BIGGEST News in Garden of Eden HISTORY!
Building upon nearly a decade of unprecedented success, The Garden of Eden sustainable community is now selling their homestead to expand the scope of their project.
Despite being the target of an unsubstantiated black ops SWAT raid in 2013 that was covered by international media outlets including the Huffington Post, they have continued to grow and thrive, achieve a negative carbon footprint, and feed 40K free meals a year.
The 3.37 acre property located at the southwestern edge of Arlington, Texas is offered for $600K. The community is entertaining offers in USD or cryptocurrency and intends to invest all proceeds from the sale of the property into a new sustainable eco-village of a greater scale.
The property's most unique and potentially valuable feature is the thriving ecosystem cultivated over the last decade that served as the basis for their humanitarian outreach. Watered by a 120 ft well and enclosed by a 30 foot tall living bamboo border along the street-facing perimeter, the property is lush and secluded, living up to its illustrious name. While it is only minutes from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and within walking distance of the Tierra Verde golf course, the property is adjacent to acres of pasture and grazing land, giving it a rural and peaceful feeling.
This large residential acreage has a sustainable food production system developed through permaculture practices. The land includes many mature fruit and nut trees, dozens of native berry bushes, well established gardens of edible and medicinal perennials and herbs, 2 Hugelkultur mounds, 16 raised garden beds, and over an acre of nutrient rich planting soil.
Founder and director of the eco-village Quinn Eaker says,
“I am very reluctant to let go of this place because it’s the best living environment I have ever experienced in my whole life! Not only has it become dear to us through the investment of our blood, sweat, and tears, making this once barren yard into a lush Garden of Eden, but we have also made it quite tangibly valuable. We will be leaving behind a fully self-sustaining food production system that could have fed us for generations. Yet, a wealth of opportunities beckon us to move beyond the horizon of this place and on to grander projects that will ultimately be of greater service and support to more people and to our planet. Still, we hope that the new custodians of the land will appreciate its bounty and continue to cultivate it.”
Special features of the 3,850 square foot main house include 4 bedrooms with double master suites, 3 bathrooms, a 2 car garage, a large fireplace with mantle in the living room, vaulted ceilings, a cast iron wood burning stove in the kitchen, 5 unique hand-laid floors, and many other handcrafted artistic embellishments.
Other structures on the land include a hand-built Cobb cottage currently providing steady revenue as an AirBnB rental, a 25 x 60 ft barn, and 4 recycled pallet structures that are currently used for storage and animal housing.
Plans for their next project Eden 2.0 are currently in the works. This self-reliant new paradigm city space will be built with smart contract governance and have individual and family housing; sustainable power, water, waste treatment, and food production systems; and learning, childcare, dining, and recreational facilities to support a community of hundreds of people.
The Garden of Eden will host a mini-festival and fundraiser exclusively for members of their private club over Memorial Day weekend to thank and farewell their loyal local supporters and to raise additional funds for their next project. The event will include on-site camping, free food, a musical line-up featuring well-known local artists, workshops, and classes on sustainability and holistic living, and an exclusive presale of their numerous vast collections of clothing, housewares, collectibles, and salvaged building materials. An extensive estate sale will be offered to the public on the weekend following the festival, June 1-3, during which the remainder of items will be sold.
Interested buyers and investors may contact Quinn Eaker.
Phone: 520-921-9439
E-mail: [email protected]
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OMG!!!!! Here we are!! Letting go brings opportunity for newness to enter. Intense times are these. So grateful we are doing it together! <3
Give thanks! <3 <3 <3
Beautiful work .. just amazing
The place looks really wonderful
Thanks for sharing
So nice and beautiful property.. Its a big step . may you succeed in your plan.
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what! wow! what huge news!
Sending Love and many blessings for this!
I wonder where will Eden 2 be! That must also be an exciting thing to think about.. SO many decisions!! <3
did you ever spot my post about blockchain funded community building? I wonder if that is something you have thought about?!
My Vision For Blockchain Based Communities Worldwide.
https://steemit.com/budget/@eco-alex/the-ecovillage-coin-a-new-approach-for-off-grid-and-sustainable-communities-my-vision-for-blockchain-based-communities-worldwide
Thank you @eco-alex! Yes it is an exciting time to be alive!
