Re: Sustainable ag and cohousing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Joel Woodhull (jwoodhulligc.apc.org) | |
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 14:41:01 -0500 |
King Collins brings up a topic dear to our hearts, involvement of the co-housing movement as consumers of sustainable agriculture. Although we can't help with the direct question of possible interest in the Minneapolis area, I'd like to give a brief report of our progress in Sonoma County, CA. Last September, in response to a query on getting around rural zoning, I posted an idea intended to strengthen urban boundaries, called the Urban-Rural Dipole, in which farms just outside city limits would be tightly linked to cohos within the city limits as both consumers and grower participants. An anticipated obstacle to that idea was the difficulty of a cohousing group reaching agreement on two sites when it was so difficult to establish a single residential site. When the topic came up again in March of this year, my wife and I were still living in Pasadena, but had joined the Jewell Hill group in Sonoma County that was negotiating on the Jewell Hill site within the town of Sebastopol, CA. We were also in escrow on a 9 acre parcel just outside the town boundary, where we could establish a farm. The two sites were just 4 miles apart. Alas, by late May when we arrived in Sebastopol, the coho site negotiations had come to naught, and another site was being pursued that was 3 times as far away. Although we stayed with the Jewell Hill group, primarily because of friendships, it is becoming clearer that rigid linkages between a single farm and a single cohousing group may not be workable. We are continuing in our personal efforts to establish the farm because it seems just the right place to do it. But now we think that linkages to cohos will be more feasible if they are made on an opportunistic basis to any cohos that happen to spring up in the nearby area, as they undoubtedly will. A brief experience with a CSA has given us some healthy skepticism of that mechanism, but it may be that some variant of the CSA will prove workable. Joel Woodhull Sebastopol
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Sustainable ag and cohousing King Collins, August 21 1995
- Re: Sustainable ag and cohousing Tess M Ey, August 21 1995
- Re: Sustainable ag and cohousing Joel Woodhull, August 24 1995
- Re: Sustainable ag and cohousing King Collins, August 25 1995
- Re: Sustainable ag and cohousing Joel Woodhull, August 26 1995
- Re: Sustainable ag and cohousing Shava Nerad, August 28 1995
- Re: Sustainable ag and cohousing Peter Starr, September 4 1995
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