Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Agriculture as a community funding process is probably not realistic

[Jayne Kulikauskas (cml]

From: "Honeysuckles" <honeysuckles [at] gci.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 3:53 AM

> In case I gave the wrong impression as to why I was asking those
questions,
> I'd like to respond.  We aren't looking at the farm activities as a way to
> fund the community or our mortgage.  We currently raise our own chickens
for
> meat and eggs and don't wish to stop that.  Prior to discovering cohousing
> we had planned to get Alpacas and sheep for the fiber (and enjoyment) -
the
> fiber being for my personal use.  But as we brainstormed about what we
would
> give up for cohousing and what we didn't want to give up, the question of
> "What if I started selling fiber at a later date?" arose.  That's why I
> wondered what scenarios other communities had faced and how they had
solved
> them, when communal land is involved.

Whole Village in Ontario has not started construction yet (we hope to this
spring if our building permit application is granted), but we did run our
CSA last year.  Perhaps looking at our website  www.wholevillage.org  can
give you some ideas about combining cohousing with agriculture.

Jayne

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