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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[permaculture] how to integrate others onto your land,
Elijah Smith, 02/25/2005