Guest tending ornamental plants
Hildegard and guest in Herb Garden
Kaweah building, residence and more
Nashoba residence building
Oneida & TaChai buildings, Herb Garden
Guest tending Courtyard ornamental garden
Guest Joan hanging communal clothing laundry
Herb Garden and TaChai building
Guest Joan hanging communal clothing laundry
Harmony woodshop, art over door
Art created and displayed here
Harmony building and clothesline
Solar electricity array in Central field, built in 2010
Chicken program structures
Aurora visitor program house
Outdoor dining table group.
Ex-member guest Rayne preparing dinner in Zhankoye kitchen
Aram preparing dinner in Zhankoye kitchen
Visitor tour: a group of visitors on a walking tour of Twin Oaks' 450 acres.
Zhankoye kitchen and dining building
Outdoor meal: at picnic tables outside Zhankoye (main dining hall.)
Harvested foods: fall harvest from our organic vegetable gardens.
Feeding calf: a calf is fed as part of the Dairy Program. Female calves become milk cows, male calves become beef.
Cheese making (non-commercial, home consumption): collecting curds in the cheese making process. Milk comes from Twin Oaks dairy cow herd.
Garden activity: plants carted post-harvest to compost pile.
Communications: the "3 by 5" board, an internal communication system which uses index cards for posting public notices.
Weaving a hammock: a Twin Oaks member weaving a hammock, listening to music on a headset. [Photo by Noah.]
Our car-sharing sign-out system.
Many hands make light work while raising trusses on a new
residence.
Changing the tilt of the solar panels on our off-the-grid
residence. We do this 4 times a year to get maximum sunlight exposure
to the panels.
June 16, 1967 is the day we moved onto the land. (note
authentic vintage VW bug!)
Hammocks has been one of our main collective businesses since the early 1970's, pictured here.
The workshop in which we made wooden stretcher bars for our hammocks business, circa 1975.
The Garden Crew enjoying their work.
Processing to dance the May Pole
Preparing to dance the May Pole.
Tony and Paul cooking Sunday Dinner
The Garden Managers Brittany and Wren with our abundant crop of
lettuce.
Gardeners harvesting crops with hoophouse in the background.
View of the Oneida residence where 18 members live.
A view of the Oneida residence in the Community Courtyard
Cook: a member prepares dinner at our main kitchen-dining building (Zhankoye).
Sauna: wood-fired sauna next to the swimming pond.
Hammock business: a member transports fabric hammocks to storage in our warehouse.
The Land: leaving the woods walking into a pasture on our land.
Anti-war political action: some Oakers and visitors/guests protesting in Washington, DC. The community takes no official political positions--members are free to express their own individual views.
Music-making: a visitor plays for a small audience in the visitor cottage.
Mending clothes: an idyllic courtyard outdoor mending party.
Library: our internal library of 10,000 books is shelved mostly in halls outside living quarters.
Greenhouse: large vegetable hoop house used throughout year except summer.
![Communications: the "3 by 5" board, an internal communication system which uses index cards for posting public notices.](/images/igallery/resized/1401-1500/w19001Bd3x5-1489-120-120-100-c.jpg "Communications: the "3 by 5" board, an internal communication system which uses index cards for posting public notices.")
