Pacific Gardens Cohousing

I just wanted to take a moment to express my appreciation for all the wild habitat we have here. As I parked my vehicle the other morning, I looked over to see this beautiful family. They stood under the pondside apple tree, paying me no heed:

Cohousing for sale in Yarrow near Abbotsford. https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/26760543/2-42312-yarrow-central-road-yarrow?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2xIIEiF15YxaogbaqtqopgAPSoaRLEp6RY-4etgkXl8yDLJHpmrejtqtY_aem_Ab3Ce_IbtY-wsbzII2zUBDW1-Uv69gWV0HQdzMSvccsDEgICy9oQ7f8xP2ggH7mGxohNIRhLPOPNLVEDmAwCFtL3

Check out this listing 2 42312 YARROW CENTRAL ROAD, Yarrow, British Columbia V2R5E2

For sale - 3 bedroom and den! Rare opportunity to join our community!

So much support for families, elders, and everyone in between. Our community has 17 kids ages 3 to 18, and plenty of room to play and explore. Our playroom’s new climbing wall is a special favourite, and our gigantic trampoline. Come check us out!

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ROOM FOR RENT AT PACIFIC GARDENS - May 1

Hi everyone! I am renting out a bedroom, and am looking for the right 'fit' to join our community.

This is more than just a bedroom rental - Pacific Gardens Cohousing is on over 4 acres, with access to communal gardens 🍎, adjoining a public parkland 🌿. Residents here have access to ample space, including conversation and study lounges, large outdoor covered patios 🪴, a communal kitchen with 2 stoves, 2 fridges, and shared baking resources, an art room 🙋‍♂️, gym, office with communal computers and a printer (not pictured) music room with piano and sound system (not pictured), and handyperson workshop 🏗 - all surrounding 'the atrium,' which is a large skylighted hall connecting all units.

In addition to the benefits of communal space, the community holds potlucks 🍕 twice weekly in the dining hall, morning coffee ☕social hour twice a week, and boardgame night once a week for those who want to connect. There are other community events that sometimes occur, such as concerts 🎹 held in the atrium. We also have an electric modo 🚗 onsite for those who wish to join the carshare.

The bedroom is available for rent starting May 1st. The room is fully furnished, including a small study desk, and a shared bathroom. The room is on our lower level, a quiet room on a level with only one other bedroom. Our living spaces are in the floor above.

About Us:✅

We are a 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming home with 2 adults, 2 children under 12, and a cat 🐱. We are musicians, avid bakers, artists, and community advocates. We are a predominantly dry household and 100% smoke free. The larger community is quite intergenerational, ranging from toddlers 👶to seniors 👳‍♀️.

The Right Fit: ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵

I'm looking for a respectful, community minded person who is comfortable with children, a team player in household management, and who is ideally familiar with compassionate communication (nonviolent communication). I'm also open to short and long term rental options.

For more info, contact Alicia Vanin - [email protected] 😀

Sharing what we love about our community

What song do you like to sing or play?

What do you dream about?!

Such important work.

March 23rd - 24th, become a Streamkeeper! Register with [email protected]. Space is limited.

Tell me how you greet this neighbour?!

Imagine trampolining with this beautiful neighbour!

One week until "Livable Nanaimo with Todd Litman" at Vancouver Island University! March 5th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at VIU Building 200 Room 203.

Join us for an exciting event featuring Todd Litman, a renowned urban planning expert. Discover how we can make Nanaimo a more livable city for everyone! Todd is the founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. His work helps expand the range of impacts and options considered in transportation decision-making, improve evaluation methods, and make specialized technical concepts accessible to a larger audience. His research is used worldwide in transport planning and policy analysis.

This book is an amazing resource!

Book launch party on Saturday, March 2nd at Cranberry Commons for "Community Led Cohousing" by Ronaye Matthew and Margaret Critchlow!

https://www.cohousing.ca/event/book-launch-party-for-community-led-housing/

Thanks to Dan Morris for the fantastic tree! It’s so huge, it bends at the ceiling in our place. Cat did most of the sawing, and she choose the tallest and widest beauty on the lot. More to come on the decorating. It turns out we need more lights to fill this massive tree.

