Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Land Use on Coho Acreage (Nessa Dertnig)

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Aug 13, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Judith Bush <jbush [at] together.net> wrote:

> Related to what Sharon V wrote today on the temporariness or permanence of 
> granting use of land, our experience at Cobb HIll is that people investing 
> themselves in the work of growing food or raising animals, want "tenure" for 
> their projects.  Maybe some things can be short-term experiments, but many 
> cannot.  There are big implications for members who aren't present when these 
> early projects are launched. 

Good correction. Growing crops requires long preparation of the land. You don't 
just go out and grow a garden, or abandon it.

When I visited the land where Legacy Farm is planning to build in Rosendale, 
NY, it seemed as if a certain cleared space would be perfect for building but 
they were choosing instead to build on a wooded plot. When I mentioned this, 
they explained that the cleared land was farm land and had been farmed for many 
years previously. It was more valuable to them than the wooded plot.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC
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