Shuswap’s first intentional community
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 …
The back-to-the-landers were an amorphous bunch
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 …
The saga of the Dirty Dirt Farm Co-op
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 …
Kingfisher intentional communities in the 1970s
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 …
Hidden Shuswap valley was home to a European intentional community in the 1980s
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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