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  • From: "Dori Green" <dorigreen00 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: market-farming Openings!
  • Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 05:13:14 -0500


Ash Grove Community Farm & Center for Sustainable Living
Corning, NY (between the Finger Lakes and Pennsylvania)
February 28, 2001

We have two immediate openings for resident members at the only CSA project within a five-county area. Farm and/or gardening experience is helpful but is not required.

Basic membership is $60 or ten hours of help in the barns and gardens. Rent is $300 per month plus eight hours per week of help with the animals and/or gardens. Residents have a large private bedroom and whole-house sharing privileges. Payment of the first month's rent, last month's rent, and security deposit equal to a month's rent is due before moving in.

Ash Grove is now in the process of being restructured as a not-for-profit organization. We have no paid staff this year, so resident members must be prepared to be self-supporting through off-farm employment, personal money, or appropriate social service agencies.

Resident members may choose to work additional hours in exchange for instruction and a share of profits from the farm's operations including:
- chemical-free subscription garden
- whole-food buying club
- firewood buying club
- hand spinners club (Jacob sheep)
- chemical-free plant nursery specializing in native
and heirloom plants
- dairy, pack, harness, and pygmy goats
- dairy cows
- pastured poultry
- pastured pigs
- homesteading and simple-living skill workshops
- medicinal herb gardens
- cutflower and everlasting gardens
- horse and pony rescue club
- headquarters for the local farmers' marketing cooperative

Our house is a big old farmhouse, nothing fancy but it's all clean and everything works. It's cozy in the winter and cool in the summer, and we have swimming privileges in the pond next door. We have internet access and a satellite TV system -- we're organic farmers, not Luddites.

This is a great opportunity for wannabe farmers who don't have the means or knowledge base to set up a farm of their own. We've been here for ten years -- we're not rich yet but we must be doing something right! We have just made important marketing connections and formed alliances with other area farmers, and things are looking good here.

Prospective resident members must be non-smokers, committed to the principles of non-violent conflict resolution and social cooperation. We are not accepting any more pets or children at this time. Residents are welcome to share the pets now here.

We have openings again because the family who arrived in December had to return to Kansas City to be with a dying parent. And life surges on.

Dori Green, Facilitator
Ash Grove Community Farm & Center for Sustainable Living
Corning, NY
http://www.ic.org/agrove/index.htm

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  • market-farming Openings!, Dori Green, 02/28/2001

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