Category: Community Life
The Community Life category applies to all posts that describe our community and how we choose to live together in community. It includes posts about the people in our community as well as posts about our governance methodology known as Sociocracy.
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Birds of a feather flock together – Online fun during Covid-19
Last Friday, rather than having fun with just the adults at Treehouse Village, we decided to try and have some online fun that involved some of our community kids. Our event planning team put on their thinking caps and came up with a community craft night, where we would all sit together over video conferencing
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Why does cohousing make sense for our families?
Treehouse Village parents weigh in When I decided to write a blog post to share my family’s thought process on moving to a cohousing community, I thought it would be interesting to hear from other families who are part of this project. I asked some TVE members with kids, “What was the clincher for you
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Finding our village: Why cohousing is right for our family
As we watched, my husband Dan and I looked at each other. We were both thinking something along these lines: This is genius! Why doesn’t everyone live like this? Could we do this?
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Workshop #4 and Approval of Schematic Design
On December 7-8 we did our final design workshop. At the workshop we approved the schematic design, the architects will shift into the design development phase, where we will refine the plans add more detail. Construction drawings will follow and we’ll be building before you know it! Treehouse Village is already a hive of activity.
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Design Workshop #3 – Private Homes
The weekend began with a great reveal of the initial design of our common house based upon the input provided at the previous design workshop. In this workshop, we spent the weekend talking through the various features of our private homes.
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First Member’s Meeting & Group-Forming Series
What a great group came out for our first members’ meeting on Oct 21st! We broke the ice, asked and answered lots of questions, and enjoyed some delectable eats (a sign of good things to come!). We look forward to welcoming more of you at our next meeting. Group-Forming Series The first step in building