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In 2008 we do not have a physical farm. After truly horrible experiences at our leased farm in Eagle Harbor we have landed on our feet and the mission continues. If and when a group of people wants to start shopping for land, we will again consider the purchase of a farm. In the meantime, the importance of community-building and connections with like-minded people has been clearly demonstrated to us.

To support local sustainable agriculture we are now working with the following connections:

• Our facilitator Dori Green has an extensive garden at her new home. She is organizing a free cooperative seed order for people who are looking for organic seeds that have been developed in our climate zone.
  
  
• Dori is working with a nearby family to develop a large garden to provide summer jobs for area teenagers growing food and flowers for donation to area nursing homes. We might also sell some seedlings, veggies, herbs, flowers, and fruit at farmers markets in their town. This garden is not open to the general public.
  
  
• We are the authorized Medina-area distributor for Porter Farms Organic Community-Supported Agriculture Project (CSA). Our members may purchase produce full shares directly from Porter Farms. Partial and summer-only shares are available only through us. You may travel to Porter Farms near Batavia to pick up your weekly shares from June through November, or you can pick them up at our drop site in Medina.
  
  
• We provide our members with connections to many area farmers who might not otherwise be easily found -- a lady who sells New York State Certified raw goat and cow milk ($5.00 per gallon), several producers of free-range chickens and eggs (from $1.00 per dozen), a smallholder with happy and very tasty angus beef cows ($2.75 per pound).
  
  
• We organize lots of group U-Pick and Putting Up parties that celebrate our bounty of area farms offering public access. One group picks early in the morning, a second group joins them at a large commercial-type kitchen to take over most of the putting-up work (freezing or canning). Everybody shares the costs and finished products equally. Nobody goes home exhausted, and everybody saves money!
  
  
• Members are welcome to join Dori and her packgoats on excursions to the Erie Canal towpath and other great local hiking places. If anybody wants to learn about packgoats and is willing to contribute work and money toward their care, we can talk. But Dori is no longer offering goat herd shares.
  
  
• Some of our sustainability connections also include:
  
  
  • The Ant Hill Housing Cooperative in Rochester. A very cool social experiment!
    
    
  • Circle Inc., educational yurt in Fishers and sacred land and retreat center in Dansville.