Cohousing-L Mailing List: Questions re setting up a garden or orchard as a co-op or club

[Bob Morrison (rhmorrison]

  We are considering setting up a small orchard on common land as a club, that 
is, a setup where a subset of the group forms a club, pays a monthly fee to be 
in the club, does the work, and gets the fruits (literally) of our labors. Have 
any other cohos set up a club or co-op like this to create and run a fruit 
orchard? If so, how did it work out? Did the entire community put up any money 
for this, other than the use of the land? How long did it take to work out the 
"kinks"? Are any of them really successful? To what extend did community 
members outside the club help with the work? 



Bob Morrison
Mosaic Commons Cohousing
Berlin, MA