> - "Incubator farms," which lease land to young'uns like us to try out
>farming for a year or two.
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> T. Robert Fetter trf@student.umass.edu
> Research Assistant "We are each poets and painters,
> Ag. & Resource Economics bricklayers and revolutionaries.
> U. of Mass - Amherst But we are all mapmakers..."
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Dear Rob, I've been meaning to reply since your >Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998
19:22:30 -0400 (EDT) posting. Time flies. As a matter of fact such a
possibility for developing the Garden Farme (90 ac) where I live 30 mi N of
Mpls-StPaul metro is occuring as a way to meet multiple goals with multiple
uses:
specialty crops needing small acreages, start-up practice plots,
research plots. CSA operation, wildcrafting, permaculture-agroforestry
demonstrations, co-operative marketing, intern training-sharing, are
some compatible uses; even a bed and breakfast, wedding site,
picnic-meetings-retreats, certifiefd woodlot products, shiitake & other
edible fungus, florals, native plant nursery, tree nursery, greenhouse,
seed saving/sales, -a list of value added projects that somebodies want
to trial implement with some shared resources for a year-two-three
without having to make huge capital investments, or commitment to a
piece of land before knowing what's needed or how one's interest will
continue.
I have a Mn nursey liscense, and been market gardening sonce the 70's
-certified organic 1977. I've hosted up to 8 interns and 4 delivery people
- half living on site. I went broke doing vegetables in the mid 80's, then
changed to herbs and salads for restaurant market. I want to keep the
gardening going, but want to provide a setting for others to work on it and
be responsible for their own thing; I want to provide the site and a
program of access and technical help and cooperative training - Akin to a
permaculture eco-village kind of model. I want to focus more into
trees-shrubs.
It was fun to read your posting and encouraging to see related kind
of idea. I'd be interested to stay in touch on what you are finding and
thinking more about it. If you get to midwest, you're invited to visit, or
send a local emissary or traveler in transit. Hook me up if you get
relevant postings around here.
Maybe there could develop an electronic bulletin board with regional
options. I've listed with ATTRA, several colleges, MISA, TERN and note
that TILTH in Ore has run a intern-ag host matching for some years.
Good Luck. Bruce Bacon (612) 753-5099
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