A family compound for generations
Fifty to a hundred people. One piece of land. Homes you own, systems you share, and an inheritance that doesn't get sold to settle the estate.
Together we build · Together we thrive · Together we rise
Land held in common. Homes raised by the hands that will live in them.
Food, water and power we produce ourselves. Cost carried by many, not one.
An asset our children inherit whole — not one they have to buy back.
Homes around a commons, growing space in the middle, power and water on the edge, and a perimeter that watches itself. Scroll, or tap a stage, to fly through it.
Solar arrays with battery storage carry the base load. Turbines pick up the night and the winter. Wells, catchment and filtration mean the water bill is a pump and a filter.
Raised beds and greenhouses stretch the season on both ends. The wellness barn sits where the noise doesn't reach. The commons kitchen is a short walk from every door.
Drones cover the far corners in under two minutes. Patrol units walk the tree line at night with thermal eyes. The response team is people who live here, not a contract.
Learn the model. Join the network. Build what your family and your community can stand on. Phase One collected interest and produced a real roster; Phase Two lets you experience the model, enter the network, and choose a concrete way to contribute.
Job: turn F.A.C.T.S. from an explanation into an experience.
Balance Food, Art, Clothes, Tech, Shelter and Unity. Reserves drain, crisis conditions arrive, and the weak systems show themselves — the fastest way to understand why culture and cooperation are survival resources.
Handoff: “Now find your real role.”
Job: convert interest into structured participation.
Fifty state hubs, founding teams of ten, activation levels, twenty-one ways to serve, and verification every ninety days. You are placed by state, skill and capacity — not by who you know.
Handoff: assessment, orientation, and state-hub placement.
Job: show a tangible, place-based expression of the vision.
A fifty-to-a-hundred-person family compound: shared systems, six pillars, a savings calculator you can argue with, and a founding-family process that runs on qualification and discovery.
Handoff: qualification and discovery — not an automatic commitment.
Every group leaves orientation with one interim coordinator, one thirty-day deliverable, one meeting rhythm and one documented contribution. Coordinators organize the work; they don't own the group.
Rent goes up every year and buys nothing. Groceries cost more for less. The power bill arrives whether the grid holds or not. And the people who would have been our neighbors are scattered across four states.
None of that requires a conspiracy to explain. It's what happens when housing, food and energy all run through systems we don't own and can't influence — and when families stop living within reach of each other.
Barnarium is the practical answer. One piece of land. Families who choose each other on purpose. Housing, food, water and power produced on site and paid for once. What gets built stays in the family, and the family stays in one place.
Wells, solar arrays, greenhouses and heavy equipment are ruinous for one household and reasonable for forty.
The carpenter, the nurse, the mechanic, the grower and the teacher live inside the gate instead of across town.
Grandparents and grandchildren on the same land is the oldest arrangement there is. It also happens to be the cheapest.
Structured so what we build transfers to the next generation intact rather than being liquidated to settle it.
Not a wish list. Six systems that have to work together, or the whole thing leans.
Independent of municipal water, sewer and power by design — not as a last resort when something fails. Every system has a backup, and every backup has been tested.
Solar arrays with battery storage, generator backup, and a load plan that keeps the wells, cold storage and medical equipment running through anything.
Your own front door, your own walls, your own quiet. Then a commons big enough that nobody has to host a hundred people in their living room.
Wells and filtration, gardens and greenhouses, livestock where it makes sense, and enough preserved storage to cover a bad season without a grocery run.
Perimeter awareness, connectivity that doesn't depend on a single provider, and a trained response plan — run by residents, not contractors.
Ownership structure, maintenance funding and succession decided before the first foundation is poured — so year thirty works as well as year one.
Enter what you pay today. The right-hand column is what we estimate the same line costs inside Barnarium — every estimate is editable and the reasoning is one click away. Every figure it produces is a projection, not a promise — a model you can argue with.
Same idea as dollar-cost averaging: a fixed amount every month, whatever the market is doing. Put the monthly saving into a shared land-and-maintenance fund and this is what it becomes.
Illustration only. Returns are not guaranteed, the fund structure is a structure-and-site decision, and nothing here is financial advice. The point is the shape: a household that stops paying for what the compound provides has a monthly figure to build with.
Six kinds of space on one parcel — each one earning its footprint.
Beautifully designed barn homes with real privacy and comfort. Sound separation, private outdoor space, and a door that closes on the day.
Gather, connect and celebrate in rooms built to hold everybody: the great hall, the kitchen, the porch that runs the length of the barn.
