What is an Agrihood? [podcast]
John Patrick and Diane chat with Ecogal about how they preserve farmland, create a neighborhood, and provide access to farmland for a new farmer. BV&F follows models of cohousing and agrihoods. They plan to practice sustainable principles for constructing and maintaining the property and the farm.
Loneliness Is on the Rise. Are Closer Neighbors a Solution? [video]
Loneliness is on the rise, and it may be as harmful to health as cigarette smoking, medical experts say. Now some Americans are embracing a collaborative living arrangement called cohousing as a solution.
Ten Lessons in Neighborliness from a Cohousing Community
"Emerge, connect, get your hands in the soil and your feet on the pedals of a bike. You can start by becoming an intentional, committed, and creative neighbor." Read more about what Courtney E. Martin has learned from ten years of living in an intentional community in Oakland, California.
CoHousing Houston Interview of BV&F Member Rebecca Selove [podcast]
Kelli Soika of the podcast CoHousing Houston visits with Rebecca Selove, a founding member of Burns Village & Farm. Rebecca speaks with Kelli about her introduction to cohousing as a concept, the last community she lived in called Blueberry Hill, and the roots and future of Burns Village and Farm.
Consensus 101: Basic Training in Consensus [video]
This one-hour video by Tim Hartnett is a very helpful orientation to the modified consensus decision-making process that BVF is using.
Best of Both Worlds Cohousing's Promise Trailer [video]
Short trailer to the full-length film introducing the concept of cohousing as expressed through first-hand observations of residents of four cohousing communities and observations by architect Charles Durrett, who brought the concept to the US from Denmark with Kathryn McCamant.
Cohousing offers opportunities for communal living [video]
MLive shared a brief introduction to cohousing in Michigan, where there are five cohousing communities as of 2023.