He joined the communal experiment known as Brook Farm from 1842 to 1843.

The communal experiment ended in 1880.

Because of her role, she was soon recognized as one of the most important figures of the transcendental movement and was invited to George Ripley's Brook Farm, a communal experiment.

The novel alludes to communal experiments of the 1960s, involving the intersection of nature and technology.

Each of these experiences has generated further innovation in Latin American liberation theology and in the range of communal experiments in lay religious commitment known as "base communities."

One in particular was the United Order of Kanab, which was a communal experiment initiated by Brigham Young.

In his book Something Good for a Change, Gravy described this early period as a "bizarre communal experiment" where the "people began to outnumber the pigs.

Hopedale was one of the most successful communal experiments of the era, but failed after fifteen years.

In the medieval period numerous communal experiments were set up, a number associated with monasticism, which involved the adoption by their members of communist principles.

Brook Farm was one of at least 80 communal experiments active in the United States throughout the 1840s, though it was the first to be secular.