Cohousing-L Mailing List: Greenhouse and Eden Alternative

[Thomas Lofft (tlofft]

Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 17:29:10 +0000
From: Kathryn McCamant <kmccamant [at] cohousing-solutions.com>
Subject: [C-L]_ Greenhouse and Eden Alternative
WROTE:
 
A number of communities (f.ex Shepherd Village in Shepherdtown WV) are 
exploring how they might be able to include a Greenhouse Project as part
of their community or adjacent to it. When a group is in the midst of trying to 
develop their community, its nearly impossible to also take on
organizing a Greenhouse Project, so generally that would happen after they get 
moved in. And generally, it seems that what they really need is
?provider??an organization that will take on developing, funding, and running 
that specific project. The cohousing project may be able to
provide the land and volunteers, but that is likely all they can realistically 
take on. Wondering if you, Mary, or anyone else, has
resources to find or connect communities to such resources?
 
Katie 
-- 
Kathryn McCamant, President
CoHousing Solutions
241B Commercial Street
Nevada City, CA 95959
T.530.478.1970  C.916.798.4755
www.cohousing-solutions.com
 
Far and away, the most creative and resourceful cohousing Greenhouse Project I 
have seen has been at Hundredfold Farm, Ortanna, PA;
Http://www.hundredfoldfarm.org
HFF planned, design, permitted and developed an on-site wastewater treatment 
plant combined with a greenhouse for year round plant raising from the 
wastewater nutrients and solar energy. 
As I recall, Bill Hartzell, a former President of Cohousing US, was one of the 
firestarters of this community and an active participant in the 
conceptualization and planning as well as the long term operation of this 
project which was a key element in developing the feasibility of central 
wastewater treatment that allowed clustering of the community rather than 
multiple widely scattered septic systems. 
Tom Lofft
Director
Midatlantic Cohousing
Http://www.midatlanticcohousing.org