Intentional Communities - A Project of the FIC
Register or Login
UsernamePassword
  View Your Shopping Cart 
Directory Home | Community List: by State/Country, Type, Newest | Maps | Add Your Community | Order the Book | Find a Community:
 
Forming Formed: 1994 Established: 1999
Rosneath Farm
Dunsborough, Western Australia,
Australia
 As at 24 September 2007, Our ecovillage project is under threat. Unless we can find a "hairy godfather" to pay our ongoing legal bills, we will within the next few weeks be forced into signing away our rights to an ecovillage. After over five years and over one million dollars defending ourselves from lawyers, we have run out of financial and emotional resources. Our dream of intensive, organic, permaculture-guided, autonomous microenterprises, mixed with 70 residences, tourism and intensive farming will be converted to very conventional development.
For the designers, their 30 year dream has turned into a nightmare. For the proprietors, it is heart-breaking. For the 27 sets of potential proprietors, the death of Rosnaeth farm is the shattering of their vision. We hold 27 conditional offers worth %5.5m, making the possible financial rescue very rewarding financially for anyone who can help.
We have tried everything we can to raise finance, to negotiate a settlement that allows the ecovillage to reach its wonderful potential, but have not found enough support.
So we are now throwing our net wider.
If you can help with finance in the very short term, please check out the web-site to satsfy yourself that we are very thoughtful and committed people.
Then contact us as soon as you can, for much much more detail.
Thanks
Warwick Rowell
  Status: UNDER THREAT
Website: http://www.rosneath.com.au/
Contact:
Rosneath Farm
Locked Bag 250
Dunsborough, Western Australia 6281 Australia
Phone: +61-(0)4-1231-8385
Send an Email
Last Updated:9/23/2007
 
Visitors Accepted
 (by appointment)
Visitor Process: check web-site, email or phone
Network Affiliations:
GEN - Global Ecovillage Network
Population
Adult Members:
15
(another 40 off site)
Child Members:
6
(another 20 off site)
Non-member Residents:
4
(wwoofers, guests)
Open to new adults:
Yes
(Do course on by-laws, intro to PC)
Open to new children:
Yes
(yes; that is why we do it!)
Gender Balance:
50% M 50% F
Age Focus:
No Focus
Age Restrictions:
No
Government
Decision Making:
Other
(Strata Title Act has 6 levels in law, we add one layer of committees)
Identified Leader:
Yes
(Only for a little while, if we let him)
Leadership Core Group:
Yes
(Yes, spreading as we grow)
Labor and Money
Financial Style:
Other
(Circulate money as much as possible)
Labor Contribution:
(LETS credits for mtgs, farm work)
Join Fee:
Yes
(Est min $500,000 to buy lot and build house. coho options cheaper)
Regular Fees:
Yes
(strata title levies through AGM and budget)
Land and Buildings
Small Town
(4 kms Dunsborough, 4 kms Yallingup)
Area:
365 acres (147.7 hectares)
Land Owned By:
The community
Number of Residences:
71
Cohousing:
Yes
(shared facilities, and coho for seniors)
Food, etc.
Percentage of Food Grown:
over 50%
(Need more people to grow things)
Share Community Meals:
1-3 times/month
(very casual, mostly, but three or four pa)
Dietary Choice or Restrictions:
Diet is up to each individual
(grow organic, biodyn or PC food)
Dietary Practice:
Omnivorous
Alcohol Use:
Used occasionally
Tobacco Use:
Used Occasionally
(discouraged)
Social Factors
Open to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and/or Transgender members:
Yes
(sexual orientation your private business)
Shared Spiritual Path:
Yes
(PC ethics; living buddhism)
Which Spiritual Path(s):
Ecumenical (includes "all religions")
(and Eclectic' again your spiritual journey is your business)
Educational Style(s):
(All options, more to on site as we grow)
Cohousing Details
Cohousing Status:
Building
(4 or 5 units, for singles and seniors)
Year Completed:
2005
(serious planning)
Number of Units:
2
Square Feet in Common House:
400
(5 units about 9mx 9m)
Architect:
participants, with pattern language
Developer:
private
Commercial Lender:
Developer
 
 
Click an image to see it full size.


Become an Editor Current editor(s): warwickrowell, rosneathfarm
Comments from Directory Readers This community selects which reader comments to display (more info). You can add yours below.
There are no Reader Comments on this community.

Add Your Comment on Rosneath Farm

We encourage comments from those who have first hand experience with a community so that others may benefit from your experience. Please share information you think will be useful to other users of this site, in a clear, concise, and polite manner. Each community can choose to display all comments, display selected comments, or not to display comments (more info). Communities will be shown email addresses of those who comment so that they might communicate with you if they choose.

We reserve the right to edit or delete any comment.

You must be logged in to add a comment. Login here or if you have not yet registered on our site Register here.

More Info on Display Options
Communities can choose one of three options for how reader comments are displayed.
  1. Display all reader comments.
  2. Do not display any reader comments.
  3. Display only comments selected by the community (this is the default value).
Communities may have a variety of reasons for choosing these options so we encourage you to not be quick to judge.