Thanks for sharing your link - looks like we have many similar ideas for our projects. Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology will certainly have a significant role in the future of our network of sustainable housing developments!
What stage are you at? Feel free to send us an email at [email protected].
Excuse the delay! Thanks for sharing your email ID! Im starting to see more people come up with Very interesting Blockchain community ideas! There are so many ways to use blockchain, and the way I want to use it is REAlly interesting! I REALLY wonder if your vision is on the same lines as mine or another way to work magic with crypto!.. Its all so hard to explain, and some of it quite technical.
I'm at the very start of creating the vision for this. For me the most important part is the ability to use the ecoVillage coin much like Steem works. By doing this, and getting the variables right so that price is stable, it is my hope that this coin could fund the majority of the build and creation of the ecoVillage. People would be able to buy in, but at very low cost, and there would be a sliding scale.
A LOT of money can be saved by using volunteer labour, and skilled labour who have an incentive to work for nothing because they will receive one of the first homes in the community. Basically, with my experience and connections Im confidant I could build a whole community for a tiny fraction of the cost of what any one would spend to self-build. If we choose the right country in Europe to start with, it can also bypass a LOT of the hurdles and red tape that people get blocked by. Choosing a country or area that supports the cause is a sure way to open doors and get a first proof of concept going. Earthship Brighton was a success and received land for free by the Brighton & Hove Council because they are supporters of the cause. They even gave planning permission to build in National Trust Land, which is Very unusual. So location is going to be a KEY to the success as well.
One of the key variables in my system is how much pre mining can be done. Pre mining would be used to acquire land, and subsidise the build to the extent that it would cost peanuts to own a home. We would get some immediate buying strength through deposits made by people who are ready to buy a home in this community. Other important variables are the amount of inflation, and how much of that goes to development, how much goes to the community (reward pool), and how much is locked up and held.
Another thing that is really important is how ownership would work! In my vision there is no legal ownership of the property. People will have a lifetime lease, and ownership would be in the name of the ecoVillage Trust. The trust needs to own and control buying and selling to prevent abuse, and skyrocketing prices.. Lots of detail on that in my post. The main point is that people will not only have a home for life, with no bills, but will also earn money in ecoVillage 'Dollars'. The buy in is going to be very small!
Note that people are not buying ecoVillage coin, but are buying the right to live in their home for life. The coins that were bought would be owned an controlled by the Trust and will help to stabilise the price.
I also really like the idea of the community being able to organically fund each others small projects using the up-vote system. Everyone who buys in will have ecoVillage Power (a % of buy in would be delegated by the trust) and the community can support the things it wants to see happen, just like on Steemit.
WEll, that's just what comes off the top of my head to try to give you an idea of my vision. Once I meet the programmer I am looking for I will determine the feasibility of the whole idea and math of the Steem Blockchain.
The thing i REALLY like about this idea is that even if the coin fails (worst case situation) the assets and homes will be owned outright and will be safe and protected.
There is a LOT to think about huh!
Maybe its nice to chat it out here so others might find it? I even wonder if a discord group might be a good idea, since there are a few of us thinking along these lines and it might a good way to bring us together.
Id love to hear more about your vision!
<3
Bravo, Godspeed and grand fortune on your next endeavors!
Thank you @danielhime!
it had been running successfully garden of eden project and now prepare for launching project eden 2.0 will be more success.
May it be so!
wow........its a big happy news............you start really a very good project,,,,,,,it has a nice theme,,,positive side and honesty to do something best.....i wish,,,,,,you will be gain in your project.......all the best.......
Thank you @abontikazaman! <3
Amazing post.i praying the project is quick complete and they successfully. I like the post. Thank you sharing the post.
Thanks for your support!
Welcome
Hello friends, if this project is for improvements, go ahead! and I wish you the best of success!
Thank you @jennimorillo! We hope to serve hundreds if not thousands of people in the next phase.
Friend those are good news really since I know you do a great job helping others that is why they have so many things in abundance, everything looks very good to cultivate is the best, blessings
Thank you @andrina~