Berkeley Cohousing (un)Common Meal:BBQ wrapping National Open House Day

Wrap up National Cohousing Open House Day, joining Betsy Morris and Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coaches and EBCOHO organizers, with area community seekers and residents of an area cohousing neighborhood, to together prepare a community meal/BBQ at Berkeley Cohousing, now celebrating a quarter century as a community.

At an (un)Common Meal, we take over a cohousing Common House kitchen on an "off" night and prepare our own Common Meal together; some members of the community may join us to eat it. The shopping will already be done, but we'll get to cook and clean and learn together, discovering the joys and challenges of feeding a group of diverse humans with unique needs, and cleaning up afterwards.

Schedule for the evening:

5 PM Cooks arrive and start prepping dinner, under the guidance of a community member
(we take care of the meal planning & shopping)

6 PM Cleaners arrive and get to visit a home or two.

6:30 PM Break to eat and share stories of the day

7:00 PM Cleaners start cleaning, cooks continue discussion
(cleaners can rejoin when they're done)

8:00 PM Wrap-up and go home.

Note: Everybody is either a cook or a cleaner. If you arrive too late to cook, you're a cleaner. Don't worry if you haven't cooked for a group before, we'll have plenty of experienced hands on hand, and the right tools in the Common House kitchen to make it fun and easy.

We'll take turns, with one group cooking while another socializes, take time to eat together, and then the cooks get to relax while the cleaners cleans up.

Advance registration required, so we can shop and prepare. We always use local organic ingredients to the extent available, and offer alternatives to accommodate a wide variety of dietary needs.

Important note: the listed placeholder location is NOT the property address, we send the actual address only when you register, to protect the privacy of community residents.

This dinner is included for participants on the van tour; everybody else needs to register on this page to get the address.