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  • From: gaia <gaia@oneota.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Looking for Property?
  • Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:20:31 -0500

Brook,
I just looked at your website.
this is a perfect area for a midwest site of all that you are involved in teaching/living. just hook-up micro/hydro on the creek, and some wind for pumping water(all of which was done here in the past)
an addition, an adjacent 9 acres may be available (I know the fellow who owns it, absent now for 20 some years; an early solar energy pioneer in this area)
the house is allready equipped with solarpit greenhouse just like the one in your picture.
many of the houses still have their barns. trout in the creek and deer,turkey,pheasant in the woods and hills.
not too mention morels and goldenseal,etc; a veritable pharmacy.
Zen Temple Monastery at the top of the hill.
Seed Savers Farm just 5 miles away.
& land available to pasture animals, within walking distance.
The village itself has several amenities...people, even a gay couple(actually, several in the area), the general store which is truly general-
being the post office, community coffee table, laundry,fishing tackle, gifts, some local produce and grocery.did I mention video rental?

Perhaps most importantly, there are several clean springs for drinking water, right in the village.
And the old schoolhouse is available for music/dancing, teaching and community gatherings. The blacksmith shop still stands.
It is a place of both history and possibility. And a very safe place to raise a family.
Native sites -solstice circles, birthing caves, rock art, and bear mounds are here, the last area ceded to the white man is this.
Amish colony up the road. An organic CSA 3 miles away.
10 miles to Decorah,Iowa and 35 to LaCrosse,Wisconsin; both have colleges/universities with Environmental Studies offerings.

I do not have it listed yet, preferring first to attempt to call in the highest vision for the area.
I would list it for somewhere between 90-120. There are some people who specifically want to live in this village; and that will be my next offering. but first I'd like to find a permie-person.
The house is solid, honestly built. constructed to the highest standards of it's day. Rock foundation and chimney provide great thermal mass for a hot-fired wood stove in the basement(one could actually do away with the fuel oil/forced air furnace entirely and just build in a
masonry stove. double plastered walls. real plaster.
it has been insulated. It is a gracious and beautiful house in it's proportions, and not too large. cedar clapboard siding. fairly recent roof, furnace, etc.
I know, you want pictures. but that means I'll have to figure out how to use the camera....

it would probably be faster for you to find a cheap flight into Minneapolis.
I could pick you up and show you the area.

A place of primordial origin... come for a look, you may never want to leave.


Gaianne
my number is 563-546-4664 I'll work on the camera part.

At 02:03 PM 9/11/2006 -0600, you wrote:

please send more info/ listing to us.
Brook LeVan
executive director

SUSTAINABLE SETTINGS
harvesting nature's intelligence
6107 Highway 133
Carbondale, CO 81623
tel. 970 963 6107 fax. 970 963 9966
brook@sustainablesettings.org
www.sustainablesettings.org


On Sep 9, 2006, at 2:04 PM, gaia wrote:

> Interested parties:
> I am relocating, and thus, offering for sale - beautiful permaculture
> site.
> small scale, 1/2 acre located in a very charming rural village
> adjacent to trout stream and 1,500 acres of wildlife preserve.
> In the high river bluff country of Northeast Iowa, near the
> Mississippi.
> Known as the Driftless bio-region, this area is home to the highest
> concentration of organic and biodynamic farms in the Midwest.
> Good food and good people abound. Colleges and Universities nearby.
> House is one of the original village Country French, beautiful
> woodwork,
> hardwood floors, wood cookstove in large country kitchen;
> attached 25' greenhouse provides solar gain and over-wintering for
> greens. developed herb,edible and medicinal flower gardens,
> chicken coop, apple trees and berry bushes. Own well on property, wood
> auxiliary heat. Canoeing,crosscountry skiing and bike trails.
> 2-3 bedrooms. Ideal for a family or couple. 90,000.
> Gaianne Marie Jocquin
> 563-546-4664
> gaia@oneota.net
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