People are overwhelmed, disconnected, and priced out of the places and communities where they belong. Conventional homeownership is out of reach for a growing generation. Nuclear family isolation is a documented wellbeing crisis.
The Living Innovation Campus offers micro-village living at a fraction of the cost, governed as a private membership association, with luxurious shared commons — a community where the whole is more valuable than any of its parts.
This is for those who have looked at their life and thought: there has to be a better way. Independent, creative, and community-minded people who want proximity to nature, meaningful work, and people who share their values.
Need both focus and connection — a place to work deeply and live fully.
Need affordable studio space, a built-in audience, and community support.
Looking for village-scale support and a safe, enriching environment to raise children.
Ready to build and retire into something lasting — not just a house, but a community.
The development provides building pads — water, electric, road access — plus extensive shared commons. Members choose their own dwelling from a vetted affiliate catalog. The key inversion: the value is the commons, not the box.
Commons Trust holds title in perpetuity. Base utilities, roads, agro-ecology systems, and site design by Charles Durrett serve every pad.
Barn kitchen, event venues, natural pools, farm-to-table café, makerspace, innovation hub, youth center, sculpture gardens, and sports facilities.
Members choose from tinyhouses, prefab/modular, geodesic domes, or recreational rigs. Own or lease your structure. Pad access is a lifelong heritable membership benefit.
Everyone who accesses the property is a member. Membership is the product — access, belonging, and governance are what people are joining for.
One-time entry fee (TBD) · Lifetime pad access · Heritable and transferable · Commons Assembly governance voice · Trust Units with revenue distribution rights · Sweat equity path available via Access Credits
60 Access Credits annually · 20% discount on public events · Full network access across all nodes · Upgrade path to Wanderer or Steward
180 Access Credits · Premium pad access · 10 events included · Maker studio day passes · Commons Assembly observer status
400 Access Credits · All events included · Monthly maker studio block · Full governance voice · Right of first refusal on pad openings
One-time founding payments front-load commons infrastructure capital.
40 founding residents = operationally cash-positive before the first event.
Recurring annual dues plus per-event revenue that scales with programming quality.
Artisans, practitioners, café, and school fill gaps between programming.
Glamping and visitor stays activate the property year-round and feed the Travel Club pipeline.
Nevada City is Node 1 of 3 proof-of-concept developments. Each node uses the same Trivium governance framework, the same Trust Guild infrastructure, and the same operating model — a replicable template proven once, deployed anywhere.
Site visit complete — active development. Proof of concept. First cash flow. Living demo of the model.
In negotiations. Wellness and restoration focus.
Pending funding. Eco-adventure and international gateway.
Living Innovation Campus sits at the intersection of four converging markets. This is not a niche experiment — it is a timely response to documented, large-scale demand.
Node 1 in Nevada City is proof-of-concept at human scale — the model that validates the replication. Founding investors participate in profit-share from a growing network of communities, with returns from pad entry fees, monthly commons dues, Travel Club memberships, short-term stays, and events. Full financial projections and pro-forma are in the companion Micro-Village Prospectus.
Stone Soup does not wait for everyone to arrive before starting. It starts, and the right people find their way to the kitchen.
Living Innovation Campus is the pot. The commons infrastructure, governance architecture, dwellings catalog, and membership model are all designed so that each person who joins makes it better for everyone who comes after.
If this is the kind of life you have been looking for — a collaborative neighborhood, shared abundance, meaningful work, land held in trust for the long haul — the door is open.
A new lifestyle of abundance, connection, and creativity — People, Place, Purpose and Play