Tag: members
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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 […]
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All Sold – Treehouse Village Ecohousing
Atlantic Canada’s first cohousing community slated for completion in early 2023 A “seed of an idea” planted more than four […]
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What are you waiting for? Come home to Treehouse Village!
Treehouse VIllage Ecohousing is looking for additional younger folks and families to claim the remaining homes in our unique, sustainable, healthy, multi-age community in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
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Returning to Nova Scotia
I’ve lived a lot of places in my adult life. I confess that I was born in the US, so […]
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Informal Childcare Arrangements in a Cohousing Village
My name is Caitlin, and I struggle to ask for help. As a result of this single-minded independence, I have […]
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Five Week Storm
The year 2020 will be memorable for many of us. My partner and I had an especially memorable event in October with the arrival of our first child. This time of distress really showed us the value of a cohousing community.
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It takes a village to raise a child, so we’re building one
It takes a village to raise a child, they say, but they don’t actually tell new parents how to find one. It sounds wonderful, but not necessarily realistic for many. Treehouse became “our village” long before we would build our home on the land. Now, we can be that village for others, too.
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“Yes! Let’s do it!” – Building a cohousing community in Bridgewater
My first introduction to Treehouse Village came when friends reached out to share their big dream of building a cohousing community that would become the greenest neighbourhood in Nova Scotia. I wanted to help them make it happen. In order to build this custom neighbourhood, future neighbours would have to join as early as possible…
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The Pull of the Little City
I think I’ve finally found the solution to my rural versus urban quandary in Treehouse Village Ecohousing. Bridgewater offers the amenities which I usually associate with urban living in addition to the benefits of a more rural lifestyle, and when you add cohousing into the mix, it covers all bases!
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Why I Traded my Tiny House for Cohousing
If you’d told me in 2016, while I was building my Tiny House, that in 2020 I’d have put down my life savings on a deposit for a home in a town I’d only been to twice, that was projected to cost more money than I’d earned in my entire life, I’d have laughed, then…
