EcoVillage LLC
EcoVillage LLC: An Immersive Living Experience at Loy Farm
For more than a decade, Loy Farm has served as home to Elon’s Center for Environmental Studies and
a thriving hub of experiential learning for students, faculty, and staff who are passionate about sustainability and environmental preservation.
Elon has long envisioned a residential community located at Loy Farm, with students applying what they learn in the classroom to tending the farm and living out sustainable principles. That vision is now reality as Elon launches an exciting project to build a new sustainable living-learning community, dubbed the EcoVillage LLC, that will be a showcase for sustainable architecture and hands-on learning for students, opportunities that are unavailable at many colleges and universities.
In Fall 2024 and Fall 2025, twelve sustainably designed homes will be built on the eastern edge of Loy Farm as a model of green architecture and engaged, experiential learning, where 24 students will live in harmony with nature while learning and embracing sustainable practices that they will carry into the world as informed global citizens.
Residents will contribute to the wellbeing and care of the LLC while faculty and staff advisors will guide activities and outreach. This new LLC will complement the work of Elon’s sustainable living-learning community for first-year students, currently located in the Colonnades Neighborhood.
EcoVillage LLC – At a Glance:
- 12 sustainably designed homes (6 by Fall 2024 and the remaining by Fall 2025).
- EcoVillage Student Commons Building – includes a community kitchen, study/meeting room, laundry, and a university bathroom.
- Additional outdoor gathering spaces.
- Approximately 600-square-foot residences.
- Two bedrooms, full kitchen, shared bathroom, common area, and porch.
- Eligible students are sophomores-seniors who have lived in campus housing for two prior terms already.
- Students will be charged at the single room rate and the houses will open/close during break periods, Thanksgiving, Spring, and Summer, just like residence halls.
- Summer housing options will be available through the summer housing application process.
- To apply to live in the Eco Village LLC, please review the application process here.
- The syllabus outlining the activities of the LLC, including the required linked course, can be found here.
- For more information, please reach out to the LLC advisors below:
Students begin work on Loy Farm Living-Learning Community, a ‘truly groundbreaking’ project