About Threshold Village
Threshold Village is a new intentional community based on 3.6 acres of forest and gardens in Montpelier Vermont in an 8,000 square foot recently renovated mansion from 1907. We began development in 2023 and opened to residents in 2026. We are owned by our founder, Tom Stearns, through an L3C (low-profit, mission based company) founded for this project. We are exploring how membership in Threshold Community L3C can become available to long-term residents.
We aim to re-learn and dismantle unhealthy cultural norms through celebrating our radical aliveness, authentically relating to one another and supporting our free expression. Read more in our Core Values and Agreements.
Residents simply make a monthly membership contribution and join together as a full community and in smaller groups for shared decision making about our home.
We are less than a 10 minute walk to downtown with over 20 restaurants, bars, live music and locally owned shops. And surrounded by mountains, waterfalls and hundreds of small farms.
In our main home we have 12 rooms (1 ADA) including half with private bathrooms. Many are spacious and are suitable for more than 1 person. We share abundant and beautiful common areas including a large living room/dance space, kitchen, dining room, co-working space and smaller lounges, totaling over 3,000 square feet.
In addition to the private bathrooms, we have five shared bathrooms (1 ADA) including a third floor spa which includes a multi-person soaking tub, cold plunge, infra-red sauna and rain flow shower.
Membership at Threshold Village
At Threshold Village we know that economic class, personal finances and access to capital in our current and historical capitalist system is grossly unfair, discriminatory and contributes to long-term poverty for many marginalized groups. And our U.S. system also provides opportunities in an unbalanced way that contribute to wealth accumulation or security for other groups. And much wealth has been historically built and accumulated through exploitation of others (slavery) or the planet (mining). Safe housing and clean food are not available to everyone and require monetary resources that are not always there. Our desire is to have Threshold be accessible for all who are deeply aligned with and ready to contribute to our radical vision, while continuing to meet our financial obligations. And we want to begin to de-couple the transactional nature of paying money for housing and food. We’re approaching this in a bold way - a three-tiered sliding scale membership system covering all housing, access to amazing common areas like our movement studio and spa, all utilities, basic pantry supplies, abundant veggies from our farm, incredible workshops and trainings and a shared electric vehicle. It is not rent and there isn’t a landlord. We each freely and joyfully give to support our collective life together. Some of us pay below the cost and some above. We honor these differences and trust each other to decide the level in which we each contribute. Money is a powerful substance and we want to transmute it into something very different than simply the tool of capitalistic damage. It is actually something sacred. It is a primary way that we care for our home and land and each other. Yes, a big chunk goes to our credit union for lending us the money to get started. And within the broken system of capitalism, we are still grateful for the risk that they have taken on this very unconventional project. We strive toward an ethic of redistribution of wealth and towards a system that recognizes that financial oppression continues everywhere. We seek ways to authentically approach this big topic and are always learning. We hope that this system will create a feeling of abundance for all and re-wire the oppressive class dynamics, scarcity and financial insecurity that have existed for many of us.
We hope to share lots of meals together including saving money through group food budgeting and purchasing as well as collective meal prep. Several possibilities exist for different communal food fees to help us eat well and affordably beyond the basic pantry and farm veggies covered in Membership.
We are a farm that aims to grow 50%+ of our vegetables, including eventually having a large greenhouse and indoor winter growing.
We have a community meeting each week as well as committees for various aspects of co-living. Each resident can choose one or more committees to be a part of.
While not a sober house, we are also not a substance-focused house. We really love to celebrate with regular gatherings, dances, ceremonies etc.
We hope to eventually be set up for young families but our occupancy rules and the financial realities of startup mean that we are adult-only (21+) at the moment.
We hope to host regular workshops, classes, and retreats for each other and the broader community. We encourage residents and community members to host aligned events here.
