Our Vision for Nawaya Village

We are in fundraising stages for a larger Nawaya Village, but are currently thrilled to be landing on 10 acres just outside of Cherokee, for our headquarters. This is where our team will co-work, homestead, create, and incubate a handful of our wider Village offerings, including a Food, Art, and Culture Oasis.

  • Nawaya VILLAGE is the larger vision we are working toward: A Whole-systems, Mixed-Use, Regenerative Planned Community in Western North Carolina.

    Our whole-systems, mixed-use approach weaves together home, work, play, and wilderness to co-exist in one, thriving village.

  • It takes a village to make a village

    Nawaya Village will be an intergenerational, multi-cultural community empowering residents with affordable home ownership and access to daily-life essentials, so that we may self-actualize and thrive for generations to come.

  • The purpose of Nawaya Village is to hold a container for cultural reemergence and healing;

    for generations of land stewardship in right relations, in honor of the wisdom of the natural way, and synthesizing with resilience into uncharted future.

“I spend a lot of my time exploring intentional communities as a way of both becoming better stewards of our planet and eliminating poverty. I see in my travels that there are almost no ecovillages / intentional communities in the US or Europe with meaningful populations of BIPOC residents.

When I met the Nawaya family, I saw this was about to change and decided to join the team. For the ecological movement to be real, it has to be ethnically and culturally inclusive, and that is the central aim of Nawaya.”

— Darryl Finkton Jr., member and partner of Nawaya