$850 / 1br - Small yurt in community (Nevada City)

Cute unfurnished YURT with all-natural earthen floor and custom opening skylight. It’s a 16’ diameter/200 sq ft. Has a small kitchen with custom wood cabinets/countertop and small fridge, wood stove (the only heat source), and ethernet. Hand built front porch/awning adds outdoor covered space. Bathroom is a short walk to an ample community space along with a larger, shared kitchen (with many appliances). Land internet is 20Mbps down, 10 Mbps up. It’s available in and around the shared barn, as well as at certain homesites. $850 (for 1) some utilities included. There's an additional $250 for an additional person. We are full up on dogs, but would consider a cat. ABOUT OUR LITTLE VILLAGE: We share and care for a large patch of forest on Nisenan Ancestral Homelands ten minutes from downtown Nevada City—biking distance from town yet out on the edge of civilization and into the wild South Yuba canyon. We are currently five families (with five children, ages 1-10) and a handful of single adults. In part because of the rigor of our process for welcoming new villagers and our collective practices discussed below—along with, no doubt, a healthy dose of good fortune—we have so far succeeded in gathering a lovely group of humans while avoiding many of the pitfalls and drama that often come with intentional community life. We value proactively attending to relationships, open-mindedness and non-dogmatism, honoring Indigenous people and wisdom, more bikes/fewer cars, social and racial justice, reducing ecological impacts of being modern humans and having more fun. To care for our relationship with the land, we regularly come together for work days and have a commitment for everyone in the village to participate in a minimum of eight hours of land work per month. We typically do this work together on Sundays, and it’s one of our primary ways of enjoying each other's company while connecting more deeply to the land itself. We pride ourselves on learning how to be exceptional stewards of the forest, and many of our work days involve thinning brush and doing controlled burns. Others involve things like building and caring for community spaces, and most all involve an opportunity to learn, practice or share new skills. To care for our relationships with each other, we also come together in Council several times per year and ask that everyone participate. These are not meetings, per se, but rather a chance to speak and listen from the heart. Land work and council are vital parts of our commitment to reciprocity, groundedness, honesty and accountability, which we hold as values that strengthen our community. SHARED COMMUNITY AMENITIES Organic community garden, greenhouse and orchard Fully equipped community kitchen Wood-fired hot tub Year-round creek Many miles of private biking and hiking trails 1500 sq ft community movement/music/study/work space Fully equipped wood/metal/sewing shop Three shared electric bikes and bike shop Cob and brick pizza/bread oven Two community fire circles Shared laundry Shared campsites Chicken coop Electric sawmill and logging equipment Grid-tied solar power with battery backup Low cost storage facility Shared farm truck Plus some other secret ones! This place is best for those with homestead experience. If you are interested, please fill out *ALL* questions in Section 1 on this form (we will not respond until this is complete): https://forms.gle/JiDLWird3FRtHhCL6 If it seems like there’s a good potential fit after reviewing your responses, we’ll get in touch to set up an interview. We will ask for references.