Steve and Tanna Hood, a few good photos.

By mark | August 4, 2016 |

    Hello Everybody, Steve and Tanna, because they live so close, visit the farm often, we are starting  some mutual garden projects and other activities and a visit to the nearby Teal Farm where advanced permaculture is being practiced. It is exciting for me to break the tether to  this computer, fire up our…

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Comments by Joe and Mark about attracting younger families.

By mark | July 18, 2016 |

Windekind Home I just read Mark’s newsletter and got to thinking a bit more about attracting younger people to Windekind/The Commons. A couple of years ago I began researching the Vermont Land Trust and related State of Vermont programs for farmland preservation. Though highly successful at helping preserve and conserve farms as farms (rather than…

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“Living Design” in Context: Empowerment at Windekind Commons

By mark | February 29, 2016 |

Windekind Home Not Everybody gets to be a locomotive Engineer, at Windekind we empower our visitors, after careful instruction, with the ability to run trains/   In traditional housing developments, the governance model is one in which the developer, whose motives are profit-based versus community-based, makes all the land use, design, and construction decisions for…

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“Kindness, when given away, keeps coming back.” Amish Proverb

By mark | January 20, 2016 |

Windekind Home               Marijke and I have always been at home in Amish communities, starting in 1963, when we were exploring a country lane near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and an observant Amish farmer noticed our curiosity in a water powered pump mechanism and invited us to join a nearby wedding…

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