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We love all our visitors!
A big advantage to being a “cohousing” community is the shared connections we have with each other at Treehouse Village — and with each other’s visitors, who come for the afternoon to hang out, or the evening to attend an event here, or to stay overnight in one of our guest rooms. We’ve welcomed at
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Repair Café: Where Treehouse Meets Bridgewater
At Treehouse Village Ecohousing, we believe that community thrives when people come together to share skills, stories, and laughter. That spirit was on full display at Bridgewater’s recent Repair Café, where Treehouse residents joined forces with neighbours to breathe new life into well-loved items. The Repair Café, co-led by Treehouse resident Etienne and a couple
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Who needs a gym membership when you have Cohousing?
By Katherine Harman, Treehouse resident “There is no drug in current or prospective use that holds as much promise for sustained health as a lifetime program of physical exercise.” – Walter M. Bortz I admit that there was confirmation bias at play when I first read that quote from renowned age researcher Walter Bortz. I
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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!lymphedema 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,
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From Berlin to Bridgewater in less than a year
By Bastian Gruber, Treehouse Village community member It has been a big year of trade-offs and jumping in an adventure head first. Joining a co-housing community and moving to a small town were, what we thought, the biggest challenges. Shortly after we signed the TVE shareholders’ agreement, we felt the floor ripped beneath us with
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A special “Rite of Passage trek” to Treehouse Village
A Rite of Passage is a ceremony or event marking an important stage in someone’s life. My partner, Matt, and I decided to go on a very special pilgrimage – to mark our own “rite of passage” as we transition to our new home at Treehouse Village. We decided to walk the 130 kilometers (80
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“We were home”: Treehouse Village Ecohousing Welcomes Its First Residents
Treehouse Village Ecohousing, Atlantic Canada’s first cohousing community, has its first residents. The first family to move in was that of Clara Lovatt and Kathy Horton in late July. They were joined later the same day by the Stonhams – Caitlin, David, and their son Alfie. A few days later, Shirley Robb joined them at
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Many families are moving to Bridgewater, and when Arlene, Wendy and Cedar (their 13 yr. old Labradoodle) pulled up stakes in Victoria, there were 9⅔ (Katy & Michael; Rick-not yet) households living there. Their arrival on December 18, 2022, made the community ⅓ present, even though none are yet living in their Treehouse homes. Getting
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A multilingual cohousing community
Pourquoi? Warum? Por qué? Waarom? Why are so many folks flocking to purchase a home at Treehouse Village Ecohousing in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia? One of the exciting things about our community is all the languages our members speak — French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch (so far!). But no matter the language, we all speak
