Google intentional communities.
I’m thinking you don’t understand how many acres it takes to feed a few people. I’d be scared shitless trying to feed my skinny family of 4 on a single acre, and that’s assuming a constant water supply.
OK, looked around a bit, yeah, we’d starve on 1 acre.
With an llc and enough contracts, sure. Have “investors” pay into some cooperative to buy land/startup, then everyone is somehow working for that co-op which pays for everything?
You can get wifi pretty cheap. A $40 router will get you wifi. You’ll also need an internet connection, however…
They exist in the world. They are not very popular, judging by the fact that you’ve not heard of them.
You need much more than 1 acre per person. First Google result is 5-6 per person.
A lot of people buy flour, rice, and oats (the cheap and hard to grow yourself grains) and grow the fancy stuff (nice fruits and veg, maybe inoculated mushroom logs) and maybe have some meat roaming in tractors like chickens, themselves. For that use case 0.5-1 acre can cover a person’s food needs easy if doing a smart permaculture type style. (Obviously monocultures take way more space per calorie).
I would recommend looking into aquaponics as well if space is a constraint.
But both take years to set up, and a good amount of labour. It isn’t just like having your vegetable garden you water on weekends.
Also, if in an arid region, the acerage requirements go up.
Usually in the US they call it a co-op instead of a commune, but yeah, things like that are already done.
You will need a lot more money, there is more to daily expenses than food and wifi. Also 1 acre is not enough for a sizeable group.
You absolutely can though. I know the preppers forum had one. You see it a lot more in Latin America these days, mostly retired expats and hippies (not trying to be derogatory). I find it’s kind of hard to ask people to put in all that effort though when they don’t get proper land rights. A commune doesnt offer a stable retirement other than trust me. I always imagine tension can run a lot higher than they should in these types of communities.
Yea 1acre will not grow shit for more than a few people to enjoy food from randomly.
yes it’s very likely to either get torn apart by interpersonal tensions such as infidelities or economic power struggles or just devolve into a new age cult of some kind, and usually some combination of all three from what I’ve seen of those kinds of communities.
If you really want help, you almost need to dox yourself by giving pretty specific location info. So please don’t do that.
Land matters are very complex in any country. In the USA, laws around land use can vary from one block to another. 50 states and many matters are delegated from each state to their counties for implementation.
My point is, yes, you may be able to arrange such a community.
It can be a tricky legal, political and social affair that is very specific to your exact site.
So plan on a huge learning curve and learning how to find the right kind of legal and organizational advice.
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The problem isn’t that it’s impossible, but that humans are so awful they simply can’t do something like this without infighting and bickering and blame.
A friend joined a group of people to build a co-op in a house about ten years ago. Shouldn’t be any different today.
Yeah
All it takes is people getting together and organizing to do a thing. Co-ops exist all over the place. Also plenty of cults have communes. Those kinds suck tho.
Yeah the kool-aid is terrible. I mean come on! How do you fuck up kool-aid?!
There are a few in my country and theyre filled with the craziest hippies
What?
In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high?
OH thank you I understand now. Unfortunately, no.
I can’t believe that worked.
Ikr!? Didn’t even have to shout!
