LV ecoVillage (Lost Valley) has been on my ‘To
Do’ list for over 4 years - ever since I discovered GEN
(www.gen.org) at my stays
in Sieben Linden (www.siebenlinden.de)
in Germany. There had to be a closer community! (I'm not into glorified condos (aka co-housing), or small (<20) communities).
I searched the GEN directory for closeby ecoVillages and the only listings on the West Coast were LV and the LA condominium. I was going to visit here (LV) last year but car troubles precluded that. So this year, I finally decided to combine it with my annual Mt. Shasta backpacking trip, doing a weekend drive-by in October. I was so taken by the land and the people here (along with meeting a friend I’d known in the Bay Area) that I decided it was worth a much longer stay: hence a 12 day stay in November.
I searched the GEN directory for closeby ecoVillages and the only listings on the West Coast were LV and the LA condominium. I was going to visit here (LV) last year but car troubles precluded that. So this year, I finally decided to combine it with my annual Mt. Shasta backpacking trip, doing a weekend drive-by in October. I was so taken by the land and the people here (along with meeting a friend I’d known in the Bay Area) that I decided it was worth a much longer stay: hence a 12 day stay in November.
I arrived fully loaded
with food, cooking+camping supplies, not knowing what to expect as
far as accommodations + food goes.
