Rowan, who grew up in Twin Oaks, checks out a new egalitarian community in South America.
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#egalitariancommunities
#Peruviancommunities
#communes
https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/a-new-peruvian-commune/
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Rowan, who grew up in Twin Oaks, checks out a new egalitarian community in South America.
#intentionalcommunities
#egalitariancommunities
#Peruviancommunities
#communes
https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/a-new-peruvian-commune/
The last decade was a period of growth and change for the Federation of Egalitarian Communities.
With a new millenium, the Federation of Egalitarian Communities moved onward in this fourth installment of FEC history.
#incomesharing
#communes
#communalhistory
https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2019/05/13/a-detailed-fec-history-part-four-the-oh-oh-decade/
The nineteen nineties were a period of growth and change for the Federation of Egalitarian Communities.
#incomesharing
#communes
#communalhistory
https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/a-detailed-fec-history-part-three-the-1990s/
The 1980s were a powerful time and a growing time for the Federation of Egalitarian Communities.
#incomesharing
#communes
#communalhistory
https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/a-detailed-fec-history-part-two-the-1980s/
The Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC) is a network that connects US income-sharing communities. It began in the 1970s (although Twin Oaks, the oldest of the current US communes, started in 1967). Here's some of the early history of the FEC (with a lot more history to come).
#incomesharing
#communes
#communalhistory
https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/a-detailed-fec-history-part-one-the-60s-and-70s/
Here’s an interview with Alexis Zeigler of Living Energy Farm where he talks about LEF, Twin Oaks, and lots about living sustainably off-grid and how to help other place around the world.

Many communities are either all white or majority white and when people talk about "Utopian" situations, these are primarily white also. But there are Black Utopians creating "communes".
https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-black-utopians/
The Federation of Egalitarian Communities (the FEC) is a network that connects income sharing communities. Recently they got a new website. Check it out for more information on the FEC.
https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/a-brand-new-website/
I've talked about making April "FEC month" on Commune Life. But what does the FEC do? One way to look at it is to talk about herding cats...
https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/herding-cats-to-network-communities/