ROOM FOR RENT. One of our residents says:

Hi everyone! I am renting out my upstairs bedroom, and am looking for the right 'fit' to join our community.

This is more than just a bedroom rental - Pacific Gardens Cohousing is on over 4 acres, with access to communal gardens, adjoining a public parkland. Residents here have access to ample space, including conversation and study lounges, large outdoor covered patios, a communal kitchen with 2 stoves, 2 fridges, and shared baking resources, an art room, gym, office with communal computers and a printer (not pictured) music room with piano and sound system (not pictured), and handyperson workshop - all surrounding 'the atrium,' which is a large skylighted hall connecting all units.

In addition to the benefits of communal space, the community holds potlucks twice weekly in the dining hall, morning coffee social hour twice a week, and boardgame night once a week for those who want to connect. There are other community events that sometimes occur, such as concerts held in the atrium. We also have an electric modo onsite for those who wish to join the carshare.

My upstairs bedroom is available for rent starting December 1st - earlier is also possible. The room is fully furnished, including a small study desk. There are two full bathrooms in our home, one on each floor. The upstairs floor of our home includes your bedroom, the children's bedroom, the upstairs full bathroom, open concept kitchen + dining + living room, and library. The monthly cost is $900

About Us:

We are a 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming home with 2 adults, 2 children under 12, and a cat. We are musicians, avid bakers, artists, and community advocates. We are a predominantly dry household and 100% smoke free. The larger community is quite intergenerational, ranging from toddlers to seniors.

The Right Fit:

I'm looking for a respectful, community minded person who is comfortable with children, a team player in household management, and who is ideally familiar with compassionate communication (nonviolent communication). I'm also open to short and long term rental options.

We are so grateful to live with such beauty and diversity.

Thanks for sharing our story, Compass Cohousing!

Cohousing is wild for the environment.
1/3 of Pacific Gardens cohousing is a dedicated wildlife habitat that includes a wetland pond, ducks, frogs and over 41 different species of birds!

The Aviva Chorus is going strong again. We love hearing their practices on Saturdays at Pacific Gardens Cohousing. Join us at their concert on Saturday, December 9 from 2 to 4pm right here! Aviva welcomes all genders and abilities, and they are so much fun. https://www.facebook.com/AVIVAChorus

Elevate your social life at Pacific Gardens Cohousing! Dive into diverse activities like weekly games night post-potluck, uniting generations and forging lasting friendships. Join our interest list today! 🌟🎉

Join our cohousing! Our cohousing is a pretty amazing place, a multigenerational cohousing with lots of collective spaces (dining room, play room, exercise room, arts room etc…see the pictures, it’s all common space!). We have potlucks twice a week. It allows us to have safe spaces for child keen to play, amazing loving neighbours and access super easily to babysitters and adopted grandparents.

Some of our dear neighbours are moving out, and we will miss them very much. And… that also means there is a 3 bedroom and den unit to rent for October. So… would you be our new neighbour?? It’s a good opportunity to try it out and decide if you want to buy into it.
It’s also a great apartment to share among two or three households.
Reach out if you have questions about cohousing life!
Here is the ad:

PG For Rent Large unit on two levels with plenty of space in the Harewood neighborhood. Located in Pacific Gardens Cohousing, this is a unique opportunity to participate in community living. One parking spot, in suite laundry, storage locker and water included. Possibility to include furnishings.

A favourite sign of spring!

Snowbirds release flying schedule for Comox spring training The Snowbirds have arrived in Comox for spring training, and have released the schedule for the team's almost daily flights.

Are you interested in learning more about cohousing communities and how they can support a robust and resilient lifestyle? Cohousing Open House Day on May 6th was made for you.

As a proud supporter of the broader family of cohousing communities, we are excited to share that Driftwood Village Cohousing and Quayside Village Cohousing in North Vancouver are offering tours on this special day. This is your chance to see firsthand how the built and social aspects of cohousing combine to create a unique and thriving community.

