Backyard Neighborhoods
- Fellowship for Intentional Community
- Near San Francisco
- In San Francisco
- In California
Mission: The goal of this group is to connect people in any city or town who want to share all or parts of their backyards to create large, shared spaces, where children can play and learn together spontaneously and neighbors can easily get to know each other, share things, and do things together.
From www.ic.org/directory/backyard-neighborhoods/:
The goal of this group is to connect people in any city or town who want to share all or parts of their backyards to create large, shared spaces, where children can play and learn together spontaneously and neighbors can easily get to know each other, share things, and do things together.
Some may just want to share portions of their backyards and nothing else. Others may want to share a few more things, such as tools and outdoor toys, and perhaps share occasional meals outdoors. And some may want to develop into retrofitting cohousing communities with some shared indoor facilities like N Street Cohousing in Davis, California, where fences have gradually been removed from the backyards of 19 houses. Those that focus on permaculture and sustainability might even become urban ecovillages.
Families who practice home and community education (such as unschooling) might be especially interested in sharing backyards and some indoor facilities. Some families might want to pool resources to set up a laboratory or music room, for example, or share other educational resources.
If you own or rent a home with a backyard and would like to have neighbors who want to remove or change fences and share parts of their backyards (or if you already have shared backyard space and want to notify interested people when a home on your block becomes available for sale or rent), please see the "Blocks with Potential" page at BackyardNeighborhoods.org.
And if you would like to buy or rent a home on a block where there are residents who want to share parts of their backyards, you can contact us to be added to an announcement list. Please be specific about which area(s) you are interested in, such as a city, region, state, or country. Whenever someone tells us about property for sale or rent in a block where a resident wants to share backyard space, we will make an announcement to the people who are interested in that area.
Also, please contact us if you hear of two or more houses next to each other for sale or rent at the same time, on any block. We will then contact the people who are interested in that area.
The founders of this group live in San Francisco, but we also want to help create backyard neighborhoods in other areas.
We will never sell or rent any email address, and we won't give your email address to anyone except a person or group you ask us to give it to (for example, you might want to have your email address given to other people who would like to share backyards in particular areas).
- Address
- Physical Address
- San Francisco, California
- United States