Hi!

Welcome!  Mid Atlantic Cohousing (MAC) is a consortium of built, building or forming cohousing communities from Pennsylvania to North Carolina.  Seeking to serve all who live, play or work in cohousing, our borders are permeable enough to include YOUR community!

Tour Takoma Village Cohousing Washington, DC
Sunday, 9.18.22, 2-4pm EDST

This tour of Takoma Village is LIVE and IN-PERSON!

And it's FREE!

2-4 pm EDST

Come learn about cohousing in general and life at Takoma Village in particular on our next quarterly tour on Sunday, September 18, 2022 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm.

Register via Meetup:  https://www.meetup.com/washington-dc-area-cohousing/events/287871245/

We'll provide a comprehensive introduction to Takoma Village, make time for Q&A, and show you our community's extensive common facilities. Light refreshments will be served.

Take the Metro exiting at TAKOMA (Red Line) station just 2 blocks from our community. Driving? Street parking is available on 4th Street or nearby. Or, use the Metro parking lot at the Takoma Station (Red Line).

If you think you'd like to live at Takoma Village, check out the Guide for Prospective Residents on our website:

https://www.takomavillage.org/page/39042~755756/guide-for-prospective-residents

Contact us to request a schedule of meetings, social events, and work days you can attend to learn more about us. 

welcome@takomavillage.org

And follow us on Facebook to get a glimpse of daily life here!

https://www.facebook.com/TakomaVillageCohousing/

COVID-19 safety measures
Our in-person tours are both indoors and outdoors. We want everyone to have fun and be safe. Masks and vaccinations required.
The event host is instituting the above safety measures for this event. Meetup is not responsible for ensuring, and will not independently verify, that these precautions are followed.

Register via Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/washington-dc-area-cohousing/events/287871245/

See you soon!

New MAC Communities

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MAC welcomed three new cohousing communities into our chapter!
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Chesapeake Acres 
Contact Sue  410-206-6724
chesacrescoho@gmail.com
 
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Cohousing of Greater Baltimore
Contact us: baltocoho@gmail.com
cohousingofgreaterbaltimore.org facebook.com/CohousingofGreaterBaltimore 
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Smart Neighborhoods of Alexandria
Contact: Charles Juris
cjuris@teameh.com 
571-269-4383 

More News on MAC Communities

These communities are looking to welcome you to your new cohousing community.  They either own or have a site optioned.  They are ready to build or have house sites or homes for sale:

Emerson Commons
emersoncommons.org  |  info@emersoncommons.org
Emerson Common, established in 2019, is a multigenerational cohousing community located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 15 minutes to Charlottesville — a small city with plenty of dining, music, cultural and employment opportunities — named America's happiest city by the US National Bureau of Economic Research.

We build relationships through neighborhood self-management, twice-weekly common meals, regular social events, and much front porch hanging out. Members range in age from two to 80, with a balanced distribution of ages and stages of life. Neighbors participate in community work, attending monthly plenary meetings and joining the department circles of their choice. 

Within walking distance from our neighborhood is a grocery store, brewery, and restaurants. Crozet has multiple parks with walking trails, playgrounds and lakes.

We currently have 19, mostly attached, homes with room for seven more. Visit emersoncommons.org for more information.
Juniper Hill Cohousing
We're building a multi-generational cohousing neighborhood in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley! Juniper Hill Commons is located in the small city of Harrisonburg, Virginia (population ~ 54,000) nicknamed "The Friendly City". It’s a great place to raise kids, with a dual language public school program available (half day taught in Spanish, half in English), the nationally acclaimed Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir, and the rockin’ Explore More Children’s museum.

We're an artsy, sustainably-minded, social-justice oriented, garden-growing, fun-loving group of mostly introverts. Even so, we're looking forward to common meals, fire-pit chats, art parties, movie watching, lego building, garden-growing and just chillin' on the front porches together.

We're looking for more kids and adults of all ages to join us as neighbors! Harrisonburg is a family-friendly university town with access to lots of nature- we love it here, and we think you will too! Breaking ground as soon as we have 24 households…
Liberty Village

Liberty Village is a group of unique individuals living in an ecological cohousing community near Frederick, Maryland. Our multigenerational community currently includes 22 kids, adults up to age 83, along with free-range chickens and our new addition - baby goats!

Cohousing is the radical idea that a group of people can design a neighborhood from the ground up with a village in mind.

Our privately owned homes are located on 8 acres with a multitude of common areas, parks, and pedestrian-only walkways, plus a Common House which is used for social activities, potlucks, and celebrations. All of this is enveloped by 15 acres of pristine natural meadows, woods, and wetlands to explore.

Want to know more about Liberty Village?

Use our CONTACT page on our website:

https://madmimi.com/signups/6511e496c17a4ca6b960ffec372c76b3/join

New Groups!

Are you considering building a cohousing community?  Trying to interest a developer in taking on your project?  Let us help you!  Check out the handbook and DVD produced by MAC targeted to developers showing them how to integrate cohousing into their housing mix.  Building Sustainable Communities for Today's Housing Market has detailed interviews and information from the top three cohousing developers in the US.  Order from us today!
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MAC Annual Bus Tour Participants
​Spring Clean Up Shepherd Village
Springtime Hundredfold Farm
Eastern Village Planning Meeting

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Mid Atlantic Cohousing is deeply involved in teaching the art of living in community.  We are committed to the profound work of creating a sustainable society, one neighborhood at a time.  In a world that often seems disparate, we take on the challenges of providing space and time that foster connection.  To this end we provide direct educational services to our member communities. We also educate and inform the public about cohousing.  Each year we provide an array of educational and informational events for member communities as well as those open to the public. 
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Hundredfold Farm -- Ortanna, PA

Hello!

Send an email to:  midatlantic@earthlink.net
​Call:  202.546.4654
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Blueberry Hill -- Vienna, VA