Camphill Village Kimberton Hills: Innovations in Intentional Supportive Community Living

Abstract

Summary

Depending on why you come to Camphill Village Kimberton Hills, you might think of it first and foremost as a biodynamic farming and gardening training center, or as an example of intentional community living, or as a place where people with so-called mental disabilities live alongside their non-labeled counterparts, a model for compassionate home-integrated elder care, a local organic food producer and source of organic-biodynamic vegetables, whole-grain sourdough bread, or lunch, or a workshop and conference site. Perhaps you would see it as an ideal place to help students of varying ages integrate ideas about sustainability, social renewal, local sustainable agriculture, healthy lifestyles, watershed management, sustainable architecture and entrepreneurial partnerships. You might see it as an ideal place to volunteer for a day, a year or a lifetime.

In fact, all of these and more are elements of this community, a part of the international Camphill Movement, serving vulnerable people through intentional community living.