Would you enjoy the gift and challenge that is living communally? Want to build your skills in composting, gardening and raising backyard chickens in an urban environment? Do you feel called to bring together diverse individuals to meet your community’s needs through skill shares and workshops? Look no further! The UM FLAT is an experiential…
Fall Harvest Party 2022
The days are shorter, the leaves are making their annual return to the earth, and we can’t wait to celebrate this autumnal season with you at our annual Harvest Party hosted by the UM FLAT! All members of our UM community are invited to attend. This family friendly fun-draising event will feature live music from student…
UM FLAT Strategic Plan
We’re happy to publish our new Strategic Plan, made in an effort to guide our work over the next five years. Please download, take a look, and let us know what you think.
Black Lives Matter
The UM FLAT unequivocally supports the Black Lives Matter movement. In honest pursuit of allyship, we are identifying the best ways to dismantle our racist society and restructure for a more equitable system. As a small community of students dedicated to sustainability, we are committed to environmental justice; a goal that is unattainable without racial…
Communal Living
One adjustment that comes with moving into the UM FLAT is acclimating to communal living. There are two houses shared between six students. We rotate cooking dinner and breakfast for each other once a week and doing chores, such as chicken care and yard maintenance. What keeps this place buzzing with positive energy is a…
Meet a FLATmate: Planting Perennials
IAN – Barefoot in the forest, that’s how you’ll find me. Back home in Western Washington that is. Out here in Montana my toes haven’t gotten quite as much air time as I’d like. In my first year here at UM, I was lucky enough to find the FLAT, which pretty much perfectly sums up…
2016-2017 Academic Year- UM FLAT Resident Application
UM FLAT Resident Application 2016-2017 Academic Year Please send resume and application to the UMFLAT@gmail.com by March 12, 2016 Short answer questions Are you applying to live here for the 2016-2017 academic year? Are you currently committed to a lease for the next academic year? Are you applying to live here with a significant other?…
Meet a FLATmate: Coming to Port in a Glacial Lakebed
SIMON After high school, I spent two years sniffing the emissions from the Schwann factory outside my college town of Marshall, MN. Being a blue dot in a red sea, I left to seek new perspectives and moved in with a mad scientist in Evanston. There, I took a break from studying philosophy and readied…
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