We hold a variety of income sharing, cost sharing and profit sharing agreements, based on circumstance and individual need. Our goal is to equalize labor and effort, maintain motivation for efficiency and value, provide for those with varying levels of ability, encourage growth, and share in our abundance. Attitude, intention, and attention are highly considered, but so are results. We try to understand the pitfalls of both capitalism and socialism, and create a human-centered system for meeting our needs, feeling reciprocity, and encouraging achievement.
This being said, we are trying to reduce our need for "money" as we make a lot of what we need on our own or by trading labor with the other local communities. For example, we generate our own energy with our off-grid systems, we build our own infrastructure and furniture, we grow a ton of food and preserve the abundance, we chop our firewood, we butcher deer that the neighboring hunters don't want, we ferment foods like sauerkraut and kombucha, save seeds, and plant fruit and nut trees. We can sew clothes and repair tools. In this way, we reduce our need for money.
Our main income areas currently include:
Farming with Commonwealth Seed Growers
Custom made tiny houses
Our education center, Rustling Roots
Hosting Airbnb
Hosting Hipcamp
Personal off-site or part-time online jobs
This being said, we are trying to reduce our need for "money" as we make a lot of what we need on our own or by trading labor with the other local communities. For example, we generate our own energy with our off-grid systems, we build our own infrastructure and furniture, we grow a ton of food and preserve the abundance, we chop our firewood, we butcher deer that the neighboring hunters don't want, we ferment foods like sauerkraut and kombucha, save seeds, and plant fruit and nut trees. We can sew clothes and repair tools. In this way, we reduce our need for money.
Our main income areas currently include:
Farming with Commonwealth Seed Growers
Custom made tiny houses
Our education center, Rustling Roots
Hosting Airbnb
Hosting Hipcamp
Personal off-site or part-time online jobs
Neighboring Communities for the Local Currency: We work at our neighboring income-sharing communities for labor exchange hours.