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Past Events & Activities
A record of our community visits, book clubs, meetings, and more.
🎙️ Guest Speaker & Potluck: Cooperative Housing with Sandra Rueda
Monthly general meeting and potluck with guest speaker Sandra Rueda presenting on cooperative housing models.
🪩 Gather NJ Festival
Weekend festival featuring workshops, music, communal meals, camping, and connection. CLNJ presenting a workshop on collaborative housing.
🪩 Potluck at North Brunswick Artist Community
Monthly potluck hosted by a coliving community of artists and musicians in North Brunswick.
ℹ️ Altair EcoVillage Online Information Session
Online Zoom presentation from the Altair EcoVillage team with updates on their forming 55+ intentional community project in the region.
🤝 Social Meeting and Potluck
Monthly community gathering with shared food, updates, and open discussion on cooperative living in NJ.
ℹ️ Altair EcoVillage Online Information Session
Online Zoom presentation from the Altair EcoVillage team with updates on their forming 55+ intentional community project in the region.
🤝 1st General Meeting & Potluck of 2026!
Kicked off the new year with shared food, introductions, and a look ahead at 2026 goals, events, and community-building plans.
🤝 General Meeting and Potluck
Monthly gathering with shared food, community updates, and planning discussions ahead of the upcoming Ganas visit and Twin Oaks conference.
🏡 Community Visit: Ganas Community
Group visit to Ganas, a long-running urban intentional community on Staten Island focused on personal growth, consensus governance, and cooperative household management.
🤝 September Zoom General Meeting
Online general meeting to share community news, recap the summer’s events and visits, and coordinate fall programming.
🏡 Community Visit: Twin Oaks Communities Conference
Annual gathering of intentional community practitioners from across the country at Twin Oaks Community in rural Virginia — CLNJ’s second year attending as a group.
🪩 Social Hike at Round Valley Reservoir
A group hike through the trails around Round Valley Reservoir in Lebanon, NJ — an opportunity to connect with fellow members in nature.
🤝 July General Outdoor Potluck Picnic & Meeting
Summer outdoor picnic and general meeting in Chester, NJ with shared food, community updates, and open discussion in the fresh air.
🏡 Community Visit: Hundredfold Farm Cohousing
Visit to Hundredfold Farm, an established cohousing community in Pennsylvania, for a tour of the property and conversation with long-time residents about cohousing life.
🪩 Rocky Brook Cohousing Kickoff Meeting
Launch meeting for Rocky Brook Cohousing, a new cohousing development forming in New Jersey — an exciting milestone for cooperative housing in the state.
📚 Book Club: The Serviceberry
A multi-session online book club exploring Robin Wall Kimmerer’s reflections on gift economies, reciprocity, and our relationships with the natural world.
🤝 April Potluck & General Meeting
Monthly gathering with shared food, community news, and coordination for upcoming spring events including the Hundredfold Farm visit and Rocky Brook kickoff.
🤝 March Potluck & General Meeting
Monthly gathering with shared food and planning discussions as the group prepared for a busy spring of community visits and the Serviceberry book club launch.
🎙️ General Meeting with Guest Speaker Greg Nelson
Online general meeting featuring guest speaker Greg Nelson sharing perspectives on intentional community development and cooperative living models.
🏡 Community Visit: Ganas Community
A return visit to Ganas on Staten Island for a deeper look at their income-sharing, consensus-based model and the personal growth practices central to their community culture.
🎙️ Zoom Meeting with Guest Speaker Rob Dietz
Online meeting featuring economist and author Rob Dietz discussing steady-state economics, degrowth, and the role of intentional communities in building resilient local economies.
🤝 November Potluck & General Meeting
Monthly gathering with shared food and discussions following a busy autumn of community visits, guest speakers, and the Bryn Gweled trip.
ℹ️ The Dr. is In! (Community Q&A)
Open online Q&A session with a community expert — a chance for members and curious newcomers to ask questions about intentional community living, formation, and joining.
🏡 Community Visit: Bryn Gweled Potluck & Meeting
Visit to Bryn Gweled Homesteads in Southampton, PA for a community potluck and meeting — a chance to connect with residents of this 70-acre land trust community established in 1945.
🪩 Help Build a Tiny Forest at Snipes Farm
Volunteer event at Snipes Farm in Morrisville, PA to plant a Miyawaki-style tiny forest — hands-on ecological restoration and a great way to connect with the land and each other.
🤝 October Potluck & General Meeting
Monthly gathering with shared food and planning for November’s packed schedule of events including the Bryn Gweled visit, tiny forest build, and community Q&A.
ℹ️ New Member Orientation Zoom
Online orientation session welcoming new members, introducing EVNJ’s mission and projects, and explaining how to get involved with the growing community.
🤝 September Potluck & General Meeting
Monthly gathering with shared food, recapping the summer Twin Oaks conference, and planning fall events including the Bryn Gweled visit and community Q&A sessions.
🏡 Community Visit: Twin Oaks Communities Conference
First EVNJ group trip to the annual intentional communities conference at Twin Oaks in Virginia — a landmark networking event connecting community-builders from across the country.
🏡 Community Visit: Bryn Gweled Community Day
Open community day at Bryn Gweled Homesteads — an opportunity to explore the 70-acre shared land trust property and meet residents of one of the oldest intentional communities in the mid-Atlantic.
🏡 Community Visit: Sirius Community Interdependence Day
Group visit to Sirius Community in Shutesbury, MA for their annual Interdependence Day celebration — a showcase of sustainable community living, ecological practices, and cooperative culture.
🏡 Community Visit: Heathcote Community
Visit to Heathcote Community in Freeland, MD — one of the longest-running intentional communities in the mid-Atlantic, featuring a beautiful rural property and decades of collective wisdom.
🏡 Community Visit: Takoma Village Cohousing
Tour of Takoma Village Cohousing in Washington, DC — a pioneering urban cohousing community built in 1999 with 43 households and robust shared spaces in a walkable neighborhood.
🤝 May General Meeting
Monthly general meeting at the Mercer County Library with community updates, book club discussions, and planning for the summer community visits season.
🎙️ April General Meeting with Guest Speaker Cynthia Tina
Hybrid meeting featuring Cynthia Tina, author of the Fellowship for Intentional Community’s Starter Guide, sharing her extensive experience supporting people who want to find or form communities.
🤝 March General Meeting
Monthly hybrid meeting at the Mercer County Library in Lawrenceville, with community updates and ongoing book club discussions from the Creating a Life Together series.
🪩 D&R Canal Towpath Cleanup
Community volunteer event cleaning up the Delaware & Raritan Canal towpath at Turning Basin Park in Princeton — putting cooperative values into action through local ecological stewardship.
🤝 February General Meeting
Monthly hybrid meeting at the West Windsor branch of Mercer County Library, with community updates and the launch of the Creating a Life Together book club series.
🎙️ January General Meeting with Guest Speaker Diana Leafe Christian
Special meeting at the Princeton Public Library featuring Diana Leafe Christian, author of Creating a Life Together, sharing decades of experience supporting intentional community formation worldwide.
📚 Book Club: Creating a Life Together
A year-long multi-session online book club studying Diana Leafe Christian’s essential practical guide for growing ecovillages and intentional communities.
🤝 2024 EVNJ Planning Palooza
Year-end planning session at the Princeton Public Library to map out 2024 — setting community goals, scheduling events and visits, and welcoming new members into the planning process.
🏡 Community Visit: Ecovillage at Ithaca
The founding community visit that helped inspire EVNJ — a trip to one of the world’s most celebrated ecovillages featuring two cohousing neighborhoods and decades of sustainable living innovation.
