Ionia Inc

Common problems and hopes for a common solution brought five families together in 1987. They purchased five acres of spruce forest on the Kenai Peninsula in South-Central Alaska and Ionia had its beginning. The founders came from different geographic, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, as well as different kinds of internal hardships and behavioral dysfunction. Through a process of trial and error, the families realized that individuals, families and communities are truly interdependent; that in order to sustainably change one thing, they had to change almost everything; and, that it is impossible to create change without embodying it, together. This kind of thinking has led to Ionia’s endurance.