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Wise Acres Cooperative Association

About Wise Acres

Wise Acres Cooperative Association is a small intentional community in the rural waterfront town of Indianola, Washington. Since its foundation in 1990 the community has been home to 7-9 families, including kids, parents, grandparents, and a smattering of passers by. Nine home sites are individually owned, but members share ~13 acres of forested greenbelt perched above Port Madison Bay, a large and productive vegetable garden, fruit orchards, a hot tub, and a community house. We also share a couple group dinners each week, and the work and play that comes with all of that.

Wise Acres Vision Statement (excerpt)

Wise Acres Cooperative Association is a land-based intentional community.We are individuals and families inspired by the riches gained by committing ourselves to actively participate in community. While we recognize and respect the ebb and flow of individual needs and energies, to ensure the success of community we are committed to the following:

• Practice conservation and land stewardship
• Share resources and time
• Honor individual differences
• Build trust through love and forgiveness
• Listen to each other with openness and humility
• Work through hardships we encounter as individuals and as a community
• Seek ways to bring innovation and creativity to our structure
• Participate actively in the larger community of our town, nation and world

Who we are can be described in part by what we do:

• We practice non-violence with our children, and each other.
• We maintain a community organic garden and orchard.
• Community dinners happen twice a week, with one household cooking for others on a rotating schedule. Meals tend to be vegetarian.
• We have a community hot tub.
• We celebrate holidays and rituals from a variety of traditions.
• Wednesdays after dinner are for visioning, community support, men's and women's groups, on a rotating basis.
• Our decision-making model is designed to foster listening, one with full consensus being the goal.
• Members are responsible for WACA bookkeeping, taxes, utilities, water quality, road and trail maintenance, etc.
• Officers are elected at our annual meeting on or near April 1st.
• Each family is responsible for monthly community maintenance and enhancement projects.

Wise Acres was proud host of the 2005 spring meeting for the Northwest Intentional Communities Association (NICA).