Community Profile

Pledge Summary

Melbourne Village is a small community of approximately 700 residents, located in The Space Coast area of Florida. The town was founded in 1946 as an Intentional Community, with early residents building their own homes, and running small businesses to support themselves and their families. Some of these businesses included farming chinchillas and organic gardening. The Town had an honor system town store where people could sell their products to their neighbors. The Town was incorporated in 1957 to avoid absorption into the surrounding, rapidly expanding city of Melbourne. Today, Melbourne Village retains much of it's original charm and personality. Many people still raise chickens, grow their own food, and participate in a very close knit community where neighbors helping neighbors is the norm. It is a refuge for abundant wildlife, making Monarch Habitat expansion a natural fit for the town.