Grow food, cultivate wellness and live in rhythm with the season. Beds, orchard, and covered growing that stretches the calendar on both ends.
Rest, rejuvenate and reconnect in mind, body and spirit. Movement space, treatment rooms, sauna and cold plunge, and somewhere quiet to sit.
Workshops, studios and maker spaces to build ideas and income. Wood, metal, textiles, recording, and a room with good light for whatever comes next.
Sustainable by design. Built for today, tomorrow, and the generations who will know this land as the place they're from.
Three systems that let a small community cover a large parcel — safely, and without a security contract.
Surveillance, supply delivery and land monitoring. Crop and herd checks, fence-line inspection, and eyes on the far corner of the property in under two minutes.
Perimeter patrol, threat detection and night security. Scheduled routes with thermal awareness, so nobody is walking the tree line alone at 3 a.m.
Land mobility, maintenance and emergency response. Hauling, trail upkeep, and the fastest way to get a person or a pump where it's needed.
Aircraft-mounted lasers have already scanned nearly every acre of the United States, and the data is free. LiDARch turns that raw point cloud into a bare-earth terrain model and four archaeological views that show what a parcel really is under the brush: old field lines, drainage, mounds, roads, wells, filled ditches. Every site we consider in the structure-and-site phase gets this treatment before anyone signs.
Our own build of the workflow, made so a non-expert can run it. Point it at a folder of LiDAR tiles, press Start processing, and it reads the tiles, finds the ground, builds the terrain model, merges the cloud and renders the four views — with a progress bar, plain-language errors, a tool check, and a report you can open in any browser. Nothing else to install: no QGIS, no SAGA, no plugins. USGS tiles already carry ground classes and LandScan uses them; other tiles go through its built-in ground filter.
Windows 10/11 or macOS, 8 GB RAM. Open source, MIT. Built on the Relief Visualization Toolbox algorithms (ZRC SAZU) and the LiDARch workflow by M. Carrero-Pazos — whose original Windows app is at github.com/MCarreroPazos/LiDARch. Optional: point LandScan at LAStools to classify unclassified tiles with lasground.
The federal 3DEP program publishes LiDAR for most of the country, Florida included, at no cost. Draw a box around the parcel, choose Elevation Source Data (3DEP) – Lidar Point Cloud (LPC), and download the LAZ tiles into one folder. That folder is what LandScan takes as input.
Tiles are usually 1 km squares of 50–300 MB each. A 100-acre parcel is typically one to four tiles. Keep the LAZ files together; the app handles the rest.
Sunlight from a set angle (315° by default). The familiar relief picture — slopes, terraces, the big shape of the land. Good first look, weak on subtle features.
Subtracts the broad landform and leaves only small bumps and dips. This is where old plough lines, house platforms, filled ditches and pathways appear.
How much sky each point can see. Hollows and enclosures go dark, ridges go bright, regardless of light direction — reliable for finding sunken features.
How much each point overlooks its neighbours. Picks out low mounds, banks and embankments that hillshade flattens out.
LandScan_[date]/ ├── terrain/terrain_model.tif bare-earth model (+ .png preview) ├── visualizations/ │ ├── hillshade.tif (+ .png) │ ├── local_relief_model.tif │ ├── sky_view_factor.tif │ └── local_dominance.tif ├── point_cloud/ground_merged.las one ground point cloud ├── report.html every view + the report, in a browser └── technical_report.txt what ran, with what settings
Open the GeoTIFFs in QGIS (free) or any GIS viewer and lay them over the parcel boundary. We look for three things: water (where it drains, where it pools, old channels), the built past (foundations, wells, roads, cemeteries — anything a title search misses), and buildable ground (the flat, dry, quietly overlooked spots for homes and the commons barn). The report and the four views go into the site file that the founding families review together.
Every GeoTIFF gets a PNG preview, so the views open on any phone or laptop without GIS software. Public LiDAR shows what was there on the flight date, not today — walk the land too.
Every named spring in the United States — 35,000 of them from the USGS names database — plus the ones our members have walked to and verified. Search by name or state, or let the map find the springs nearest you.
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Spring water is untreated. Test before you drink, respect private land and posted rules, and leave the source cleaner than you found it. USGS names mark where a spring is recorded, not whether it still flows. Know a spring we're missing? Send it in →
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Nothing here is hidden. This is exactly where the initiative stands today.
