Our History
The launch to now
The Verge Cohousing Community was launched in May 2016 by a small group of people with a common dream to live a more connected, collaborative, and eco-friendly lifestyle. Since then we have been gathering regularly to build relationships and holding regular information sessions to share our vision. Our monthly Getting It Built meetings have created essential policies, developed an architectural brief for our building(s), identified our legal entity, begun our financial modelling.
The story of our name
The Verge is not just a fashionable name. For us, The Verge is a melding of multiple meanings. Traditionally, the verge is the open area between a house its street. It's a place where neighbours meet, share the supervision of kids running about, and a place to connect over life's every day happenings; it is a quintessentially neighbourly place to hang out and support one another. More recently in permaculture, the verge is the 'leading edge'; the new ground of a developing, productive garden. In Regenerative Design the verge is the forefront of restorative social and ecological systems. To us, The Verge is all these things and more.
The story of our logo
We love our logo as it translates our Vision and Mission into a beautiful metaphor. The idea of the beehive image originally came from a 7 year old community member as he thought out loud about what community is like for him. The image was created by local graphic designer Alicia Parsons.
We imagine our community to be like that of a beehive where we come together inclusively and collaboratively to nurture and support each other in relationship with our local neighbourhood. Our shared core values are at the heart of our community, like a queen bee.
A bee hive is both a house and a community, built by those who live there. It is shelter that is natural in form and function. The honey is the nourishment that we collectively create and partake of; that sustains us. The bees collaborate for the good of the whole, functioning within the natural rhythms of the seasons and their local environment. The bees go out into the world and enrich the natural environment, and we hope that our community will encourage other establishing communities. The large opening at the front of the hive represents our commitment to being bringers of the new (the verge), and being welcoming.
Now that you have read about our history, you can explore the nuts and bolts of what are building together.
The Verge Cohousing Community was launched in May 2016 by a small group of people with a common dream to live a more connected, collaborative, and eco-friendly lifestyle. Since then we have been gathering regularly to build relationships and holding regular information sessions to share our vision. Our monthly Getting It Built meetings have created essential policies, developed an architectural brief for our building(s), identified our legal entity, begun our financial modelling.
The story of our name
The Verge is not just a fashionable name. For us, The Verge is a melding of multiple meanings. Traditionally, the verge is the open area between a house its street. It's a place where neighbours meet, share the supervision of kids running about, and a place to connect over life's every day happenings; it is a quintessentially neighbourly place to hang out and support one another. More recently in permaculture, the verge is the 'leading edge'; the new ground of a developing, productive garden. In Regenerative Design the verge is the forefront of restorative social and ecological systems. To us, The Verge is all these things and more.
The story of our logo
We love our logo as it translates our Vision and Mission into a beautiful metaphor. The idea of the beehive image originally came from a 7 year old community member as he thought out loud about what community is like for him. The image was created by local graphic designer Alicia Parsons.
We imagine our community to be like that of a beehive where we come together inclusively and collaboratively to nurture and support each other in relationship with our local neighbourhood. Our shared core values are at the heart of our community, like a queen bee.
A bee hive is both a house and a community, built by those who live there. It is shelter that is natural in form and function. The honey is the nourishment that we collectively create and partake of; that sustains us. The bees collaborate for the good of the whole, functioning within the natural rhythms of the seasons and their local environment. The bees go out into the world and enrich the natural environment, and we hope that our community will encourage other establishing communities. The large opening at the front of the hive represents our commitment to being bringers of the new (the verge), and being welcoming.
Now that you have read about our history, you can explore the nuts and bolts of what are building together.