Community Dinners

When our common house is complete in early 2012, we expect to have common dinners three or four times per week, with most families attending once or twice. The idea of coming home after work to go straight to a hot-cooked meal makes my heart sing!


Chuck Durrett tells us that his cohousing community has common dinners four nights a week: to make this happen, each adult needs to cook once every five weeks. This is lovely-sounding math to my ears.


It is exciting to dream about our common house, but we don't want to wait until the building is complete to begin living in this lovely way, so we've been having one community dinner every week since the beginning of this year. For now, we are alternating between the old farm house and one of the new duplex units, which can entail some serious chair transporting! It is nice to take this time together each week to relax over good food (or, in the case of last week, life-changing stupendous food! See the picture above of Joe with the wok he rebuilt to accommodate the cooking of enough Thai curry for all of us.)

Yum!