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 back-to-the-landers were an amorphous bunch Read More »
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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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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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.
Hidden Shuswap valley was home to a European intentional community in the 1980s Read More »
Thousands of young people in North America moved to the country in the late 1960s and the 1970s, with some setting up intentional, cooperative communities,
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