Phase One collected interest and produced a finalized roster of 105 people. Verification and the signed member assessment continue, and new interest is still welcome — no money changed hands, and none does at this stage.
Three connected experiences go public together: the C.U.I. game to learn the model, the Common Unity network to join by state and skill, and Barnarium as the place-based pathway. Eight working groups start thirty-day cycles, and a progress report is published at the end of each one.
Set the legal and financial structure — how the land is held, how residents buy in, how decisions get made — then search for and secure the parcel that fits the plan.
Infrastructure before architecture: access roads, wells, septic, solar. Then the commons barn, then the homes — sequenced so the first families can move in while the rest is still going up.
Full occupancy, working systems, and the part that matters most: succession. The compound is designed to outlive everyone who builds it.
Better to find out now than three years in.
Four boundaries we hold in public, so nobody has to guess what this is and isn't.
We collect only what operations need. Location, readiness, skills and contact details are shared only with your consent, and directory records are re-verified every ninety days.
Common Unity supports preparedness and coordination. It does not replace professional emergency services, and nobody should rely on the network in place of them.
Every calculator output on this page is a projection with documented assumptions, not a guarantee. Entity, budget, approval, receipt, refund and reporting controls are established before any fundraising.
Vision, qualification, research, negotiation and ownership are five different things. Network membership does not confer Barnarium admission or any property rights.
No. Phase One gathered the founding roster and Phase Two is about learning, joining and building the network; the land search belongs to the structure-and-site phase. We're direct about that because the sequence matters: the size and location of the parcel should be decided by who is actually committed, not the other way around.
Nothing. Joining collects contact information and understands what each household brings and needs. No membership fee, no subscription, no deposit at this stage. When financial commitment does become part of it, the structure and the numbers go in front of you in writing before anyone is asked for anything.
No, and we keep the two separate on purpose. The network is how people learn the model, get placed by state and skill, and do real work in a working group. Barnarium is a separate qualification and discovery process for founding families — needs, assumptions, risks and next research, documented together. Network membership does not confer admission or property rights.
Understanding. You manage Food, Art, Clothes, Tech, Shelter and Unity as reserves drain and a crisis exposes whichever system you neglected. Ten minutes in it explains F.A.C.T.S. better than a page of text, and it ends with the only next step that matters: find your real role.
Undecided. The intake form asks where you are and how far you'd move, and that data drives the search. Realistically we're looking for acreage with good water, workable soil, reasonable access, and a county that permits what we intend to build. Regional clustering in the responses will point to a shortlist.
That's the central structure-and-site question, and it gets answered with attorneys rather than optimism. The models on the table — an LLC with member units, a cooperative, a community land trust, or a condominium-style regime over a common parcel — each handle financing, resale and inheritance differently. Whatever is chosen has to survive someone dying, someone divorcing, and someone wanting out, because over decades all three will happen.
No. Households own their homes and their income. What's held in common is the land and the shared infrastructure — the same arrangement a condominium or a homeowners association uses, applied to a working off-grid property. Nobody pools their paycheck.
A community of a hundred people needs far more than builders. Teaching, childcare, food production and preservation, bookkeeping, healthcare, logistics, cooking, mediation, IT, equipment maintenance and capital all matter. The form asks what you bring so the gaps show up early.
Small enough that everyone knows everyone and consensus is still possible; large enough to carry the cost of wells, solar, equipment and shared buildings. Below about fifty the infrastructure math gets punishing per household. Above a hundred it stops being a family compound and starts being a subdivision that needs a bureaucracy.
In thirty-day cycles. Phase Two runs on a scorecard — roster verification, completed assessments, active contributors, one verified state-hub founding team, three ecosystem pilots — and a progress report is published at the end of each cycle. Everyone on the list gets the same updates at the same time, including the ones where the answer is "still working on it."
The five commitments the Common Unity Initiative is measured against.
The unit we build around. Every decision is tested against what it does to households.
Plans are cheap. Phases have dates, owners, and things you can point at.
Chosen, not assumed. People who agreed to be responsible to each other.
A different relationship to land, food, power and time — not a nicer version of the current one.
Measured in what the next generation receives, not in what we can show this year.
Join by state, skill and capacity. The founding group for Barnarium is fifty to a hundred people and it gets assembled once — joining the network is how you get seen, and a separate qualification decides who builds.
No fee · No obligation · Only what operations need · Re-verified every 90 days
Tell us who you are, what you bring, which working group fits you, and how far you'd move. You'll be placed toward a state hub and hear directly as each thirty-day cycle reports out.