I have a few ideas
1-2acres per housing unit for 5 people.
Max of 90acres for 45 housing units for 225 people.
The 2acres per housing unit would make the place self-sufficient in terms of fish,
chicken, honey/sugar, nuts and oils, fruits, vegetables, herbs and
mushroom, firewood/heating,
water, sewer, housing. I wonder what the plans are for electricity. Is there poles onsite or hydro or
solar?
The village/community will need:
1) Leader
2) Healer/Shrink/Preist
3) Entertainer
4) Fixer/Jack of all Trade
5) Educator
6) etc,etc
Do you want to create some type of employment opportunity? Grain farm is $800/acre in gross revenue and $300 in
profit, so not even
enough land for 1 housing unit/person. Vegetable farms do $15,000 in gross revenue and $5,000 in profit per acre.
https://www.cias.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/g2gsumweb.pdf
If each housing unit got 2acres for self-sufficiency and 3 acres for a market garden to earn $45,000 gross and $15,000 profit. It could support about 30 housing unit, vs the 45 I had originally stated. I dont know if your town will support 90acres of vegetable market garden (inclusive of herbs & mushroom).
Maybe instead of 30 housing unit you would rather take that 5acres and give that to a cow and thus support a herd of 30cows, with a gross revenue of $60,000 on 150acres or $2,000 per housing unit. But a 50-50 mix probable makes more sense. 15 housing units and 15 cow units (pasture-land/shared forest/etc). 15 housing units still amount to 45 people and there would still be 75 acres of silvopasture land with shared ponds,
firewood, fruit and nut
trees and such.
I wonder what other cottage industry could be created/hosted. Do you already have a coop onsite where people could plugin immediately and then after an incubation period branch off with their own startup venture. Would love to hear some of you thoughts.
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