Re: co-farming in Midwest | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Maggi (librarymaggigmail.com) | |
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:04:31 -0700 (PDT) |
Some of our neighbors at Touchstone in Michigan have expressed
interest in doing something similar.
-Maggi @ Touchstone On Oct 29, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Joelyn Malone wrote:
If anybody is interested in co-housing co-farming in the upper Midwest,there are lots of opportunities close to the Minneapolis-St Paul area. They are more likely to be listed on the IC.org web directory than cohousing.org however, as many are set up like cohousing but call themselves co-op farms or other such things. I'm constantly approached by people who have land or have identified a particular property and would love to have others come join them. There are two such possibilities that have generated quite a bit of interest prior to the housing bust - one at the edge of Northfield MN,(see the Buffalo Commons listing) that got so far as to bring Chuck andKatie out for a weekend workshop before they went dormant due to the economy, and another one just outside of Buffalo MN where the owner is interested in selling to would-be cohousers and has just recently put the land up for sale. (This one may be described on the CohousingAdvocates.com web site, I'm not sure.) Both already havegenerated publicity, have an interested group of people who could becomecore group members, and folks have done a lot of the early research needed for determining initial feasibility. Both are within an hour's drive from the Twin Cities and very near the amenities of smaller, progressive towns. We also have three going concerns close by - Zephyr Valley Community Co-op and Wiscoy Valley Land Cooperative (already mentioned by Craig) and River Haven, located on the Hay River in Wisconsin (also an easy drive from the Twin Cities), which is listed as "forming" only becauseit's being done as a lot development model - they've owned the land fornearly 20 years. They are all in the IC directory. Plus there's a newly emerging venture by a Quaker friend, in the LoessHills area of western Iowa a short drive from either Sioux City Iowa andOmaha Nebraska - this is to be a teaching center for organic farming. See their web site at TRACES.org, click on the "TRACES goes green" button on the home page. They also already own the land - a huge plus.Farming is a very capital-intensive proposition - even hilly land aroundhere is $1000 -2000/acre if it's actually viable farmland.I hope I've generated some interest with these - feel free to contact meif you want to know more! Joelyn Monterey Cohousing Community (MN) 952-926-3872(no longer actively in the business of cohousing promotion, but still abooster!) _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
- Re: co-farming in Pacific NW?, (continued)
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Re: co-farming in Pacific NW? Lise, October 25 2009
- Re: co-farming in Pacific NW? Susan in TN, October 28 2009
- Re: co-farming in Pacific NW? Mac Thomson, October 27 2009
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Re: co-farming in Pacific NW? Joelyn Malone, October 29 2009
- Re: co-farming in Midwest Maggi, October 30 2009
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Re: co-farming in Pacific NW? Lise, October 25 2009
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