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- If you would like to come for a visit please read both the Visitors and
- Overview pages, these will answer most of your questions.
- Visitor Categories
- Short term visitor less than a month.
- Seasonal visitor 3 to 6 months
- Long Term Visitor 6 month or more
- Work Trade (minimum 3 months)
- Just passing through and would like a tour.
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Coming just for the day?
- You must write a letter, send an email or call ahead of time to make sure we
know you are coming! A donation
of $10 to $20. (sliding scale) is asked for a tour
as this takes time and energy away
from whatever we are doing. -
- Look over the Wind Spirit website to see if you are a liked minded soul.
- Send us an email or letter telling us a little about yourself and include information listed below.
- How we can contact you, email, address or phone number
- Your interests and skills
- Have you lived or spent time in community environments, (communities, shared housing etc)
- Any questions you have about our community
- Are you looking for a place to relax as opposed to working (see costs below)
- Proposed dates of how long you would like to stay (see more details below)
- Are you visiting communities with the intention of moving to one full time.
- Would you like to rent a dwelling.. Would you like a camping space.
- Daily or weekly visitors - contribution $7. to $25 per day sliding scale. We ask a $50.deposit upon arrival for weekly and monthly visitors.
- Monthly visitors - $125.00 per month This is paid upon arrival and due at the beginning of each month. If you decide to leave early you will get a refund based on the time you spent here. The community dues include satellite internet access, fruit and vegetables from the land as well as some community foods, use of sauna, showers, kitchen and hands on experience working with community members. Sitting in on meetings and experiencing our community. If you are a seasonal or longer visitor and help with the work and organization you can sit in on most workshops/retreats free or for a small donation.
- If you are looking for just a relaxing retreat and no work this can be arranged starting at $350. per month. You are still responsible for cleaning up after yourself in the kitchen, baths and composting toilets. Contact us for more details.
- Dwelling availability -call or email - (small domes, RV's and old buses).
- There is a charge for heat in the winter, (summer the heat is free) if you use a space with a woodstove there is no charge other than you must do your share of wood harvesting.
- Work exchange is a minimum of 30 hours a week.
- Work exchange is for people low on funds and 25 or under , please do not apply if you can afford to pay monthly community dues.
- You cannot come here with no money, there are various personal expenses that come up.
- If you are not a motivated worker do not apply for work exchange. If you have to be reminded several times to keep up your work exchange hours the work exchange program will be given to someone else.
- No work exchange shorter than a 3 month period.
- We are willing to do a partial worktrade fee arrangement for shorter periods.
- Any work exchange can be terminated with 2 weeks notice.
- If you are skilled in building, electrical or plumbing let us know and we can tailor an exchange.
- You want to live in a community
- You are truly interested and want experience living in a community setting
- You realize there must be a fundamental change in the way people live (this is one option)
- You want to learn basic skills such as gardening, building, electrical, plumbing, solar ........
- You want to empower/help people working toward a positive future
- Click the link below to download and view our
- This will give you more detail about visiting.
- Visitors need to have permission from a community member to visit Windspirit. This can involve having contact with us through e-mail, a letter, or a phone call before coming to visit. Drop in visitors may not be welcome.
- If a visitor is staying for less
than a week then they do not need to go through an approval process.
a) A stay of a week or longer requires all visitors to go through an approval process. This process involves going to a weekly meeting and discussing with the community your intentions, what you have to offer the community, what we can offer you, how long you plan to stay, and what needs you have. This is a chance for both parties to ask questions of each other and get to know each other better. A very informal process. - We have a varied amount of community work projects, other days work is done individually or small groups. Windspirit is not a commercial organic farm and we do not want our community to act as a work camp, but we also have many tasks that need doing. We ask that people contribute to the work projects and also find other areas of the community that they can contribute to inspire one's self.
- Anyone who stays at the community and uses community spaces such as the kitchen, bathhouse, and community room, must be willing to take a turn in cleaning these spaces, this is not optional. We ask that everyone take one day a week in cleaning these rooms. Basic cleaning and doing dishes after using the community kitchen is a must! Overall we try to make the work fun and often work together. We hope that work projects can help individuals learn new skills and our usually guided under a project manager.
- At least 15 hours of Community service per week is asked of visitors. These hours can be part of work parties or individuals projects. Work trade is 25 hours.
- We can only let so many vehicle-less people come here, we are rural and transportation is necessary. It is not fair to put the burden on one or two people for all rides, food pickups etc.
- Visitors need to get permission from the community council to invite other visitors or their own personal guests.
- Visitors may not use Windspirit Community's address as a permanent mailing address, registering their vehicle, or other uses without community council approval. Of course you can receive mail.
- Some come here with expectations that our community buildings/infrastructure are just like what they have seen in $250k a unit co-housing communities , you will be disappointed if that is your expectation.
- We have good relations with our neighbors and ask that visitors not get involved in any conflict with them. If there becomes a problem please let the community know immediately.
- Upon
arrival you will meet with a designated person to:
(Please follow these
instructions upon arrival.)
- Sign in
- Pay your visitor fee and/or deposit.
- Be assigned a tent space or rental.
- Be given a tour.
- Be given a Visitor Manual which you agree to read completely the first week and sign a statement that you agree to live by the community guidelines while here. We encourage everyone to also integrate The Co-Creators Agreements while here.
- Internet
- We use WildBlue satellite service for our internet access. All satellite companies have a FAP (Fair Access Policy). This limits the amount of bandwidth we can use every month, so streaming audio or video, downloading lots of music, watching YouTube and other high bandwidth sites is very limited. If you like to surf the internet for hours everyday that will not work here!
- Greyhound Bus no longer services Globe (not cost effective) There is no public transportation to this area anymore.
