A bunch of bush workers pooling money to buy off-grid land in the Kootenays and build a place we own together — log homes, gardens, an orchard, a sauna, and a few hundred acres of cut-over forest we replant ourselves. A base to recover between seasons and, one day, retire to.
Who owns it — so it can never be taken
The land sits in a community land trust — owned in common, permanently. Two parts:
The trust (non-profit) holds the land forever. It can't be mortgaged, flipped, or foreclosed. No bank, no developer, no council.
A members' co-op is us — the co-op allocates each of us an occupancy of our cell (nobody owns the dirt), we govern the place ourselves, and hold a fair capped, inflation-indexed share plus our own cabins.
Why "capped"? So a thriving commons can't get sold off to the highest bidder in 20 years and price out the next generation of bush workers. It stays ours — a bush workers' place, for good. (A land trust caps land speculation, not your life — your work, your business, your cabin's value are yours.)
What you'd get
Your own log home (a 12×16 to start — expandable) on roughly 3 acres the co-op allocates you (occupancy, inheritable).
A real stake in the commons — the shared forest, sauna, orchard, lodge.
A share of land your own labour brings back to life — we replant the cut blocks ourselves.
The money — and why there's no bank
Small buy-in, and most of it you can put in as sweat instead of cash — we'd rather have your skills than your savings.
0% sponsorship: short on cash? A sponsor can front your buy-in at zero interest. More on that →
Once it's running, the cost to belong is roughly a long weekend's rent — per year.
We buy debt-free. No mortgage means nobody can ever foreclose what we build.
We start small — the first crew, this year — prove it works, then grow cohort by cohort, buying neighbouring land with cash as more of us join. Never on borrowed money.
The crew so far
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