Best places to live off the grid. Earthaven Where: Black Mountain, N.C., 15 miles east of Asheville. Who lives there: Earthaven includes at least six community-based businesses, including builders, landscapers and farmers. To earn wages, other residents also work as teachers, herbal-medicine providers and woodworkers. Most members are between their 20s and their 70s, says member Diana Leafe Christian, whose mother, 95, is the oldest. Population: About 60 people, who live in 37 residences, which include apartments and stand-alone houses, huts and cabins. Cost: Earthaven has three membership tiers. What makes it special: Earthaven is an independent-income community, "where people pay to join and have their own sources of income and (their) usual monthly and annual expenses, plus community expenses," Leafe Christian says.
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