Every home makes its own power, water, and heat.
Pangea Community is a 322-acre, off-grid regenerative community northwest of Taos, with affordable, workforce and custom homes for families, seniors and all the people of Taos. Biotecture homes, shared farms and open land, governed by the people who live here.
Now accepting inquiries for one- and two-acre homesites.
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See the vision.
A short introduction to Pangea Community: the land, the homes, and the way of living we're building in Taos.
Our mission
Affordable by design.
Taos is becoming harder to live in for the people who make it home. Pangea is built to change that, with homes people can afford to buy and afford to live in, a food system that feeds the community, and a way of living in harmony with the land.
Homes for every budget
Affordable and senior rentals, deed-restricted workforce homes and custom residences, all in the same village.
Low monthly bills
Homes make their own power, water and heat, so there is little or no monthly utility bill.
Work that lowers your dues
Members can earn credit toward up to half of their annual dues by working in the community food system.
Built to last
Durable earthen walls and simple passive systems keep maintenance and replacement costs low for decades.
Living systems
Each home runs as its own utility.
Pangea is off-grid first. The building itself makes its power and collects, stores, treats and reuses its water, and the design keeps you comfortable through a Taos winter without mechanical heating. A community well supplements rainwater, and some locations may have grid power as a backup.
Sun and battery
Solar PV with battery storage on every lot. Grid backup possible in some locations.
Harvested from the roof
Rain and snowmelt collected into on-site cisterns, filtered for household use.
Treated by plants
Greywater is used again for toilets and irrigation. Blackwater is treated in contained botanical cells.
Heated by the sun
South-facing glass, thermal-mass walls and earth cooling tubes regulate temperature year-round.
The land
322 acres, planned as a village of circles.
Homes cluster in circles around shared gardens, leaving the land between them open. The full plan lays out 108 homesites for affordable, workforce and custom homes, with farms, a cultural center, lodging and civic space. The goal is to build it out over approximately 8 years.
Homes & lots
Designed your way. Built to one standard.
Choose one of three home models, Earthship-style, Craftsman-style or Taos adobe-style, from a studio to three bedrooms and up, or commission a fully custom home. Build with Pangea or your own licensed, insured builder. Every home uses earth-based, low-impact materials and passes the same Design Review for passive solar performance, off-grid systems, fire safety and dark skies.
- Tire-rammed earth, adobe and compressed earth block
- Mass inside, insulation outside, for stable indoor temperatures
- Pangea Design Build brings decades of off-grid design and construction. Your own builder is welcome too, if they hold a New Mexico contractor's license, carry insurance naming the LSA, and follow Pangea's guidelines and construction protocols
Food & the work-credit program
Tend the garden. Lower your dues.
Members can earn credit toward up to half of their annual Land Stewardship Association dues by working in the community food system.
That work includes shifts in the walipini greenhouses, packing CSA shares, caring for the animals, and helping in the community kitchen. Credit is logged in the member portal and applied to your Regular Assessment.
Earthship walipinis
Sunken, passive-solar greenhouses growing vegetables, herbs and fruit through the winter.
CSA shares
Members get priority access to shares. Surplus goes to Taos County food-security programs.
Animal synergy
Chickens, goats and rotational grazing build soil and close nutrient loops.
Community kitchen
A commercial-grade kitchen for preserving food, value-added production and shared meals.
Governance
Stewarded by the people who live here.
Every owner is a member of the Pangea Community Land Stewardship Association (LSA), a New Mexico nonprofit mutual-benefit corporation. Each lot has one vote. Members serve on committees for regenerative living, culture, and land, soil and food. Budgets, reserve studies and minutes are open to members.
Culture & place
On land with a living history.
The community sits beside Taos Pueblo. The recorded covenants protect the right of Taos Pueblo members in the traditional rabbit hunt on community land. They also keep a permanent access corridor open that no resident may obstruct. Every new member completes cultural stewardship orientation before closing.
The path to membership
Joining is a mutual decision.
Pangea is a membership community. The process makes sure the land, the systems and the neighbors are a good fit for you, and that you're a good fit for them.
- InquireReceive the Community Overview.
- Talk with usAn introductory call, both ways.
- ApplyMembership application and financial verification.
- Committee reviewProvisional membership decision.
- Select a lotReserve, sign the purchase agreement, open escrow.
- OrientationSystems, governance and cultural stewardship.
- Close & buildDeed recorded, membership issued, Design Review.
News & updates
Follow the build.
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Listen: Jonah Reynolds on the Design Behind Pangea Community
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