Meaningful work and making a living are vital aspects of residential life in EcoVillage at Ithaca. The energy, passion and creativity we bring to our community is also applied to our careers and vocations as educators, healers, growers, software engineers, legal and financial professionals, artists, writers, entrepreneurs and more.
Meaningful work and making a living are vital aspects of residential life in EcoVillage at Ithaca. The energy, passion and creativity we bring to our community is also applied to our careers and vocations as educators, healers, growers, software engineers, legal and financial professionals, artists, writers, entrepreneurs and more.
Unlike some intentional communities, EcoVillage at Ithaca does not operate a shared commercial business enterprise in which residents work. Rather, our villagers have jobs, operate small businesses and professional practices, and do substantial work as volunteers. About 45% of us work from home, onsite on farms, or in offices built within the Common Houses.
Browse the business listings and links below. Share in our livelihoods, and consider your own, by visiting a bed & breakfast, taking music lessons, buying handcrafts, or consulting with a lawyer, financial advisor, healer, therapist, marketer, designer or other professional.
Resident-Owned Businesses (alphabetical order):
Alan Willett, Oxseeker Consulting – Organizational development and leadership training for the software industry
Being Change – Weaving the Great Turning through circles, art and story
Carpenter – Otto Ottoson, 607-277-0589
Chris White – jazz, improvisational and classical cellist, cello teacher, and founder-director of New Directions Cello Association and Festival
Consult-Design-Build – homes and whole communities – Rod Lambert, 607 275 3362
Clear Light Communication – For photos, videos and text with integrity, focus and clarity
Elizabeth Salon – Family Nurse Practitioner, Integrative Health; elizabethsalon-np.com, elizasalon.np@gmail.com, 607-277-2201
Entos Press – Publisher of Wayne Gustafson’s novels, photographs, and original notecards
Frog’s Way Bed & Breakfast – B&B at EcoVillage (in SoNG)
Gourdlandia – Homegrown organic lamps and functional gourd art by Graham Ottoson
Hendel Acupuncture – Shaul Hendel, a practitioner of acupuncture with 25 years experience; hendelacupuncture@gmail.com; 607-252-6702
Ithaca Piano – Piano lessons by Chieko Pipa
Jayleigh Art – Art classes, fine art for sale, mandalas
Jennifer Whitaker, LMT – Specializing in trigger point therapy and pain relief; 607-201-4926
Jonna Climie – Massage and certified Healing Touch energy work practitioner
Kestrel Perch Berries – U-pick CSA berry farm at EcoVillage Ithaca
Lifestyle Eating – Personal Chef Catering, Chef-Prepared Take-Out Meals, Comprehensive meal planning. www.lifestyleeating.com
Lorraine Faehndrich, Radiant Life Design – Mind Body Coaching and Mentoring for women struggling with chronic pelvic and sexual pain
Moving Through It – Yoga & dance/movement psychotherapy for moving with life; Cheryl Delaney, MA, BC-DMT, LCAT, www.movingthroughitny.com, 607-288-3366
Muskrat Studio – Framed photographic prints and digital art
Port Bay Travel – custom, escorted tours, and specializing in school trips
Rachael Shapiro – Therapist
SOUNDSWELL – Audio and video production services
Sustena Life Club – Japanese language eco-tours and EcoVillage Ithaca homestays
Sagework – Suzanne Kates – Massage & Reiki, specializing in Elders
Swallow’s Nest Bed & Breakfast – An organic B&B at EcoVillage Ithaca (in SoNG)
Sustainable Living Associates – Education, Facilitation, Consulting. Elan Shapiro, 607-592-8402
True-Blue Editing – developmental editing, copyediting, proofreading; Christine Schmidt
Tutoring in Writing, Reading, and the Humanities – Valorie Rockney, 607-272-4921
West Haven Farm – Organic vegetable CSA farm at EcoVillage Ithaca