Family of 10 urgently looking for a Permaculture work exchange farm

My name is Michaela Farris and I am married to my husband, Hollis. We also have two children, both girls, ages 3 and 1 and a half. We bring along with us a family of 6. Mom (Devon), Dad (Jeff), they also have 4 children; 15 year old, 11 year old, 8 year old, and a 3 year old. We are on a traveling permaculture journey and are actively looking for a work exchange permaculture farm to start our dreams of learning how to live life sustainably from mother Earth. We started this adventure and successfully found a farm that was willing to take a such a large group. Unfortunately it wasn’t a running or functional permaculture farm and we ended up depleting our resources and learned a hard lesson and took it upon ourselves to leave said “farm” to continue our mission in finding a community who is wanting real help from very hard working loving souls. We all have multiple skills we bring along with us. My husband is a general contractor, Jeff owned his own cabinetry business for 14 years. Deven is a certified registered nurse and has 3 college degrees. I do not have any degrees but my dream is to establish a homeschooling school so the kids of the community can learn in a degree they understand at their own paces. The children are all homeschooled and very hands on, so there is plenty of little hands to help all around. We also carry everything with us in an RV and a pop up camper but would love to be able to have some means of housing since we are such a huge group. We are very determined and are hopeful that the right farm will contact us and help us start! We are located in Florida but are willing to travel anywhere in the United States.

Hey we're near Plant City FL and would be interest in talking about your interests. Our outdated but somewhat correct web is www.ecofarmfl.org and my phone number 813-708-3179

Michaela Farris wrote:My name is Michaela Farris and I am married to my husband, Hollis. We also have two children, both girls, ages 3 and 1 and a half. We bring along with us a family of 6. Mom (Devon), Dad (Jeff), they also have 4 children; 15 year old, 11 year old, 8 year old, and a 3 year old. We are on a traveling permaculture journey and are actively looking for a work exchange permaculture farm to start our dreams of learning how to live life sustainably from mother Earth. We started this adventure and successfully found a farm that was willing to take a such a large group. Unfortunately it wasn’t a running or functional permaculture farm and we ended up depleting our resources and learned a hard lesson and took it upon ourselves to leave said “farm” to continue our mission in finding a community who is wanting real help from very hard working loving souls. We all have multiple skills we bring along with us. My husband is a general contractor, Jeff owned his own cabinetry business for 14 years. Deven is a certified registered nurse and has 3 college degrees. I do not have any degrees but my dream is to establish a homeschooling school so the kids of the community can learn in a degree they understand at their own paces. The children are all homeschooled and very hands on, so there is plenty of little hands to help all around. We also carry everything with us in an RV and a pop up camper but would love to be able to have some means of housing since we are such a huge group. We are very determined and are hopeful that the right farm will contact us and help us start! We are located in Florida but are willing to travel anywhere in the United States.

I wish I was more established..... I am looking to grow a community/village. I wanted to have a community homeschool nature school for the kids. I just moved onto 15 acres in North Idaho and would love to have you guys. Everything is new and would need to be started this coming spring. I wanted to do an underground green house for year round food production. Lots of fruit and nut trees etc in a food forest to be started as well. And men with building experience to help build buildings for the community.
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Michaela Farris wrote:My name is Michaela Farris and I am married to my husband, Hollis. We also have two children, both girls, ages 3 and 1 and a half. We bring along with us a family of 6. Mom (Devon), Dad (Jeff), they also have 4 children; 15 year old, 11 year old, 8 year old, and a 3 year old. We are on a traveling permaculture journey and are actively looking for a work exchange permaculture farm to start our dreams of learning how to live life sustainably from mother Earth. We started this adventure and successfully found a farm that was willing to take a such a large group. Unfortunately it wasn’t a running or functional permaculture farm and we ended up depleting our resources and learned a hard lesson and took it upon ourselves to leave said “farm” to continue our mission in finding a community who is wanting real help from very hard working loving souls. We all have multiple skills we bring along with us. My husband is a general contractor, Jeff owned his own cabinetry business for 14 years. Deven is a certified registered nurse and has 3 college degrees. I do not have any degrees but my dream is to establish a homeschooling school so the kids of the community can learn in a degree they understand at their own paces. The children are all homeschooled and very hands on, so there is plenty of little hands to help all around. We also carry everything with us in an RV and a pop up camper but would love to be able to have some means of housing since we are such a huge group. We are very determined and are hopeful that the right farm will contact us and help us start! We are located in Florida but are willing to travel anywhere in the United States.

I think you're going to find that possibly the majority of places willing and able to accommodate a large group will be new starts and not so many operating farms or communities.  I'm about to be single with 5 children (still at home) and a special needs adult son.  Our farm business was decimated during the pandemic.  It's hard to rebuild anything on one's own.  I'm finding that the majority of people who are looking for a place aren't interested in coming here to a farm that is basically at or near 1 on an operational scale of 1-10.  

It's hard for all of us.  Here's hoping we can all find situations to suit. <3