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The homes for sale in Milagro Cohousing are unique in Tucson. This friendly cohousing community is home to young mothers and married couples with small children, more mature families with older kids and teens, retired adults and elders. You won't find any other Tucson real estate like this award winning green building community. See the amenities all our homes share.

FOR SALE

3001 N Gaia: A spectacular 1927 sq ft, three bedroom, three bathroom house, fully handicapped accessible on corner lot, adobe construction, walled yard with gorgeous landscaping and mature trees, all on drip system, all wheelchair accessible from the private garage. Detached Casita; one bedroom one bath, within the walled yard, plus private entrance. Wide livable porches on South, East and North sides of the house for outdoor enjoyment of the extraordinary wild bird activities.

Living Room Kitchen

Kitchen features granite counters, custom built in oak cabinets, custom granite topped island work space and storage, plus spacious pantry. Bathrooms all feature ceramic tile, accessible toilets, a special bathroom with roll in shower, without curbs. Polished dyed concrete floors; work with the adobe construction to keep cooling costs minimal in the summer. Every room equipped with overhead fans. Hardwood floors on second story. 450K Contact Shirley at 520-622-6863 or smcghee51@cox.net.

Living Room Kitchen

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RENTALS

3023 N Gaia: Female to share a three-bedroom, two-bath, 1500 sq ft adobe home with a single, vegetarian, female professional and one cat. Fantastic mountain views and many community amenities including pool. High-speed wireless internet access. One large and bright furnished room with private bath for $500 monthly. All utilities included, except phone. Month-to-Month lease. Non-smokers only. No Pets. Available September 1st. Please contact Julie at wingate@cox.net.

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The large, bright bedroom The front view The friendly cactus

3051 N Gaia: Room for Rent; Experience cohousing with many sustainable green features, multi generational and diverse, in an affordable manner. Quiet, serene room available in a 3 bedroom, 2 bath approx 1600 sq. ft. home. Share the kitchen of the house and the common areas of the community. The comon areas of the community consists of 33 acres of natural, open space with a labyrinth, wonderful walking trails and wild life, a swimming pool, large common house with a library and fireplace. You can attend community meals, help with the work parties, participate in special events, share books and movies. Milagro is about 15 minutes from the center of Tucson, close to a Safeway and small shopping center. There are fantastic mountain views, city lights and the area is very peaceful. Cohousing living offers many rich experiences.

1 bedroom and private bath $495 per month.

Utilities Included (No Phone)
High-speed wireless internet
Basic TV
Filtered water

Patricia DeWitt 520-297-4191 or pdewitt4@cox.net.

MILAGRO AMENITIES

Milagro Cohousing is one of the several intentional communities in Tucson, Arizona. We have used green building concepts in the design of our homes, parking lot, driveway, landscaping and more.

Here are just a few examples of our green building and ecological design methods.

Our homes are made of 16” thick local adobe blocks with concrete floors and extra large south-facing windows.

The slant and size of the north-facing window overhangs allow the winter sun to warm the adobe and enter our oversized windows to warm the concrete floors, while shading our homes in the hot summer months.

Passive solar water heaters on our roofs take advantage of Tucson’s exceptionally sunny, superb weather. Passive solar water heaters also heat our community pool in fall and spring.

Our roofs are metal with gutters and down-spouts channeling rainwater into planted basins. This way all the rains that falls on our homes, stays right here. This is the most simple and easily sustainable method of passive rain water harvesting. Many of our residents have also installed water harvesting cisterns to save rainwater for dryer months.

Instead of being hooked up to the city sewer system, Milagro has constructed it’s own black water and grey water recycling system. After passing through a septic tank, our used water goes into a wetlands system, in which we hand-planted native bulrushes. The microbes on the roots and surrounding gravel clean up and transform the waste water.

Our transformed black and grey water is then pumped, in an underground drip system, enabling us to have lush ecological landscaping. We truly have an oasis in the desert. In addition to many vegetable gardens, we are growing at least 10 kinds of fruit trees: 3 kinds of figs, plums, peaches, almonds, lemons, oranges, grapefruit, jujubes and pomegranates.

Compositing and EM – Many Milagro residents compost their kitchen waste using traditional composting or composting all waste (even animal products) using the EM – Effective Microorganisms process, using Bokashi. Three households offer composting for the community.

We are investigating ways to become a more sustainable community by raising chickens, starting in private backyards, as we have to protect our chicks from our desert friends and neighbors - coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, owls and hawks.

Al Nichols made a large Solar oven especially for Milagro. He donated it as a memorial to Wayne Moody, our very special and much missed Project Manager. Several households can cook in the solar oven at the same time. It tracks with the sun from energy from a pv panel. We’ve cooked home-grown squash, beans, lasagna, soups, stews and casseroles in our community solar oven.

Once a week we are invited to share in a community Common Meal. Everyone takes a turn as head or assistant cook to dream up a Saturday night meal (our turn comes up around once every 3 months). We offer omnivorous and vegan options at $6 for adults and $3 for children for our mostly organic meals. Email to join us some Saturday night!

We usually celebrate the Solstice and Equinox days with a ritual that one of our residents dreams up. Fun for kids and adults, this often includes walking our labyrinth, singing, dressing for the occasion, drumming and sometimes tossing what we no longer want into a ceremonial fire.

Our weather: Tucson is renowned for its superb weather. Warm and sunny throughout most of the year, the air is remarkably dry, with a low relative humidity. It lies in the zone receiving more sunshine than any other section in the United States.

Tucson is located in the Sonoran Desert region of Southern Arizona; 110 miles south of Phoenix and 60 miles from the Mexican border. It is situated in a valley, surrounded by mountains that rise to heights of over 9,000 feet. The beautiful, lush Sonoran Desert vegetation is everywhere reaching into the city.

Tucson is well known for its fantastic year-round weather. The average high temperature is 81 degrees and the average low temperature is 54 degrees. With an average of 12 inches of rainfall and 86 percent sunshine. Tucson receives more than 50% of its annual rainfall during the months of July, August, and September.

If you are looking at the Tucson homes for sale, you’ll quickly find that we, at Milagro Cohousing, are unique. Our green eco homes include ecological design, ecological landscaping, rain water harvesting, grey water harvesting, and eco friendly living.