Short Summary
Lets do more than grow amazing organic
food in an ecologically regenerative way. The second ethic of permaculture is "care of people," and as much as I love the science and design of permaculture, it is the people care side of permaculture that holds my heart.
You see there is this dream I have. Have had for a
while now.
Imagine if you will a place of beauty, filled with beautiful fresh organic food. A place of healing, a place where people can come
to find peace. A place anyone can come to and feel welcome, feel at
home, feel cared for. This is my dream. For me this is the "people care" side of permaculture.
It is a very very big dream I hold, so lets step back just a little bit. To something a little more attainable in this moment. Something amazing has happened.
My teacher, from whom I learned the science and design of permaculture, has asked my husband and I to buy her farm. The beginings of my big dream? She says she thinks my husband and I could do amazing things with her little place. She likes my vision.
It is a small farm, only
an acre. But it is an acre full of potential, as well as mature fruit trees,
and gardens. Designed to be productive and in line with the
principles of permaculture. It is where I took my design course.
We want to buy this farm, to take it further. We are ambitious, and willing to work hard for what we want. We had been planning to go the normal route, to save and buy a farm later. But this beautiful opportunity has come well before we had enough saved.
Please, help us make this happen. Help us buy our farm.
What We Need & What You Get
We need $200 000 to make this happen.
$200k will give us a big enough down payment on the $450k property.
It will not pay for the whole farm but it will be enough to let us
have the same mortgage payments we have on our current house.
In return we offer lots of pretty cool
rewards, from a CSA, to internships and permaculture consultations.
More exciting than those we think, however are our stretch goals.
The magic of crowd funding is in the
community. Lots and lots of people contributing as little as five
dollars really does make dreams come true. Or, even if you can't
contribute, the simple act of one person telling another spreads our
dream through the community making it stronger. Community is very
powerful.
That is why we want to thank our
community, and we have created a few stretch goals to do that.
$300 000 – we will get the farm
certified organic
$450 000 – We will gift our current
house to a local family we have met, who are passionate about growing
food and building community. They were interested in buying our house
before all this got started, and they very much want to work with the local community to create a community garden in the park next to our
current house.
$650 000 – If we reach this level of
funding we will: Gift our current house, get the farm certified
organic, and Jordan will use his amazing carpentry skills to build a
straw bale chemical free building where people can have meetings and
teach workshops. There are amazingly talented people in this area who
are aching to share there skills but are held back by there chemical
sensitivities. We want to create a sanctuary, not just for them, but
for anyone to come and learn, or teach. A sanctuary surrounded by
beautiful forest gardens.