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The Berkeley Farmhouse is a cooperative community dedicated to shared living, mutual support, affordable housing and responsible stewardship of our home in South Berkeley.
With twenty residents and two dogs, we are a diverse community of teachers, students, scientists, artists, lawyers, community organizers, gardeners, healers, and more—mostly in our 30s and 40s—from all over California (including East Bay & Berkeley locals), the U.S., and the world.
Our Community
Our Community
We share labor, resources, and decision-making to create an equitable and affordable living environment. Through collaboration and accountability, we support one another’s growth, well-being, and sense of belonging.
We have shared dinners four times a week, with rotating cooking and cleaning shifts. Our collective pools money to purchase our groceries, cleaning supplies, and other house goods from local farmers at the Berkeley Farmers' Market, Berkeley Bowl, and Bicycle Coffee, bulk wholesalers like Fowler Brothers and Azure Standard, and Costco. We make decisions together with a modified consensus system through biweekly house meetings.
Collective living allows greater capacity for community care which we practice through organizing meal trains for housemates that are injured or ill, creating structures for keeping each other safe during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, address and tranform conflict, and celebrate each other through birthday and theme dinners, community concerts, film screenings, and other house events.
The Farmhouse has provided community-oriented housing rooted in cooperation and care for over ten years in its current iteration, and for decades as different collectives.
Originally built in the 1880s, the house has evolved alongside the city of Berkeley itself—shifting from a private residence to apartments, to a religious organization, to a commune, and to various community-serving uses over the decades.
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