I bought an old farm (12 acres in total) which has 8 acres of field which has not been 'farmed' for 20 or more years. I would one day love to fence it all off (existing fencing is as good as gone) and just allows a few horses to retire happily...however, for now, I would like to work out some way the community could use it (and not cost me money). I am really new to the farming/permie/homesteading lifestyle...I have a full time job that I do from home, I travel a lot for work etc
So I am looking for ideas...and wanted to throw this against the permie wall and see what people think??
My idea is to see if I could get a group of people from the city or surrounds who would like to community garden on the place....put in vegetable beds etc and use the land wisely.
We live about 40 mins away from the 'small smoke' city.
Is this a crazy idea?
Are we just too far away form the city for people to want to be involved?
Do you think people would pay a small 'community' fee to cover the cost of some basic infrastructure? (garden beds, deer fences, water pump from the well etc etc)
Ok..let at it! I am tough. I can take any comment!
