Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Agriculture

[Tree Bressen (tree]

Hi,

I agree with Rob about not expecting much money from agriculture.  However,
there are non-cohousing intentional communities out there that have run CSA
projects which i presume were reasonably successful: Community Alternatives
(BC), Acorn (VA) (now they run an heirloom seed business that is booming,
but they dropped the CSA), and i think a family at Shannon Farm (VA) may
also have been doing a CSA; i'm sure there are others out there i'm not
thinking of. . . .

I've met many would-be community founders over the years who have wanted to
have both an urban and a rural community going in cooperation with each
other, but the only group i've ever seen actually achieve that is the
aforementioned Community Alternatives.  Ganas in NY tried it for a while
but it didn't really work out and they ended up selling the rural place i
think.

Cheers,

--Tree



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