Communal living is an excellent choice for people who enjoy deep, intimate companionship with more than one person.  It is often very difficult to form and maintain a healthy, mutually satisfying and beneficial relationship with the random assortment of personalities that comprise a typical family.  An intentional community can be looked at as a "chosen family," in the respect that it is made up of people who came together intentionally based on "commonalties" other than biological (or adoptive) accident.  An intentional community differs from a family in the important respect that no one in an intentional community will ever legitimately feel "stuck" with it.  Thus, communal living can supply people whose conventional family relationships are dysfunctional or nonexistent with the best a family has to offer, a circle of connected, loving co-experiences with whom to share life.

There can be practical advantages to communal living.  Often, a member of an expense-sharing group can live more cheaply than a single person can.  People who live in group housing are freer to travel, as there are always going to be others about to water plants, take in the mail, pay the bills, keep company to those who stay behind, and so on. Most important, an intentional community is a social network. The chances are good that someone will usually be available to go out for lunch; to share a movie; to look over a final draft; to try the lunch seasoning; to listen to a cool idea; to join in on a magnificent undertaking; to take a walk in the sunset; to practice a sport or hobby; to fall in love with; to learn and to teach something to. 

Obviously, communal living can never be as private as a person’s own home.  However, parameters can be set to maximize the possibility that adequate privacy will be available for those who sometimes require it. People who need a lot of privacy probably do not belong in a communal setting.  People who thrive on human interaction probably do.
Communal living is a remarkably viable means for enriching our lives with interpersonal adventure and fun. As a group we have the resources, practical and personal, to actualize the very best of what we can imagine.  After all as a group we will know more than individually we could. The sharing and maximizing of resources will improve greatly our quality of life as well as healing our planet.

Instead of owning many of any one product, we will own less, but share a wider range of items.  Communal living can be a potent and powerful medium for free, creative, experimental, sustainable, ecological, and fulfilling way of life.  By pooling our money, creativity, skills, assets, ideas and resources; and thereby supplying our basic needs through communal energies, we find there are both an abundance of all things available to us all, and an optimization in the efficiency of their use.  For example, sharing the use of automobiles, and making a communal dinner each evening.  One car can serve numerous people, thus requiring fewer of them; and not only does everyone get a wholesome, nutritious meal each night, but they also only have to cook and cleanup once a month, or less, for example and then only as part of a team.

We believe that together we will achieve things we never, in our singularlives would have dreamed of - for example: operating large natural, shops, bakeries, production of tinctures, teas and organic herbs, writing and performing music-the possibilities are endless.