lifestyle is supposed to be about how we live.
Grove House is for remembering that—and shaking things up.
WHAT WE’RE ABOUT
Grove House is as practical as it is deep.
Exploring what matters — justice, ecology, the body, the spirit, and the connections between them.
Grove House is not for profit.
Membership is contribute-what-you-can, and free by default.
Grove House is organic.
A space for real things. Honest things. Analog things. Creative things. AI-free and very-offline.
Grove House is an alternative.
To what’s not working. To the norms and jobs and majors and people and expectations that belong to what was never quite right. For building a different kind of life.
P. Tofua
A note from the founder
I have lived my life between worlds.
Past and present. Here and there. Traditional and anything but. It’s only right that Grove House should emerge from that.
Like me, Grove House is between worlds. It is practical, and grounded. And also bold, and audacious. It can hold politics and knowledge and god and the spirit in the same breath. Because they are the same breath. It can hold an honest laugh and a real cry. A guiding principle and a dreamy thought.
What I carry into it is something new. Born with me and learned over time. But also the inherited, lived wisdom of the great-grandparents of my great-grandparents. The learned wisdom of having faced, and studied, and considered, and changed. And the imposed wisdom of having lived through things others speak about in the abstract.
Grove House exists to gather and empower, inform and inspire. To give and be given to. It is the space I wish I'd had, but could never find. It is the realities I carry, but could never find a home for.
I've spent a lot of time in rooms — classrooms, boardrooms, conference rooms — that got at pieces, but never the whole. And I would rather get at the whole. Plant and tend the seeds of something new, and different. Because every grove, every garden, every forest starts from seed.
Grove House is that seed.
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