Heathcote Community is a medium sized intentional community located in rural Maryland, USA, about 30 miles north of Baltimore, Maryland. An intentional community is a planned Residential community designed to have a much higher degree of Teamwork than other communities The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
Heathcote, situated on a 44 acre community land trust next to a 68 acre plot owned by some of its members, had a total of about 20 adult and child members as of 2006. A community land trust is a property trust which aims to benefit the surrounding community by ensuring the long-term availability of affordable housing
The meals at Heathcote are organic and vegetarian. Organic foods are produced according to certain production standards, meaning they are grown without the use of conventional Pesticides artificial Fertilizers Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes Meat (including game and slaughter by-products Fish (including Shellfish and other sea The community also has a permaculture focus [1] and is currently being re-created as a permaculture demonstration site. The word permaculture, coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren during the 1970s is a Portmanteau of perma nent agri'
While Heathcote as a whole does not practice income-sharing, a group of its members have formed the Shantagani Income-Sharing Pod [2], and Shantagani is a Community in Dialog (CID) [3] of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC) [4]. Heathcote is a member of the School of Living Community Land Trust.
External links
- Main Heathcote website
- A film about Heathcote Community on Google Video. Google Video is a free video sharing website and also a video service from Google that allows anyone to upload Video Clips to Google's web
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