Common House - Vasjunino

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Founding year

  • 2008

What we do

I am building the community that is close to nature and resembles a communal country-house. The culture of “summer country houses” is well developed in our country, but my view of this particular project is specific.
First of all I am going to run the community. I hope to find some good people – both families and individuals that will share the land, the buildings and some stuff on the place together. I expect these people to be free from such evils like smoking, alcoholism and drugs, and they will treat our environment with care and respect each other. I’d like to this community to develop into a shape of some cohousing ecovilage. I don’t insist if ones will permanently reside here; some may just come for a while (I am not going to live here), but one of the core rules lies in that the members should come and live here more than just for weekends and holidays. This is the strict rule; it practically restricts members from those leading “a common life”, that is regular working in the city 5 days per week. I don’t provide a pretty place for the rest between the work and “the necessary hard life”; the purpose is to reshape and to bring up life here on the place – both with work and holidays.
The membership is free for any charge; there is also the possibility to come as guest-volunteer (again, not for a weekends!).
At the moment there is a house and the land that I have bought. The place is 230 km to the east from Moscow in the low-populated wilderness area. It is the tiny village in the forest (most trees are pines). My place is very clean and nice. The closest inhabited village (with shops and a post-office) is 5 km through the forest. The house is old but quite appropriate for living all round-the-year. Right now I am living here alone, but ready to accept guests. There are possibilities to bye another house or lands legally of informal here; however I don’t see the necessity of any more expenses. There is no electricity here; I use the solar power to charge my phones and my notebook.
Advanced information about my project in Russian is published in the LJ-community common_house.livejournal.com

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2008
  • Started living together
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Non-working Guests welcome, Volunteers welcome,

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  • Russia

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12 years ago

Gaia Ashram Internship

The Pioneers of Gaia Ashram , 5th of July– 2nd of August 2015 The Gaia Ashram Internship is a one month program on Ecovillage Design, Permaculture and Deep Ecology. The internship will be a holistic participatory learning experience & process. Interns will experience being part of the Gaia Ashram Community and we will live together for one month at– Gaia Ashram-. At Gaia Ashram we belief in holistic learning that balances the head, hands & heart. Gaia Ashram encourages participatory learning & values the power of community in holding the learning space. We design the daily & weekly structure of the internship and of our lives here based on these values and principles. Theoretical learning (Head) The theoretical sessions will be participatory and interactive. It will cover the 4 keys of Ecovillage Design Education (Social, Economical, Ecological and Worldview inspired by Gaia Education). Each week will cover one of the Ecovillage Design Keys and integrated into this we will be introduced to Permaculture Design & Deep Ecology in terms of philosophy, movement and personal experiences. Overall, We will have a maximum of 2-3 hours of theory per day on the session days, to also create lots of space for practical experiential learning. See more details of the key content below. Practical learning (Hands – on) For the hands – on practical learning we will be developing the Gaia Ashram’s farm and restoring nature on the Gaia Ashram land using permaculture strategies & techniques that are appropriate for the Rainy Season & the land and its local context. The hands-on work will focus on Gardening work i.e. developing the vegetable gardens, planting seeds & seedlings, transplanting, propagation of plants, making composts, growing and maintaining a Food Forest, planting green manures, planting lots of trees, planting seasonal crops. Apart from the Gardening we will also will be doing some natural building which mostly will focus on creating natural finishes usi

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