Anima Terram :: Communities Directory

Forming Formed: 2011

This page last updated:3/19/2012

Anima Terram

San Antonio/Austin, Texas

(Looking in area of Boerne, Comfort, Dripping Springs, Bergheim, Fredericksburg, TX hill country in general.)

We are currently doing due process on property just 8 minutes outside of Boerne, TX. It is smaller than originally envisioned, but looks very promising. Check out the website for updates as they come. First pics will arrive soon!!! Forming a community that is energy independent, water independent, and as food independent as possible. Looking for 10-20 families to unite into an ecologically responsible, caring, mutually respectful, and serving cottage industry village. Wow, thats a lot of catch phrases, but living life with the earth in a circle of life orientation. Where you know your community, and care for each other, and serve each other. Anima Terram means "the soul of the earth" in Latin. I want to be a part of a community with soul, on land with soulful origins, taking care of the land, and having the land take care back in return. Community, village, tribe are all terms that mean something more than a group of people living in the same subdivision. There is spirit in community, there is responsibility in village, and kinship in tribe. This idea is just forming, and it takes you to be a part of it. If you desire a wholesome, organic place to call HOME, please join the conversation. Nothing is in stone, ground has not been broken, and friendships have yet to be formed.

Website: http://www.AnimaTerram.com

Contact:

Billy Trip
San Antonio, Texas
Phone: 210-663-8337

This page last updated:3/19/2012

Visitor Process: Please contact me for more information in forming Anima Terram. This is early in the process and a time to have significant input into the origination of this intentional community.

Statement of Housing Non-discrimination:

Our community does not discriminate in regards to housing based on race/color, national origin, religion, sex/gender, family status (i.e. having children, not having children, or being pregnant), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, ancestry, source of income, age, creed, personal appearance, political affiliation, HIV infection, military/veteran status, unfavorable military discharge, gender identity or expression, receiving public assistance, or being the victim of domestic abuse.

Population

Open to new members:

Yes

Government

Decision Making:

By consensus

Land and Buildings

Rural

Cohousing:

Yes

Cohousing Details

Cohousing Status:

Forming

Become an Editor Current editor(s): wtrip

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Comment from rudirudenski on 5/28/2011 (Reader Rating: 0)

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I live in an urban co-housing living situation with artists, writers and musicians. It works because we are not there all of the time. We need each other but people who are not lovers grow allergic to one another fairly quickly and even lovers do so after too much togetherness.

If I were going to create an intentional community, I would hope it would be a place where we could have space to plant our gardens, bring our children during special celebrations, dance and sing together, do our art together but then come and go in waves... each of us leaving a part of ourselves with each passing wave. I am not saying this is the model you are seeking to achieve but if there are many members who come and go, it makes for an eclectic and more interesting life. At least this has been my experience.

I am honored to be in the co-housing situation I am in. My current co-housing location is in Corpus Christi but I am looking for a second co-housing home in the Hill Country.
Love and Joy,

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