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  • From: "Wagbo Peace Center - Tracy Meisterheim" <wagbo AT torchlake.com>
  • To: <csa AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Cc: <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>, <msan_mg AT listserv.msue.msu.edu>, <sanet_mg AT cals.ncsu.edu>
  • Subject: Looking for Long-term core staff at Wagbo
  • Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:05:30 -0500

Wagbo Peace Center is seeking a married couple for it's long-term core staff.  The Wagbo Peace Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit experiential education center teaching nonviolence and sustainable agriculture. Our mission is to model peaceable, sustainable living and to teach the related concepts of peace, nonviolence, sustainable agriculture and environmental stewardship.  We are a membership organization with approximately 150 member contributors and a committed board of directors and trustees. Our financial support comes from farm income, program fees, fundraising, and trust fund income.  We are six years into a ten-year development plan and the program is growing faster than our staff.  We are in an on-going search for people who are mission-oriented and ready to make a long-term commitment to the center's development.

Wagbo Peace Center is located in East Jordan, Michigan (northwest lower peninsula) on a 212-acre homestead.  Three-quarters of the land is northern hardwoods, and one-quarter is open pasture and tillable fields.  The farm is a working model and includes a two-acre organic garden with a thirty-share CSA marketing program, permaculture greenhouse with attached chicken coup (50 layers), pastured poultry(1000), rotational grazing for Belgian draft horses and Jersey cows, apiary, small orchard, 2200-tap maple syrup operation, WoodMizer band saw mill, sustainable forest management, rabbits, composting and woodworking.  Educational programming currently includes youth-at-risk apprenticeships, college interns, various community programs, and school tours.  Future programs will include week-long residential education for school groups in nonviolence and sustainable living, summer camp program with an international focus, conferences and retreats.  Long-term staff will help in the development of these programs.

The right couple must have the combined skills of: small scale diversified farming (some horse experience preferred), working with youth, office management (including up-to-date computer skills), public relations, and excellent communication skills.  Previous business ownership is a plus, as is experience with living in community.  Both must be mission-focused, and able to devote their best energy to the center's development, while making Wagbo their long-term home and community.  Both must have a desire for a lifestyle that is farm based, simple, environmentally conscious, rooted in pacifism, and shared in community.  Requires strong work ethic, organization, common sense, foresight, and integrity.

East Jordan is a small town of 1500 in a hilly river valley, on the shore of Lake Charlevoix.  Arts and music are common, and the area thrives on tourism from seasonal resorters and outdoor recreationists (hunting, fishing, hiking, mushrooming, skiing, boating).  It is a conservative blue collar town, 17 miles from Lake Michigan, 70 miles from the Mackinaw Bridge, and within a 50 mile radius of three larger towns (Petoskey, Traverse City and Gaylord

Furnished housing with all utilities (except phone), partial board (shared farm harvest), and a small salary are provided.  For further information, contact the Directors: Rick & Tracy Meisterheim, Wagbo Peace Center, 5745 North M-66, East Jordan, MI 49727, 231-536-0333, wagbo AT torchlake.com. Our brochure can be seen at http://www.horizons.k12.mi.us/~ige/wagbo.html  (IGE was the original trustee of the Wagbo Trust Fund.  They continue to support our mission but are no longer involved in it's management.)



  • Looking for Long-term core staff at Wagbo, Wagbo Peace Center - Tracy Meisterheim, 03/20/2000

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