By now we are all familiar with the narrative about how the COVID pandemic has changed how we work. There have been hundreds of articles written about why working from home is amazing, or why working from is terrible (spoilers: I’m a big fan of working from home). There is also debate about what the …
Sunnyside Cooks! I’m dreaming I have my apron on and I’ve just finished a double pie crust using 100% butter (recipe to follow), and I head out the door to the apple orchard a few minutes walk from my cottage and begin picking apples. I toss 6 apples from several different trees into my apron. …
So many exciting cohousing communities! How does a seeker decide which one is best? The Short Version: Can you afford it? Is it located in an acceptable geographic location? Is the urban vs rural location right for you? Is their timeline compatible with yours (not perfect but acceptable)? Do they have a mission, vision and/or …
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Do you want to hear our reasons for choosing Sunnyside Village Cohousing, above all the other possible cohousing communities. You can learn a little more about us too… Miriam (Equity Member): I’ve been thinking a lot about this – Sunnyside is the “goldilocks” spot – not too big but not too small, not too urban …
Caregiving VS Being NeighborlyMembers at Sunnyside look forward to the day we can come together for community meals, celebrations, game night, movie night, working in the gardens, tending the chickens, cookie contests and other fun activities. Yet, recently a topic came up at a happy hour that wasn’t so happy. It went something like this: …
How and why something gets started can have ripple effects on it throughout it’s life time. So, once upon a time… July, 2014, Dean Smith and I were just finishing a trip of a lifetime: traveling up the Rhine river on a riverboat cruise. It was memorable! As planned, we took a short flight to Berlin, …
August 2020Jennie LindbergSunnyside Village Cohousingsunnysidevillagecohousing.comFacebook Sunnyside Village Cohousing Who could have predicted a pandemic, right? I mean, we all know that unexpected things will come up when you are working on a project as big as a cohousing community, but a pandemic? How on earth do you do any marketing when you can’t meet with …
There are many wonderful cohousing communities already in existence across the US, intoCanada and Mexico. Joining an existing community, if there was an opening, would be easy andit would be clear what one was joining. Given all this, why would an individual or family chooseto join a forming community that had not yet been built?My …
