u/Agreeable_Lab_5358

Greetings!

My wife and I have been living in Costa Rica for the past three years. During that time, we have been actively visiting and participating with several intentional communities. This includes, PachaMama, Alegria, Shift Esperanza, and Rise. Of those four diverse communities we have chosen to join, and build our forever home at the Rise community in the southern mountain about an hour inland from the popular beach communities of Dominical and Uvita.

The developer of the Rise Community has been quietly working for almost ten years but the first residents moved in just over a year ago. At this point their are 10 completed homes, 10 under construction (including ours), and another dozen in the design and permitting stages. Even though it is still young, there is a vibrant community of families and adults with grown children, partly due to the presence of the Rise School, a Waldorf inspired school on the property. There are members from 21 countries with ages spanning from toddlers to several people in their 70's.

Let me know if you would like to know more.

Pura Vida.

Zev

We have a small food forest on our property in Costa Rica and yesterday the path system was completed with gravel designed to hold up during the very wet rainy season that is just now arriving.

https://reddit.com/link/1tyg53k/video/smp91v1xpn5h1/player

Simple living is a great idea but mny experience is that to be truly effective it also needs an element of connectedness as well. A simple life in a sustainable community can offer both options. This way you can create a simple life but take advantage of the skills, resources and connection offered by a supportive group of people cose by. Does anyone have that combination right now?

Enjoy this short story from the future about an innovative Waldorf school in Costa Rica.