Casa Verde Happenings

Parents Night Out!

2010-11-19T08:26:00.000-08:00

One of our very popular events at Casa Verde is Parents Night Out. Recently, 11 children came to the Common House for the evening while their lucky parents had the opportunity for a night out on the town. The older children went to a movie with a couple of the volunteers, while the 5 younger ones stayed with the 5 "grandmothers," who are always ready to hold an infant or play with a toddler. Here they are watching Curious George together.

Thank you so much to the evening's volunteers for making this happen! We appreciate you.

Colorado Springs Cohousing | What Is Cohousing?

2010-06-17T07:28:00.000-07:00

Colorado cohousing has been featured in the news recently, with the 2010 National Cohousing Conference being held in Boulder on June 18-20. You can follow this link to watch a video about the cohousing concept, which aims to create better neighborhoods focused on safety and community, rather than privacy. Learn what cohousing is all about!

Tie-Dye Event

2009-06-15T07:03:00.000-07:00

Kids and adults all had lots of fun at our tie-dye event this weekend as we dyed shirts to wear at our upcoming annual campout.

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In Tough Economic Times, Cohousing Makes Sense

2009-06-11T09:44:00.000-07:00

An article published yesterday in the New York Times gives a great overview of the economic and social benefits of living in cohousing. Shared community meals, ready social activities and nearby playmates for the children are just a few of the many reasons to choose cohousing. Read the entire article here.

Purls of Wisdom

2009-01-17T10:06:00.000-08:00

Here at CVC there is a group of women who get together twice a month to knit, crochet or do needle point while we visit together. We call ourselves the Purls of Wisdom since we are all getting to the age of wise old women. However we have been called the Naughty Knitters by one of our younger neighbors!

It happens that right now all of us are grandmothers so many of our projects are gifts for our grandchildren. However even with grandchildren to knit for, we find that we have more desire to knit than we have family members to give the finished projects to. So we looked for other people for whom we could knit.

Another neighbor is a social worker in Colorado Springs who works with children who are placed in foster care. We have made small afghans and quilts for these children.

We found a program called Afghans for Afghanistan through the internet and in a book called KNITTING FOR PEACE. The goal of the program is for American women to make wool items which will be sent to Afghani women for their families.

Here is the afghan that the CVC knitting group made together during 2008. All the yarn is leftover from other projects. It turned out to be a great way to use up those odd skeins of yarn and, we think, made a beautiful afghan. It is made of wool yarn in dark colors and contains no images which could be offensive to Islamic people, all of which are requirements for the Afghans to Afghanistan project. We also made a sweater and many baby hats which will be sent with the afghan.

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Top 10 Green Cohousing Developments

2008-12-13T13:18:00.000-08:00

We are excited to announce that Natural Home magazine has listed Casa Verde Commons in Colorado Springs as one of the top 10 green cohousing developments in the country! Read the article.

Camp Casa Verde

2008-08-10T12:00:00.000-07:00

All the kids at Casa Verde look forward with great anticipation to our annual campout, when we pitch tents on the large grassy spot outside of our common house. This year was our fourth campout, and was the best one yet. A downpour after the tents were setup didn't dampen spirits at all, and it cleared up nicely for our campfire, with singing, laughing, and of course ... SMORES!

Free Summer Concerts

2008-07-30T21:05:00.000-07:00

One of the most popular summer activities in town is the series of free Wednesday night concerts at America the Beautiful Park. The park is a short drive or an easy bike ride from Casa Verde.

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Knitters Welcome!

2008-06-12T19:09:00.000-07:00

"Purls of Wisdom" is a group of Casa Verde grannies and soon-to-be grannies who get together once every other week to chat and knit. (Okay, so non-grannies are welcome, too!) They've been working on creations to welcome all the new grandkids, as well as making beautiful creations for Afghans for Afghans, a humanitarian and educational people-to-people project that sends hand-knit and crocheted blankets and sweaters, vests, hats, mittens, and socks to the beleaguered people of Afghanistan.

Colorado Springs Cohousing: www.casaverde.us