Re: City vs Country | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbdOp.Net) | |
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:54:17 -0500 |
I would like to whole-heartedly echo Donna's excellent comments on Rob's enthusiasm for country living. However, she also wrote: >And I agree we need to steward the land. I feel like I'm doing my part by not >encouraging the building of cohousing communities on new, undeveloped land. >We need to do more in-fill projects, or tear down fences. Let farmers live >on ag-land! Sometimes, I think the countryside could be improved by increasing our density of usage, by which I mean both a move to more labor-intensive, ultra-dense agriculture such as that advocated by John Jeavons, and also increasing the number of "farmers" and their families who live on farms. Its not quite cohousing but: lets say, 3 families, deriving some income from farming *and* using the same rough square footage for housing as is *already* taken up by farmer's living quarters. This seems to me to be a step in the right direction: reducing land usage per capita, decreasing rural isolation, increasing shared resources, making sustainable agriculture (to the extent that any agriculture is sustainable ...) more feasible. I'm also thrilled by urban in-fill projects, but there are thousands or millions of acres of rural (not wild) land in the USA that are being increasingly mishandled because people don't live there anymore. If cohousing can act as an inspiration for people to move onto existing farmland *and* be happy there, then perhaps the disaster that agri-business has been for rural land can be partially reversed. Meanwhile, back in West Philadelphia ... --p
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