer by relatives of TVE residents…
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Treehouse Villagers Choose Condo Board Directors
Treehouse Village reached another milestone on April 28, as the community’s newly registered condominium corporation held its first Annual General Meeting and chose the new condo board. Self-governed and co-developed by its residents, Treehouse Village is a welcome option for those seeking eco-friendly, community-oriented living. One of the first decisions the community made in 2018 was to select sociocracy for our decision-making processes. Sociocracy is a governance system for groups that wish to self-govern based on values of equity and inclusion, in order to save time, make inclusive decisions and create more human organizations. The owner-households unanimously chose the following…
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You’re invited to Treehouse Village on Saturday, June 22!
Come celebrate the Summer Solstice with us! SAVE THE DATE: Treehouse Village is hosting a Community Open House on Saturday, June 22, between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Atlantic Canada’s first cohousing development, Treehouse Village Ecohousing is now a vibrant, multi-generational community. Our residents range in age from four months to over 80. Construction is almost complete on our 4000-sq.ft. Common House (the heart of any cohousing community) and all but one of our 30 condos are pre-sold. We’ve moved into our comfortable homes and have been hard at work putting the finishing touches on our energy-efficient Passive House development, powered by…
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‘We felt at home right from the day we arrived’
By Treehouse Village Ecohousing Treehouse Village Ecohousing is so excited to welcome our two new households! Sue and Phil Aylesworth made the trek to Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, from Windsor, Ontario, in January. They jumped right into the community — Phil operated the Treehouse snow plow and he now manages the site keys and access control, while Sue leads the “Craft & Chat” group and has taken on the role of Guest Room Steward. “We’d been investigating cohousing since 2021, when we first learned about the concept and Treehouse Village,” says Phil. “We were taken with the idea of living lightly,…
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“We did it!” Treehouse Village celebrates the completion of our eco-friendly, multi-age cohousing development
Photos by Shirley Robb, Treehouse community member By Allyson Rowley, Community Reporter Treehouse Village Ecohousing, Atlantic Canada’s first cohousing development, is now a vibrant, multi-age community with construction substantially completed and all but one of our 30 condos pre-sold. Residents have moved into their energy-efficient homes and are working together to put the finishing touches on this unique, community-oriented cohousing development. “This is an amazing achievement to see our dream fully become a reality,” says Andrew McQueen, President of our Condominium Corporation’s Board of Directors. Treehouse Village was launched more than five years ago by a group of private individuals,…
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The Maple: A bright, spacious home in a unique multi-generational community
Now available: Treehouse Village’s bright and spacious top-floor home — the Maple! This 1,006-sq.ft. condo offers two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a big kitchen, an open-concept living area, and plenty of room to work from home. You’ll enjoy a unique multi-age community, while sharing valuable common amenities and 16 acres of land with 29 other households. All this, located in Bridgewater — a thriving town on Nova Scotia’s beautiful South Shore! “There is something special happening here in Bridgewater with this wild, wacky group of people who have come together through Treehouse Village,” says Megan Beliveau. Meg and her partner, Matt…
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Treehouse in the News
Atlantic Canada’s first cohousing community is generating a lot of interest in the media, both regionally and nationally. In recent months, Treehouse Village Ecohousing has been featured in Maclean’s Magazine, on CBC Television and Radio, the Halifax Examiner, and even the Weather Network website. The media outlets have been interested in our passive house construction, our sharing of common spaces and values and, of course, the people who make up our community. As we near completion of the project, we expect more media interest in the new year. We’ll keep you posted, but in the meantime, here are some links…
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First Snowfall!
Treehouse Village woke up on December 4 to a blanket of snow covering our community. The residents lost no time in building snowpeople, sledding and tobogganing and otherwise enjoying the first snow accumulation of the year. Photos by Treehouse resident Sharon de Souza.