no seperate thread, but i have posted this before---somewhere...
maybe in the mud cat rest home/retirement home thread years ago??

we have 50 acres, there are 8 partners and we have been here for
over 30 years! we do not have a common religion, or guru, our
main thing we have in common is the land. We have orchards,
gardens, a sauna, and pond in common. We are located in the foothills
about an hour from the closest town. we are about a half a mile
from the nearest paved road, and 7 miles from the highway. There is almost one mile of gravel driveway here. We have quarterly meetings
where we decide on issues reagrding maintaining the land, roads,
bridges, etc, and other topics of personal interest. We have a
partnership agreement which came about thru many long, involved
meetings were we tried to come to agreement on policies, rules
and group decisions. We do not require consensus, as some groups
do.

Some of us are self employed, others commute to town to work.
For 20 years many of us were involved in a benefit event--
music, food, and crafts booths, the proceeds of which went
to support local projects at the school, newspaper, summer
camp, fire department, etc.

i suggest you check out Communities Magazine, the Co-Housing
movement and Fellowship for Intentional Community for more
info.

Communities magazine
JOURNAL OF COOPERATIVE LIVING
http://fic.ic.org/cmag/cmaglist.html

Intentional Communities Web Site: Home Page
Provides information and resources for seekers of community, including large directory, classified ads, Communities Magazine, Communities Directory, ...
www.ic.org/

see also: www.cohousing.org/

I lived at a neighboring community for years (in a tipi) and
there we helped publish Communities Magazine over 30 years ago.