Matt,
What kind of people? I'm not sure I can answer that one very well.
Folks who are keen to grow good food and swap good food with good neighbors? I'm old now. They say the tastebuds are the last to go.
Seriously ... gardeners and wanna be gardeners ... people with
enough sincere interest in an immediate and lush environment to generate their own very steep learning curve ... and then perhaps be willing someday to share their knowledge with others?
People who probably want to build their own camp/cabin/homestead. Creative people with lots of
common sense too.
People without drama and who do not suck the air out of a room or conversation. Good listeners and story tellers are always valued.
Honest folk who can think and talk straight.
People with kids ... people with great grandkids. Retired teachers, and those just getting ready to teach. Single folk, retired folk ... maybe even a musician or two.
How about someone who knows what the word Chautauqua means and who may have an itch to recreate a similar camp
experience.
Artists
Herbalists
Entrepreneurs
Academics might be tolerated, but accepted only after they produce their own garden or build their own treehouse.
But mostly gardeners. Havng food and health in village common is a powerful unifying factor. I don't care about the political, religious, or philosophical views of my nearest neighbor. I care what he thinks about the soil he walks on and tends and what kind of eggplant she might be growing.
VISION? It is a big space surrounded by big space here. Room for lots of vision.
My own? A learning community. A place for tending human potential and cradle to grave learning.
A healthy place. A fair and honest place, and a resilient place when the chips are down.
A retreat and a haven.
A laboratory for an organic, Earth connected life.
Matt, I told you I would not be good at
the answer to such a huge question.
What would you most like to know?
Is there room? Plenty. Come camp and look around. Risk free. It speaks to a lot of people who visit this big lake country for the first time. Maybe it will have a whisper for you!
Vision? A place where there is room for the genius ... the Light, in everyone. A place to learn and grow. A laboratory for Life.
