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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

This is a question for anyone with an opinion (and I KNOW this list is
opinionated), but mostly for Gene, since he's the great guru on such
things.

I'm getting disgusted with trying to farm alone. My divorce left me with a
huge financial mess, so I need some way to make money...more than I can
make farming by myself. I  love farming and the whole lifestyle. I just
can't make it work by myself.

I've been thinking how nice it would be to join a 'family' of like-minded
people. A hippy commune (but NOT a PETA, vegetarian commune...a real
FARMING commune). I probably couldn't consider it until my kids (12 and
14) are launched into the world (their dad would put up a stink if I
hauled them off to Maine or somewhere). But it would be fun looking into
it, and could take me 5 years to sell this farm.There is the possibility
of bringing other people here, but I'd have to build living quarters, etc.

So...anyone know of farming communes (or are they called something else
these days) in New England? I know that Frank has one in Kentucky, and
it's tempting, but I want to move north, not south. My sister lives in
Maine, and there are a lot of my kind of crazy, old hippy type people up
there. Any ideas?

Lynn Wigglesworth
Peasant Farmer
Tioga County, PA