Visiting a cohousing community in person can often inspire the desire to become a resident yourself. Join our interest lists to hear about units that may come available for sale or rent. While there is no one indicating an intention to sell or rent at this moment, we will share with you if/when the time comes.

Take a tour on May 6th and discover what makes cohousing a communities so special, and then reach out to us. We offer tours upon request.

Interested in Cohousing in North Vancouver?

We'd love to see you at Driftwood Village's Open House next Saturday, May 6!

We have no homes available for sale at this time but we'll have tours of our community, and would love to show you around and answer your questions.

(Quayside Village Cohousing, at 510 Chesterfield Avenue, is also open for tours at the same time – from 10 a.m. until noon.)

Hope to see you there!

What good thing have you done for yourself today? I am having a walk with my cohousing neighbour, great for the soul and the heart.

Nanaimo singer continues to do well. She’s poised to win big during the Juno Awards this weekend.

Canadian pop singer Lauren Spencer Smith manifested a Juno nomination — and it worked — CBC News The 19-year-old singer, who was raised on Vancouver Island, is nominated for artist of the year at this year's Juno Awards — the lone early-career artist in the category as she competes against Michael Bublé, Shawn Mendes, Avril Lavigne and the Weeknd.

Upcoming Concerts in our community in March. Open to the public. See details below:

Sat. March 4th: Brazilian-Canadian singer Bandeira Parker will be performing two 20 minute sets of storytelling musical improv with jazz pianist Michael Anderson.

Be prepared for a homage to Dan's hero Spookey Ruben with a short set of covers dedicated to this Canadian indie genius from the 90s. Wes Raley, Richard Loucks and Reid Wilson will be laying down the grooves. Special guests to be announced soon...

Sat. March 11th: Take in some 19th century German lieder (songs) that deal with the throes of rejection and the mood swings of a sensitive young man trudging through the winter snow, seeking solace and resigning to life's inescapable suffering.
Dan Parker will be singing selections from Franz Scubert's Winterreise, accompanied by Julian Jongkind. A translation will be projected.
Julian will be opening the evening with the following repertoire.
Scott Joplin, A Mexican Serenade
Bach, Prelude and Fugue in G major from the Well Tempered Clavier Book II, BWV 884
Debussy, Claire de Lune
Liszt, Harmonies Poétiques Et Religieuses, Funérailles

General information for both shows:

Doors open at 6:30 PM and the show will start at 7 PM sharp and end before 9:15 PM.

The shows will take place indoors in the Pacific Gardens Cohousing Community atrium.

Address: 347 Seventh Street.

Suggested donation: $10. All funds will go towards the Pacific Gardens Cohousing Community sound system for future events such as this one.

http://pacificgardens.ca/

Children are welcome and come for free.

We’ll follow the provincial guidelines concerning Covid-19.

This is an alcohol and drug-free event.

Some parking is available, although you may need to park in the residential streets nearby. Come by bike, foot or carpool!
Smoking and va**ng can take place in the designated area right by Seventh St.

Please note that we are a scent free building as some of our residents suffer from allergies and sensitivities.

Pacific Gardens – Intentional Community: A way of life Nestled in a secluded 4 acre site on the Chase River, surrounded by trees, Pacific Gardens Cohousing Community is a 25-unit development designed for community living. Close to VIU, University Village Mall, Harewood Heights Mall, and the Old City Quarter.

Permanently in Nanaimo!

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AVIVA IS BACK ! It’s time to dust off the vocal chords and remember why we sing. With Pride, love of song, appreciation of joyful noise, and the sharing of an inclusive community spirit, AVIVA Chorus invites all abilities, gender identities and expressions to come Out and sing with us. We are a non auditioned choir of various experiences welcoming you Saturday January 7 th, from 10-12noon, 347, 7th street, Pacific Gardens Cohousing. Singing masks provided, but not mandatory, as we follow BCCF safety guidelines.