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!
Beep! Beep! Zoom! Zoom! Mid-Atlantic Cohousing's No Bus-Bus Tour
It's Mid Atlantic Cohousing’s … hot!… hot!… FREE — so it's always sold out -- NO BUS-BUS TOUR! In keeping with CohoUS's National Cohousing Open House Days, Saturday & Sunday, May 6 & 7, 2023, MAC is bringing back its very popular VIRTUAL bus tour: Saturday May 6 4:00-5:30pm, EDST via ZOOM. In REAL time from the comfort of your home or playground! How do you get a seat? Sign up via Meetup. Register via Zoom. From Meetup site, get the link to register via Zoom. Saturday, May 6 we will visit 4 coho communities in our Mid Atlantic region: Takoma Village, Washington, DC. Move in started November 2000 and completed in March 2001. The FIRST coho community completed in the region. **Developer driven,**this community was completed in 29 months. What's it like to work with a developer? Altair Cohousing, Kimberton, PA. Meet a soon-to-be cohousing community that's an Ecovillage, too! Construction may start in 2024! Cohousing of Greater Baltimore. This newly forming group will be the FIRST Senior Cohousing community in Maryland. Talk to the Burning Souls making this happen. Creating your own group? Share experiences, learn from each other! Blueberry Hill, Vienna VA. Completed in 2001. This community saved an Organic Farm! Resident driven, they used a professional architect and other professionals to help them finish the project. The architect and family ended up living there, too! MAC's Virtual NO BUS BUS TOUR is one of many, many offerings/activities by coho communities -- virtual and in-person -- being offered throughout the US and beyond on this very cool weekend. The event is organized and sponsored by CohoUS. Group and communities participating on this weekend offer an array of cohousing communities in all stages of development. Something for everyone. WHY THIS NO-BUS BUS TOUR IS OF INTEREST TO YOU Hands down, in 90 minutes, this is the fastest way for an overview of multiple communities in all stages of development from approaching construction to communities "happily ever aftering" together for 20+ years. Plenty of time for Q&A. Join us! Click on the bus! 
New MAC Communities
MAC welcomed three new cohousing communities into our chapter!
Chesapeake Acres Contact Sue 410-206-6724 chesacrescoho@gmail.com 
Cohousing of Greater Baltimore
Contact us: baltocoho@gmail.com cohousingofgreaterbaltimore.org facebook.com/CohousingofGreaterBaltimore 
More News on MAC CommunitiesThese 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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Hundredfold Farm -- Ortanna, PA
Hello!
Send an email to: midatlantic@earthlink.net
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Blueberry Hill -- Vienna, VA
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