I really am not sure where this question best belongs, so please feel free to move it as needed.
My family (DH, two kids) live on 2.75 acres in a suburb with a rural setting. We've been here 7 years and have been developing it into a working homestead (garden, orchard, animals,
solar,
greenhouse, etc.). For a couple reasons, I have been kicking around the idea of potentially renting it out for a year to someone/a family who would like to either give living on a homestead a try, or someone who doesn't own
land but has a
project that would fit within our vision for the place that they'd like to try (maybe playing around with forest
gardening, or
mushrooms, etc.). The idea would be to find a way to share what we have here by providing a space at low cost on a temporary basis to someone who could benefit from the
experience and then find a way to pass along that benefit by teaching others, or sharing some of the results of their work.
My questions would be:
1. has anyone done this or know of someone who has
2. do you think there would be a market for this
3. any idea if there might be grants out there/a way to create a nonprofit of sorts to help make the cost of rent minimal, so as to make it a possibility for folks who don't have lots of money
In the interest of trying to be brief, I'm sure there are lots of details I've left out and I'm happy to fill in the blanks.
Thanks for helping me think this through!