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Hundredfold Farm

Hundredfold Farm. A Cohousing Community In Harmony With Nature. Features of Cohousing. Participatory Process Varied Responsibility for Development Resident Management Intentional Neighborhood Design Extensive Common Features Separation of the car from housing core Optional Shared Meals.

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Hundredfold Farm

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  1. Hundredfold Farm A Cohousing Community In Harmony With Nature

  2. Features of Cohousing • Participatory Process • Varied Responsibility for Development • Resident Management • Intentional Neighborhood Design • Extensive Common Features • Separation of the car from housing core • Optional Shared Meals

  3. N. American Count as of October 2003 Forming: 41 Seeking Site: 19 Site Optioned: 3 Own Site: 20 Building: 28 Completed: 73 184 HFF

  4. Sustainable Living Education New Extended Family Core Values Personal Empowerment Stewardship Celebration of Food A Convergence of Passions

  5. Core Values • Caring: We are committed to keeping the interests of the land foremost in all our decisions. • Paring: We are seeking ways to reduce our consumption of non-renewables. • Sharing: We envision our time not being spent in formal meetings, but rooted in the daily, spontaneous encounters with one another.

  6. The Farm • 80 plus acres of rolling fields and woods • Adams County – Agriculture (fruit) & Tourism • Gettysburg School District • Within one hour of 10 colleges/universities • 3hrs/NYC, 1.75hrs/DC, 1.50hrs/Baltimore • 10 minutes to the 85,000 acre Michaux State Forest and the Appalachian Trail

  7. Site Design

  8. Housing - General • Fourteen Detached Single Family Homes • Clustered within ~ six acres • Two-story and single story building sites • 2,000 sq ft maximum floor space • Semi-custom: Design a floor plan that meets your unique needs

  9. Housing - Specific • Don Bradley – Solar Strategies Dev. Corp. • Design Homes LLC of Bloomsburg, PA • Energy self-sufficiency of 75 to 95% • Passive solar • Well insulated • Earth bermed lower floor • High efficiency radiant floor heating • Low VOC options • Grid interactive PV & Solar hot water options

  10. Grid Interactive Solar Electric • Connected to electric grid • Hands off swapping of electricity • A 3kW system will provide 60% of electric need • Three day battery backup for critical systems

  11. Water Management System • Potable Water • Two community wells • Sediment filtration, UV, storage, pressure main • Waste Water • PowerSewer at each house • SunDrive System – Water for flush and irrigation • Rainwater • Individual rain collection systems • Rain gardens • Stormwater and Erosion Control • Promotes ground water recharge on farm

  12. Microbes, algae, aquatic vegetation and solar energy Household Wastewater Reclaimed water Breakdown of nutrients, solids, bacteria and trace metals Waste Water Treatment and Recycling

  13. Legal • Air Space Condominium • You own your home, plus the footprint of land underneath it, but the remaining property and structures are commonly owned. • Hundredfold Farm Homeowners’ Assoc. • Homeowners are automatically homeowners’ association members and are bound by the bylaws of the association.

  14. Seven Springs Tree Farm • A separate legal entity from Hundredfold • Owned by the HFF membership • Operated using accepted organic practices with IPM • Key to Hundredfold’s affordability • Obtained a $200,000 business loan in order to purchase the entire Hundredfold tree crop • Six years at the present level of operation necessary in order to repay that loan • Members share annual principal payment, business pays monthly interest

  15. Support of Micro-Enterprise • We support appropriately scaled, member created businesses that are compatible with the Hundredfold Farm vision statement • Self-employment/home businesses • Businesses operated by a subset of members • Examples: • Community Supported Agriculture • Alternative healing • Educational Center – Community specific workshops

  16. Economics • Membership fee: $ 17,000+ • Building Lot: $ 45,000 • House: $ 90,000 to $150,000 • Total: $150,000 to $210,000 • PV System (3 kW) $30,000 (included in above total) • 2% loan offered $20,000 (to be applied toward system cost) • Grant $10,000 (to be applied toward system cost) • Condo fee: To be determined (~$150/mo)

  17. Remaining Tasks • Individual home designs • Closing on financing • Final approval of water management system • Final township approval of site design • Attracting 4 to 5 additional members

  18. My heart is moved by all I cannot save; so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who, age after age, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. Adrienne Rich

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