Jonathan and Eva bought the 17 acres of beautiful wooded hillside that is Newt Crossing in the late 1990s, with every intention of creating a sustainability-focused community where families could raise their children and grow old together. Raising two boys and sharing the land with a variety of friends kept them busy, but the organizational structure to create legal sharing community was never present.

They have extensive experience of traveling, visiting, and living in community. From cohousing in Denmark to shared homes in the US, from Findhorn to Songaia; they learned that life is richer in a community, that an underlying organization is necessary to make it work, that community takes many forms, and always takes patience.

We are now a group of households who have come together, consensed on a site design, and are eagerly moving forward to the next stages of designing our little village in the woods.

In early 2019 we reached out to Charles Durrett for a feasibility study. He came to Port Townsend in August 2019 and agreed that Newt Crossing has the potential that we have always seen in it. He walked the land and met with county officials.

The exciting thing about having The Cohousing Company onboard is that they have a formula that works. Having been part of over 55 functioning cohousing communities, their guidance can help Newt Crossing put the tasks before us in the right order so that we don't get bogged down in the minutia before setting up the structure to work on those details.

Newt Crossing currently has two homes and one large garage building will become part of the common house.