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In
every organization there are rules, what you can
and cannot do, and they seem to increase every
year as someone comes up with something we never
thought of. If only we could live with complete integrity, we would not need
all the Do's & Don'ts.
Reading, contemplating and integrating
The Co-Creators Agreements into
your life is an empowering way of doing this. Please read.
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If you would like to schedule a visit please follow these steps
Please be considerate of our time, if you are not fairly certain you are going to come here, all the emails and phone calls take a lot of our time....... Please be patient for return of emails and phone calls.
Work Exchange At this time work exchange is limited to 2 positions in any season.
Good reasons to come here.
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GENERAL INFORMATION FOR VISITING
Weapons
a) No visitors, interns, or guests are allowed to carry
firearms or other dangerous offensive weapons (crossbows, swords etc.) while
walking around the community. If you have weapons please let a member know
and keep them locked up while here.
Addictions and Psychological
Problems !
Windspirit Community expresses as much compassion as possible for individuals
who have psychological problems. We can only take visitors and community members who are
emotionally coherent, reachable, honest about healing themselves and what issues
they need to resolve, and those who can participate within the community in a
healthy way.
Dealing with Habitual Guideline
Offenders
Theft and violence will not be tolerated! Dealing with habitual guideline
offenders is on
a case-by-case basis. Periods of probation may be imposed. Repeated
cases of defiant disrespect of the bylaws or
general codes, guest, or visitor will be expelled from the community.
Community Consumption Guidelines
a) We are primarily a vegetarian
community! Other diets can be accommodated but there is no cooking of fish,
beef or fowl in the community kitchen.
b) Tobacco smoking is permitted
at the community. No smoking in the community buildings or while walking the
paths. Please be conscious of how annoying it can be to nonsmokers.
c) Alcohol use
is permitted, excessive use is not acceptable. If you have
a problem with addiction then please let community members know and we can
support you in abstaining.
Pets and Animals
a)
We are not overly enthused to have lots of dogs here, they usually wreck
havoc with the local wildlife. Dogs that continually bark are not welcome! Dogs who are aggressive toward other dogs must be restrained. We
have a lot of wildlife here and do not want dogs that will continually chase
after, rabbits, deer, skunks, etc or cats. Well behaved (trained) dogs are
welcome.
Parking
a) Please do not park out on the road except
for loading/unloading of passengers or supplies.
c) We encourage the use of shared vehicles to do our part in cutting
down on pollution.
d) Visitors or guests are not permitted to bring
towed/broken down vehicles to the land.
Items you should
bring with you (Sorry if some of this seems repetitive)
1. Your own bedding, towels, toiletry items
2. Summer and winter clothing. Be prepared for hot and cold weather.
3. A 20 degree sleeping bag and bed pad.
4. An extra blanket for warmer
nights.
5. Light rain gear, not a big issue in the desert.
6. A water bottle or two.
7. A good attitude.
8. A good solid
flashlight with extra batteries, we prefer rechargeable batteries
9. Solid shoes and sandals!
10.A sun hat or sun glasses if needed.
11.We have laundry facilities on the land, see bio list.
12. Biocompatible shampoo and soap - Dr. Bonners soap
and Aubrey's shampoo are the best.
13. Please bring enough money for you to be comfortable with your own spending
habits.
14. You will need to some of your own food, our food supplies varies
& are not guaranteed.
15. RV, truck and car camping also.
Optional stuff - A car will give you more freedom and less dependence on others for rides. Camping gear to take some camping trips, work gloves, you can mail or bring your own computer if you want to have better computer access, any medicines or vitamins that you usually take, art supplies or musical instruments, books or music, special foods, stamps and envelopes.
If you have more questions about the community or any thing else then please feel free to call or send us an e-mail and we will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Sometimes it may take a few days to get back with you if you call, e-mail is a better way to reach us.
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Good information for the summer months. Heat acclimation |
- Here are some links to personal sites or blogs from a few who have visited WS.
- Huron County Guy ECO-TOUR of North America!! Go to Friday March 10-13, 2006 for their Wind Spirit information.
- This is an excellent resource and interesting blog the last entry below is below. You can spend hours on this site it is a wealth of information.
- Monday, December 31, 2007
- That concludes this chapter of a multi-phase plan to promote intentional communities, specifically Eco-villages, as a most reasonable and effective response to the many extremely dangerous situations confronting human civilization in the 21st century. Apart from the issues of sustainability, I have also tried to highlight the numerous true benefits of this mode of living simply from a 'quality-of-life' viewpoint. I want to express sincere appreciation for all of you who hosted us, gifted us with resources of all types, and encouraged us to continue with this work. Over the two years, I documented around 100 different projects, met so many incredible people doing so many incredible things, traveled over 50000 kms (half of which was accomplished with used fryer vegetable oil as fuel), compiled over 5000 photographs, and accumulated countless stories and experiences which can transform our collective future. The next phase will be to synthesize all of the information from these trips with my many years of prior study, and fashion a traveling slide-show presentation for Ontario. I intend to soon find out if public consciousness is ready for turning our cultural path around...
- Tribe.net Shalon profile, reflections of her short stay.
- Rex's DezertDog site. For his photo's and info on Wind Spirit farm. Rex has photo's and commentary on WSC ,2005-2008
- Rex also did (March 2006) a motorcycle tour down to the tip of South America and back that is very interesting. You can see hundreds of photo's and plenty of text describing his journey. If you want a tour of Australia, winter 08-09. Go here to see it BMWDOG
Do you want to go to the beach in Mexico, in under 4 hours from Tucson you can be at the beach. Here is a page with photo's and brief description about getting there and what it is like in Puerto Penasco - Rocky Point, Mexico
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