Sharing fruit, especially large types such as the jacks, has always been a social situation and a form of entertainment. We share meals the entire community usually attends, sometimes potluck style, once every week or two. Recently we've gotten into vegan sushi and are getting exceedingly creative with the dipping sauces. Co-owners who haven't yet built their own homes live in communal platforms and share the community kitchen. They often share meals with the guests and volunteers who sleep in similar accommodations and also use this kitchen.
Vehicles, Tools, and Structures
Tools, vehicles, food — held in common.
One of the obvious advantages of living in a community is the ability to share resources. We do this with vehicles and transportation, tools, and of course food. Although we've never had an official community car, whoever happens to own a vehicle at any given time always ends up helping others who don't. There is no simple way to share expenses, but more often than not everyone has been satisfied with the collective results. As for tools, co-owners with homes and gardens always have some of their own. But most tools on the property are collectively owned, shared, and stored in our bodega. A community kitchen, a lounge space with cushions and pillows that adjoins it, five open-air raised platforms with roofs, partial walls, and mosquito netting, plus our extremely scenic yoga platform are structures we share.
