Page 21 - Communities Respond to COVID-19

Our building committee, farm and garden meetings still go on. Initially our meetings, even
internationally, were via Zoom. We have also held Live Online meetings to teach and interact with the
world. Our children are studying online, but they are happy and adjusted.

We have land, gardens, animals, fresh veggies rising up in our gardens. We walk freely in Nature. The
trees need no masks.

We usually have a lot of guests, from various countries visiting our village, but because of the
lockdowns, there has been no visits and volunteer staff is less than we need at the moment. When the
lockdown hit, two volunteers were here and didn't want to leave. One still remains here with us, which
is a blessing.

The positives are time for reflection, for deeper meditation, inner healing, time for writing, creative
projects, planning and gardening. Look forward to music jams with all!

www.ecovillagepoland.org

Parvati Rosen-Bizberg
Roberts Creek Cohousing, BC, Canada

Our common facilities (common house, gym, woodworking shop) have all been closed since mid March.
We have extensive community vegetable gardens and those are still actively being planted, with social
distancing practices. All meetings are now on zoom.

Stacia Leech

Purafruta, Costa Rica

We were in Costa Rica, best country which handled corona. And we are in region of Limon which only
get 1 or few cases.

And we moved on the land in the tents while building first roof.

So was easy :)
More on FB and YouTube Pura Fruta"

Mindaugas Austinskas

Blackberry Community, California, USA

There have been 4 adults (2 couples) in our community since the lockdown started, and we're still
sharing dinners every night. We have been very careful concerning grocery shopping (always wear
masks and gloves, and disinfect everything upon coming home) and have had no direct physical contact
with each other. Two of us are healthy seniors, and the others are middle-aged trans women, one of
whom is still recovering from gender dysphoria surgery (so health is compromised...) I had been taking
care of my 1-yr-old grandbaby at her home once a week, so this has been a terrible blow to me! I'm
getting by on FaceTime and Zoom meetings...

Janie Kesselman