Minnesota Ecovillage Project

The Minnesota Ecovillage Project was founded to create a place for humans to thrive — to live ethical, sustainable, meaningful lives in harmony with one another and the natural world.
The ecovillage is located about 90 minutes north of the Twin Cities, on 66 acres of diverse Minnesota ecosystems: oak and maple forests, birch and aspen, tamarack bogs and duck ponds and a flowing river. We see ourselves not as owners or developers, but as stewards and caretakers of the land during our short time on Earth. We call our little village SOLIS after Sun, which we recognize (along with all other living organisms on Earth) as the source of our life, energy, and existential orientation.
Our community includes a small group of full-time residents, local neighbors and frequent visitors, and our animal friends who find sanctuary here (cats, dogs, chickens, and a herd of rescued horses). Through the work of our non-profit organization, we create spaces for education and expression for both children, teens, and adults. Our projects include community gardening and canning, construction and mechanics, foraging, meditation, chickens and horses, music, science, and art.
We believe humans are meant to live in shared community, as an antidote to the isolation and loneliness that characterize our society. We are creating a place where people of all ages can share in life together– share meals, share labor, share knowledge, share caretaking responsibilities, share crisis, share joy. We desire to weave a fabric of social support to create stability in times of both joy and crisis.
This village is a humble collective of people wishing to abandon economies of consumption, competition, and exploitation. It is a laboratory for experimentation in different ways of being human, a workshop for ecological ingenuity, a playground for creative expression, a retreat for the solace of green things, a dance party in the woods, a seed for a better world.