We returned to Windsong this morning to continue articulating how we wish to make our village sing. Yesterday we chose the goals, activities, and places we wish to build our ecovillage from: today we hashed out the details of these places. The hot tub, sauna, barbecue, and children's play areas sound fantastic! For our outdoor eating terrace, we spoke of our desire to create a space that is very easy for serving food, but also beautiful and intimate, with interesting edges and nooks.
We had a pretty strong discussion about pathways: we want this village to be welcoming and accommodating for people in wheelchairs (and with scooters, bicycles, baby carriages, wheelbarrows, carts, etc...!), but we don't want to pave everything. The picture above is what the path looks like at Chuck's cohousing home. (Picture taken from his
blog, which is a very interesting read.)
We came to consensus that major pathways, such as as our current firelane, could be a five-foot wide paved surface meandering along a code-width engineered surface such as
Golpla or grasscrete (probably with something more similar to creeping thyme than to grass).
Imagine it replacing the gravel in the picture to the right:
The conversations about inviting gathering nodes and beautiful places are also very exciting. I already love living here, but wow...the future is going to be amazing!
We left Windsong at 2 and returned to Yarrow to walk about the site with Chuck, and we ended the evening with sushi in Britta's place and a conversation about
seniors' cohousing.
Tomorrow night is the big night: we will move little pieces of paper around on the site plan, seeing how we can fit all of our dreams in and how we can make them work in relationship to each other.
Expect even more concrete details soon!
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