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  • From: Elijah Smith <elijahs@earthlink.net>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] how to integrate others onto your land
  • Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:22:55 -1000


Ok, so I'm just starting to work my land - 14 acres, crazy fertile. Things are VERY rough there right now; I'm just setting up catchment and have been living out of a shipping container. Lots of making rock piles and cutting down 14' grass. At this point, I can barely get by myself there and have no ability to invite interns or the like.

To my absolute delight I was referred a great guy who is looking for land to work - he's done a pc course in Australia, is really interested in experimenting with rotational grazing, etc etc. However, He's a little gunshy about investing time, energy, money in someone else's land without a guarentee of some sort. Why? He recently built himself and his sweetie a home on another piece of land, only to have the situation "change" from autonomy to work-trade. He wants autonomy, and I want him to have it too; I won't and can't manage him...

However, I'm a little loathe to just sign his name to the land title. I don't know him *that* well, though we seem to be on the same page so far. I can't really see wanting to kick him off the land unless something really egregious occurs and I want him to feel secure there... so how do we come up with a mutually agreeable arrangement? What have YOU done in this situation? Saying "let's try a year and see how it goes" won't fly, because to even move onto the land is going to require a lot of investment on his part. And long term, I intend to cultivate a community on the land, perhaps even to the point of my stepping away from it...

Any feedback or references to what others have done is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Elijah



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