We design, finance, and build regenerative villages. Homes, food, energy, and water that belong to the people who live there.
A regenerative village heals all three at once. People return to nature, to each other, and to a way of living that costs a fraction of what the old world charged. AI makes it affordable. Community makes it home.
Ready to make the shift? We find your land, design your village, and manage the build from first conversation to move-in day.
Affordable housing with government and community financing already figured out. We carry the project so you don't have to.
Acreage seeking purpose, or capital seeking meaning. We turn both into thriving communities with lasting returns.
Five choices. Two minutes. See the village you'd build.
Bioceramic, fireproof, built for centuries
Modern prefab, shared gardens and spaces
Your own home, land owned together
Affordable forever, never speculated on
Orchards and gardens that feed themselves
Fresh harvest together, all year round
Technology-grown food, any climate
Weekly boxes from the people next door
Caught, filtered, and owned by the village
Plants that clean water naturally
Shared storage, intelligently managed
Protect the source, steward the land
Shared panels and batteries, zero bills
Two sources, total resilience
Every home generates, neighbours share
Local fuel, passive design, simple living
Scraps become soil, soil becomes food
Everything reused, nothing thrown away
Organic waste becomes cooking fuel
Mushrooms that restore the land itself
This is the world you just chose. Now let's build it.
Start with a conversation. End with a village.
Ninety minutes with Jean-Marc, then a written village proposal in your inbox within 48 hours. Twenty years of experience, applied to your land, your people, and your budget.
You bring the land or the capital. We bring everything else: the team, the homes, the financing, the approvals, and the hands that build it. One village per community. We choose our projects carefully.
20 years building communities, raising capital, and connecting the people who make villages real. Kootenays, BC.
LinkedInA decade engineering self-sufficient neighbourhoods across Europe. Energy, water, food, and the AI that runs it all. SmartHoods.
smarthoods.ecoInternational permaculture educator. Designs land that feeds people and heals itself for generations.
kentonzerbin.comWest Kootenay builders of high-performance natural homes since 2008. The hands that raise the village.
ellenwoodhomes.caCertified water system design that works with the land, not against it. Rain harvest, natural treatment, full approvals.
ecowaterstewards.comRegenerative and high-performance construction across BC mountain communities. Decades of craft.
Kootenays, BCBuilds the digital intelligence behind our villages: planning tools, community platforms, and AI that serves people.
Kootenays, BCThe world's only ecovillage travel agency. Visit real communities before you build your own.
ecovillagetours.com250+ seekers matched with their community. The bridge between dreaming about it and living it.
communityfinders.comOne village per community. One conversation to begin.