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Common meals feature as an anchor of community life. Eating together regularly is an activity you can count on being there alongside all the big, little, and mundane activities that make up life in cohousing. Folks new to cohousing may picture this as a highly structured activity: meals every night, or every week, or several times a week, with assigned cooking and cleanup roles rotating through the community like clockwork. A 2001 article on the National Cohousing Alliance w

Hard on the heels of Bull City Commons' first appearance on the Durham Garden Tour came BCC's second appearance as a stop on Old West Durham's Porchfest, where wandering crowds of music-lovers enjoy performers singing and playing from the porches of OWD neighborhood homes. As they did last year, the Swampbillies performed Cajun and Zydeco numbers in BCC's garden while folks danced, sat, and enjoyed a gloriously warm afternoon in Old West Durham.

The 2026 edition of Old West Durham's Porchfest is set for Saturday, May 9! The Porchfest site has all the details, including a map and schedule, but here are the basics: An afternoon of music Bring a lawn chair OWD Porches = Performance Stages Musicians from around town sharing their talents And AND AND!! Bull City Commons kicks off the shows at 1pm in our garden with a performance by Cajun/Zydeco band The Swampbillies, which includes BCC residents Christine and Jim as band

The day started chilly and overcast but when the threat of rain passed, more and more folks came out to Bull City Commons' garden as part of the 2026 Durham Garden Tour. This is BCC's debut year on the Tour. BCC volunteers greeted visitors and shared the history of BCCs garden, and how BCC's Landscape Circle turned a patch of compacted construction fill into a lush garden hideaway.