The newly renovated Henry Street Volunteer House is located in Appalachia, VA, just miles from Ison Rock Ridge. The house serves as an affordable living space for short-term and long-term volunteers in Southwestern Virginia as well as to provide an example of sustainability for the region. It provides the ability for those who wish to volunteer in the area to actually live in the community, and therefore increases the volunteer potential for the region. Residents, who are generally members of the RRENEW Collective, operate collectively with community resources, intentional norm and rule setting, and frequent open communication.
Current house projects include the installation of a woodstove for heat throughout the winter, creation of terraced gardens on highly sloped yard, renovation of windows to high-efficiency models, renovating the loft space for more storage, digging a drainage ditch around the house to prevent flooding, installing rain barrels, among others.
There are currently four residents in the house who each have projects they are working on, and can be contacted at rrenew.collective@gmail.com for further questions!
