Since January, TikTok users have seen videos about a commune in Tennessee on their For You pages. The Garden is a 12-year-old collective-living community focusing on a "low impact" lifestyle. Members ...

Upon a manicured lawn deep in the Texas countryside, 12 small homes sit under the warm sun. The residents who call this exclusive, gated community home live an idyllic life, complete with fire pits, ...

HARDWICK, Mass. As fall shifts into winter in Hardwick, Massachusetts, temperatures are unseasonably high for November, and a 34-acre community built by a homesteading couple nearly four decades ago ...

Back in the 1970s, the North Country was a hotspot for the back-to-the-land movement. Hippies abandoned city life to homestead in the country. Hundreds of communes and intentional communities sprung ...

Kristen Ghodsee, author of Everyday Utopia, talks about the benefits of communal living—or at least of embracing a broader definition of community. If you buy something using links in our stories, we ...

This essay was originally published in Salon on June 26, 2021. We're revisiting Salon's Best Life Stories of 2021 now through the end of the year. Read more Best of 2021 here. The only time I saw ...

Kate Riley’s ambitious début novel, “Ruth,” opens in 1963, the year that its protagonist, Ruth Scholl, is born into a scrupulously managed Christian commune in Michigan. She grows up with two brothers ...