Bowden House Community

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • English
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2005

What we do

We are a group of families and individuals developing conscious, authentic and eco-mindful living. We enjoy a culture of singing, meditating, working, gardening, celebrating and learning together, as well as hosting events for the wider community.
Some things that inspire us:
• Developing our resonance with each other and our surroundings.
• Singing together.
• Authentic communication.
• Coming together to share our feelings and challenges, and resolve any conflict.
• Living in a beautiful place in touch with the spirit of the land.
• Growing some of our food.
• Developing skills for sustainable living.
• The alchemy of doing things together.
• What we discover through our journey together and how this helps us to grow.
• Respect for individual spirituality and different approaches to life.
We inhabit about 10 acres of land and buildings in the rolling green hills of Devon UK just outside Totnes the founding town of the Transition Network. There are around 35 adults and 15 children living in separate private homes and sharing our land and lives. At the centre of the community is a large Manor house splitt into 4 households including a communal home. The surrounding buildings: Coach House and Well House have been converted to provide 13 homes plus there are 2 existing cottages creating 19 homes in all.
We have around 3 acres of orchard and vegetable gardens including 2 polytunnels. We have replanted around an acre of woodland and have large lawns and gardens. We share a community building where we have our shared meals, social events, film club, daily meditation and weekly meetings. Other facilities include a workshop, tree house, and the Angel Hall a grand room in the manor house that we use for our singing together and invite others to use for workshops and events.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • English
  • Community type
  • Cohousing
  • Coliving
  • Ecovillage

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2005
  • Started living together
  • Not open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
35

How to join

Contact us by email in**@************co.uk to arrange a visit and take part in one of our community action days

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  • United Kingdom

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1 month ago

Social Media Intern

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Social Media Intern for GEN International Hours: Up to 20/month, flexible around your schedule and availability Location: Remote, work with Eva Goldfarb Focus: Instagram + LinkedIn (TikTok if you’re into it!) Hi! I’m Eva, and I run social media for GEN International — the global network connecting ecovillages, intentional communities, and regenerative culture-builders across every continent. I’m looking for a co-conspirator to help me tell the stories of the people quietly building the future: off-grid villages in the Philippines, permaculture farms in Senegal, urban cohousing projects in Berlin, elders passing down land wisdom in the Andes. It’s a wildly rich, wildly underrepresented world, and I want more people to fall in love with it the way I have. What you’ll actually do: Dream up and create content for Instagram and LinkedIn (reels, carousels, stories, captions that don’t sound like a corporate newsletter) Dig into our global network and turn your findings into stories people want to share Pitch your own ideas. If there’s a series, a theme, a format, or a corner of the network that lights you up, that’s what I want you to focus on. What we’re looking for: A natural storyteller, someone who can spot the human thread in a project update or a photo from a faraway village Genuinely curious about ecovillages, sustainability, intentional community, regenerative living Self-motivated and communicative; this is a flexible, trust-based role Why this role: This isn’t a “post 3x a week and don’t ask questions” internship. You’ll have real creative freedom to work on what excites you, learn how a global grassroots network tells its story, and build a portfolio full of meaningful, purpose-driven content. Plus you’ll be talking to people living some of the most interesting, intentional lives on the planet. If storytelling for a better world sounds like your kind of fun, let’s talk.
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13 years ago

ZEGG Summer Camp

The desire to experience a lively, loving connection with others leads many people to live in community. So ‘clan’ here is a symbol of the family we choose for ourselves and the idea that unique individuals can join together to form one lively, living organism.In order to see what that can look like in practice, this year’s Summer Camp is dedicated to the following research questions: What conditions are needed for love and liveliness to arise? Are ‘clans’ a possible form for that? And is all of that just a nice utopian idea? … let’s find out! ZEGG Summer Camp 2015 … is a practical 11-day experiment for those seeking a life to match their dreams – whether personal or social. Supported by teams from ZEGG, “clan groups” of 20-30 people will meet daily to share, conduct ZEGG Forum and explore specific issues in more depth. Events in the Big Top, joint rituals and parties will bring the whole camp together again. An important role will also be played by lectures and workshops by external speakers and those from ZEGG. Open Space sessions will offer guests the opportunity to contribute their own skills and abilities, set off on their own journeys of exploration, and encounter each other. There will also be special groups for children and youth. External speakers Manitonquat (or Medicine Story) is an Elder of the North American Assonet Wampanoag, a storyteller, peer counselling teacher, author and “circle culture activist”. circleway.org Charles Eisenstein from the USA is a cultural philosopher and author, public speaker and independent teacher. He is regarded as an important spiritual thinker for the Occupy and ‘gift economy’ movements. charleseisenstein.net Gerald Hüther is a professor of neurobiology and author of sev

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