Hello,

I’m writing this as a mother poised to bring my land-based community into its next stage of life: one composed of multiple families so that the needs of children can be met.

Our daughter is ten months old. Her days are slow. She is carried often. She spends time outside every day. She knows many arms, many voices, many rhythms. Her needs are simple and consistent: closeness, touch, responsiveness, and care. Yet already, it’s clear that what she needs next is not more stuff or stimulation. She needs other children. She needs families who want to co-parent together.

Our family lives as part of a group of seven adults living remotely on the side of a mountain above the edge of a 27km lake. We live fully off grid, with spring fed water, gardens, and a heritage orchard. Our homes are simple and small. Many of us live in yurts, alongside other modest ecological dwellings, gathered around a shared commons.

Life here is physically demanding. We cut our own wood and in winter we haul water. The tasks of living remotely require both cooperation and care as our collective home is still forming and infrastructure ever evolving. We are relatively new to homesteading and learning as we go, tending to land that has a longer memory than we do. This is not polished or idyllic living. It is attentive, participatory, and honest. Our life is not an escape from responsibility, but a return to it.

We also take great joy in creating a life together on beautiful wild lands. Every evening we share dinner, taking the time to connect with one another. We prioritize maintaining healthy relationships, tending to them when there is rupture and deepening knowing of each other over time. This requires emotional maturity, communication, and a willingness to participate rather than consume. We are co-creating regenerative culture for ourselves and for future generations that grow up here.

As part of our collective home vision, we want to create a healthy children’s culture. For us that means child rearing is a responsibility held by the community not just by parents. Where play is free and mostly outdoors, and where dependence is understood as a healthy phase, not a problem to solve. Where children are held, fed, soothed, and also included in real life. They are surrounded by adults who know them well enough to read their cues. Discipline looks like guidance and repair, not punishment. Emotional expression is met with presence, not correction. Care is relational, not transactional.

Living closely, especially with children, asks something of everyone. Not everyone will feel at home here, and that is okay. Right now, we are specifically calling in families. Parents who feel the quiet grief of raising children without kin nearby. Parents who sense that something essential has been lost in modern child rearing and want to rebuild it slowly, in place, with others who are willing to share the weight and the joy. Families who have grit and want to live in connection with nature, in community.

If this stirs something in you, you’re welcome to reach out to start a conversation. We are looking for a family to try out living here as early as March 10th, 2026 in one of the yurts we have here on the land. A two week minimum stay would allow us to see if there is natural resonance and affinity.

With care,

Miranda, Kyle & Community