The Flo-Op is finally official!\u00a0 6-8 High St in Florence signs the papers to transfer from being owned by me, Alex, Tammi, and Matt, to being owned by the Flo-Op Inc, which I think is currently me and Alex Jarrett and Sara Howard, and growing.\u00a0 Alex, Sara, Rebecca Fletcher from Cooperative Fund of the NorthEast, and Jim Oldham from Equity Trust celebrate around the dining room table of 6 High.\u00a0 A Northampton Community Land Trust will be in the works.\u00a0 It’s all a way to preserve affordable housing and democratic control.<\/p>\n
Live guests in the studio today:\u00a0 Vincent Hedger and Francie Delaney (York, PA) are visiting me for the week :).\u00a0\u00a0 Vince’smain project has been ComeByBike Farm on the eastern shore of MD for the last 7 years.\u00a0\u00a0 He bikes 25 miles from the barn\/studio where he stays to the farmland where he grows.\u00a0 He’s a channel for growing and feeding people, helping out with his broad array of practical skills wherever he can, generally rejecting the money economy.\u00a0\u00a0 In his 60s now, when I asked him about health care, he kinda laughed and said he said he was on God’s plan.\u00a0 He’s hoping to find a place, a farm, to relocate to in WMass this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Originally from Alaska, MD is getting too hot for him.<\/p>\n
Francie is from York, PA, where she does urban gardening, and homesteading, has raised 3 children, hosts wwoofers, does physical therapy, art, all kinds of community engagement, and has partnered with Vincent on multiple projects.\u00a0\u00a0 She reminds us to Leave the Leaves!\u00a0 they’re important for the ecosystem.<\/p>\n
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The Flo-Op is finally official!\u00a0 6-8 High St in Florence signs the papers to transfer from being owned by me, Alex, Tammi, and Matt, to being owned by the Flo-Op Inc, which I think is currently me and Alex Jarrett and Sara Howard, and growing.\u00a0 Alex, Sara, Rebecca Fletcher from Cooperative Fund of the NorthEast, … Continue reading #277: The FloOpHousingCooperative, Vincent Hedger and Francie Delaney<\/span>