Skyhouse Community is a small, rural intentional community. Its purpose is to create and maintain an intentional community of people who shall live together according to certain ideals and precepts to which they have agreed, as described in Article 8 of the Articles of Incorporation. Currently, we are renting housing but our plan is to build our own dwelling on land leased from a local land trust. We support ourselves through home-based cottage industries which involve the whole group. These include the growing and selling of farm products, the production of organic, value-added farm products such as gourmet dog biscuits and tempeh, the holding of childbirth education classes, Internet consulting and the like.
All money earned by members' efforts goes in to that treasury.
We share the labor devoted to maintaining the community as well as childcare and domestic chores. We are always trying to learn to live together more closely, openly, and harmoniously, furthering our commitments to each other and the group. When an individual joins the community, that member is not required or expected to relinquish ownership of any property to the group. However, the group does reserve the right to limit the use of private property. It is expected that members will generally make possessions such as tools, vehicles, cooking utensils, and literature available for group use, but there is no requirement that they do so.