Happy cattle in the pasture enjoying the early-morning light.

Farm produce growing in our irrigated pastureland.

Our Land
​We’re blessed to live on 361 acres of really beautiful land in southwest Colorado, where the Rocky Mountains meet the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau.  We choose to live here because of the quality of life this area provides – a very safe, close-knit community surrounded by endless mountains, forests, and canyons to explore.

It's peaceful and quiet here. Sometimes we hear frogs, crickets, and wind in the trees, but mostly we hear quiet. We smell sage and pine after it rains. We see deer, elk, wild turkeys, sunsets, and star-filled night skies.

At an elevation of 7,000 feet, we enjoy a four season climate with over 300 days of sunshine per year. We straddle two distinct southern Rocky Mountain life zones: Pinon-Sage-Juniper Woodlands (generally between 5,000 ft and 7,000 ft) and Ponderosa Pine Forests (generally between 7,000 ft and 9,000 ft). And because we also have irrigation water on our land, we enjoy quite a variety of trees, grasses, flowers, crops, wildlife, and domestic animals.

​Our 24 homes are clustered along a pedestrian pathway on just a few acres in the middle of our land. At the center of our neighborhood is our Common House and terrace, Village Green, and kids’ play structure. On the edge of the cluster are our parking lots, workshop, play field, dome greenhouse, orchard, gardens, henhouse, and trailheads to our 7 miles of trails for walking, running, horseback riding, XC skiing, snowshoeing, and biking. A short walk through the Village Green and into the woods brings you to the hot tub. Walk a few minutes to the northeast and you come to the tennis, pickleball, and basketball court. To the southwest in the Ponderosa Pine Forest is the yurt and sledding hill. Just up Raven Ridge are the bonfire circle, labyrinth, and prayer circle.
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We are fortunate to have so much so close and convenient. Young kids can safely run out and play on the play structure in the middle of our neighborhood or go off into the woods to explore. It's a very short walk to the greenhouse to harvest greens, herbs, tomatoes, and all manner of fresh veggies. 

See the site map of the cluster at right and the panoramic photo below for more details.

Click here for a map of Heartwood Trails.

Panoramic view of some of our land and shared amenities.

The hub of the community, our Common House.

Housing cluster nestled into the pinon, juniper, and ponderosa pine forests.

Our Shared Amenities
Because we pool our resources, we are able to afford many more amenities than any of us could individually.

• 350 acres of forest and irrigated pastureland open space
• ​4,000-square foot Common House with commercial-size kitchen, dining room, guest rooms, rec room with ping pong table, exercise room, library, local food store, Free Box (our own little thrift store give-away), 1,000- square-foot terrace, and more
  
• community water wells, landscape irrigation system, and septic system
• 800-square-foot yurt
• Village Green with its children’s play structure, fondly known as the S.S. Ponderosa
• 800-square-foot organic greenhouse, raised beds, and irrigated gardens
• 50 Mbps high-speed internet available
• 90-HP tractor, aka Lucy
• henhouse
• barn, hay storage, tack room
• 1,000-square-foot workshop
• hot tub
• 7 miles of trails
• tennis, pickleball, & basketball court
• play field
• sledding hill
• bonfire circle
• labyrinth
• prayer circle

​We enjoy an incredibly rich community life located on a beautiful piece of land for the same amount of money that we’d spend to live on just a few isolated acres in the country or on a tiny lot in town.

To see lots more photos of our shared amenities, check out the Places page of our Photo Gallery.

Tamale-making party in the Common House kitchen.

A game of freeze tag at the SS Ponderosa, our fabulous kids' play structure.

Heartwood Lounge and Racquet Club. Maybe the most delightful tennis, basketball, and pickleball court in the world.

A fire circle under a dark, starry sky.