Heart of Ecovillages

Returning the voices of the movement to the people who carry them Integrating a dispersed field Making the wider movement visible to itself Translating across networks and traditions Connecting what is dispersed. Strengthening the whole. A growing media and community ecosystem Documenting regenerative living For the people building another way to live together For those who hold the wisdom of community Slow, intentional. Made to last. Annual. Print and digital. 100% recycled paper, vegetable inks The magazine is our first form Issue 1 launches July 2026 at the GEN Europe Gathering Returning the voices of the movement to the people who carry them Integrating a dispersed field Making the wider movement visible to itself Translating across networks and traditions Connecting what is dispersed. Strengthening the whole. A growing media and community ecosystem Documenting regenerative living For the people building another way to live together For those who hold the wisdom of community Slow, intentional. Made to last. Annual. Print and digital. 100% recycled paper, vegetable inks The magazine is our first form Issue 1 launches July 2026 at the GEN Europe Gathering

The Magazine

We uplift
voices of the movement

A printed home for the stories and tools emerging from ecovillages and intentional communities, returned to the people who carry them. Each annual volume gathers practitioners, researchers, and artists around a single theme, and holds resources for people whether they are new to the movement or a seasoned communitarian. Slow craft, made to last.

Manas Garden, European Ecovillage Gathering 2025 (Photo: Sofija Stojanović) · Ängsbacka, European Ecovillage Gathering 2024 (Photos: Tiziano Biagi, Anabelle Moghadam, Daisy Hannah Hunter, Kevin Jordan) · Nature Community, European Ecovillage Gathering 2023 (Photo: Ana Correia) · Additional photos from the GEN Europe photo library

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We hold four distinct rooms

Each volume of Heart of Ecovillages is structured around four recurring sections, four rooms that communities gather in to learn, to share, to create. Together they form a complete picture of regenerative community life, from the practical to the poetic.

01 The Commons. Meet the network.
02 The Garden. Grow your knowledge.
03 The Firepit. Gather around.
04 The Workshop. Build understanding.

Manas Garden, European Ecovillage Gathering 2025
Photo: Sofija Stojanović

Nature Community, European Ecovillage Gathering 2023
Photo: Ana Correia

Manas Garden, European Ecovillage Gathering 2025
Photo: Sofija Stojanović

Nature Community, European Ecovillage Gathering 2023
Photo: Ana Correia

The Commons: Meet the network

Community updates, events, books, documentaries, and the pulse of the movement.

The Garden: Grow your knowledge

Step-by-step tutorials, seasonal guides, and reviews from practitioners.

The Firepit: Gather around

Personal essays, poetry, art, and reflections from the heart of community life.

The Workshop: Build understanding

In-depth case studies, innovation spotlights, and practical wisdom.

Intentions: About Heart

Integrating
a Dispersed Movement, Giving Voice

Heart exists to integrate the ecovillage and intentional communities movement, and to return the voices of its members to the field. We translate across networks and traditions to make the wider movement visible to itself. The magazine is our first artifact.

For the people of the movement

Members, builders, and wisdom-keepers of ecovillages, and the people drawn to community as a human birthright and systemic response to the metacrisis.

Across traditions

Translating between the islands. From Findhorn to Plum Village, Sættedammen to Agartha, making the wider movement visible to itself.

Made by the movement

Practitioners, researchers, and artists from across the movement. Written from inside the field, not from above it.

Heart of Ecovillages was born from a simple conviction: the stories and tools emerging from ecovillages and intentional communities deserved a home of their own.

We document the extraordinary experiments in regenerative living: people building new ways of being and systems to share resources, resolve conflict, grow food, and raise children together.

But the wider movement is also dispersed. From established federations like GEN to emergent networks like Agartha, from legacy ecovillages to extitutional prototypes like Feytopia, beautiful experiments unfold in parallel, often unaware of one another. Each year at the European Ecovillage Gathering, hundreds meet, resonate, and feel briefly held by a larger field. Then everyone returns home to their own island.

Heart exists to address that scattering. The deeper work is to weave the dispersed field into one visible movement, and to return its voices to the people who carry them. We're building a growing media and community ecosystem in service of that intent.

Each issue of our magazine gathers voices from across the movement (practitioners, advocates, researchers, artists) around a single theme. We print slowly, intentionally, and with care.

Want to join the team? Reach out at editor@heartofecovillages.org.

Circle gathering at European Ecovillage Gathering 2013, Switzerland — European Ecovillage Gathering 2013, Switzerland
Photo: Gözde Cüce

Manas Garden, European Ecovillage Gathering 2025
Photo: Sofija Stojanović

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One inbox, many reasons to reach out. Tell us what's burning in your community, suggest a theme, offer a contribution, ask about partnering, or just say hello. We read every message.

Heart is becoming more than a magazine. The wider work includes themed gatherings where the field meets itself, micro-learning around each issue's theme, and a wayfinder pointing readers to the deep knowledge held across the network (Findhorn, Les Pas-Sages, Plum Village, and others). We're building this slowly, with the field. If you want to help shape any of it, this is the door.

Heart of Ecovillages

We uplift
voices of the movement