Community businesses
From ICWiki
Some communities form businesses as community ventures, with the intent of supporting their members. Others leave this up to individual community members to create (or not), and some "bedroom communities" specifically prohibit business operations within the community.
Among communities which seek community income, there are those who believe that a mark of a successful community is whether they can create one or more money-making enterprises adequate to support its members. Some communities rely in whole or in part on outside work for their income; some communitarians prefer to work within the community, feeling that it promotes community cohesion.
One of the Six defining characteristics of cohousing is No shared community economy, so generally, cohousing communities do not have businesses owned/operated by the community as a whole.
Examples of community businesses
- Everything Goes: Thrift and vintage stores of Ganas Community
- East Wind Nut Butters
- Heart of Now: Personal growth workshops at Lost Valley Educational Center
- Milkweed Mercantile: Bed and Breakfast at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
- Red Moon Herbs at Earthaven
- Sandhill Farm's condiments: sorghum, honey, mustard
- Skyhouse Consulting: web hosting and design (including this site)
- Southern Exposure Seed Exchange: Acorn Community
- Twin Oaks Community Foods: Tofu, tempeh, and other soy products
- Twin Oaks Community Herbs: herbal plants and herb workshops
- Twin Oaks Hammocks: rope furniture
- Twin Oaks Indexing Collective: Back-of-book indexing
- Utopian Rope Sandals: East Wind Community
- We'Moon Calendars at We'Moon Land
- Wordsworth Typing and Transcription Services: Meadowdance Community
See also
- Cohousing consultants. Some of these are current or former intentional community members.
- Process consultants. As above
