On Sunday, November 8, from 2-4 p.m., at 45 Edgecomb Road, Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage will host an open house. The event will feature a game of Frisbee golf; a tour of a model home built by G•O Logic, the project’s design/build firm; and an opportunity to talk with project members and walk the community’s land.

“This level of activity is actually pretty typical of our community,” said Sanna McKim, one of the project’s leaders. “We get a lot done in two hours. We talk, we plan, we build—and we have a lot of fun doing it.”

At 2, Frisbee golf players can tackle an informal nine-hole course spread across the project’s land. “The community owns 30 acres,” said McKim, “and we’re planning to preserve the surrounding 150 acres as farmland and open space. If you play the course, you’ll get a good workout; you’ll also get a good feel for the land.”

At 3, Alan Gibson, a partner at G•O Logic, will lead a tour of one of the firm’s model homes, on Crocker Road. “It’s a super-insulated, passive solar house,” said Gibson. “It’s designed to reduce the cost of heating and powering a house by as much as 90%. It’s also a kind of rough draft of the housing we’ll build for the Cohousing & Ecovillage project.”

At Edgecomb Road, visitors can inspect the project’s house designs and site plans. Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage has spent two years planning an environmentally sustainable, multi-generational cohousing community.

The event is free, all are welcome, and delicious snacks—a hallmark of the Belfast Cohousing experience—will be provided.