Visiting or Joining the Barley Jar Intentional Community

Introduction

There are a variety of ways to visit the Barley Jar. You can come to one of our community events or stay as a guest resident to get the full experience!

Whichever way you decide to come, and especially if stay as a guest, you'll want to look at our Quick Orientation Guide.

Barley Jar Events

Events are generally open to anyone in our community. Our community is defined as anyone who hears about or is invited to our event by one of our members and anyone they know or meet and wish to invite to an event. If you are interested in coming to an event you can contact any member of the community and get invited or get put onto our mailing list and receive regular invitations from our members. Events include workshops, monthly potluck dinner and other parties and events set up by house or community members.

Barley Jar Guest Resident Program

Being a guest resident at the Barley Jar is a chance to live and learn together with us for a 1 month period. As a guest you will get to experience living and learning with us and it will give us an opportunity to to live and learn with you! This is an opportunity to get to know what it's like to live in an intentional community, in particular one with our intentions and traditions, living sustainably from both a social, physical, spiritual and environmental standpoint.

Those who are paying rent in another location are not asked to contribute to rent to make such a stay feasible. Guests are asked to contribute to other operational costs such as utilities and food. If guests are not paying rent elsewhere, they are expected to contribute financially in the same way others at the Barley Jar do. No preference will be given to those who are paying rent or not.

On our end, we really want to and intend to make being a guest with us a really full, enjoyable and inspiring experience.

For more information on how to become a guest resident, click here.