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Jul 20 2021July 20, 2021

Shuswap’s first intentional community

History, Shuswap

There are few low elevation parcels of private land in the Shuswap that are as inhospitable as the north end of Adams Lake, where winters …

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Jul 20 2021July 20, 2021

The back-to-the-landers were an amorphous bunch

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Terry Allan Simmons is known for many of his achievements, including organizing the British Columbia chapter of the Sierra Club, helping to organize the “Don’t …

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Jun 17 2021June 17, 2021

The saga of the Dirty Dirt Farm Co-op

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Out of all the Shuswap intensive community experiments in the 1970s, the Dirty Dirt Farm Co-op was likely one of the briefest. It began when …

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May 26 2021May 29, 2021

Kingfisher intentional communities in the 1970s

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Located twenty-five kilometres east of Enderby along the Shuswap River is Kingfisher, home to one of the most spirited communities in our region. On the …

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May 12 2021May 27, 2021

Hidden Shuswap valley was home to a European intentional community in the 1980s

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In the early 1970s, Norbert Maertens, a computer engineer from Belgium, travelled the world for business and developed an interest in intentional, ecologically based communities. …

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