| We are six adults and a two year old boy living together on 135 acres in rural northeast Missouri. We grow our own organic food and share income, meals, vehicles, and other resources. The land includes gardens, orchards, woods, cropland, bee yards, and pasture.
Our income is derived from foods we produce (sorghum, honey, garlic, mustard, eggs, garden produce and value added condiments), timber sales, and from organic farm inspection, administrative work for the Fellowship for Intentional Community, group process consulting,new farmer consulting as well as occasional work for neighbors.
We like to keep our lifestyle simple and healthy. While we can accommodate a wide range of diets—from vegan to omnivore— we have a primarily vegetarian diet, supplemented by meat from small-scale animal husbandry and our local deer.
We tend to work hard and get satisfaction from providing for ourselves as much as we can while maintaining close ties with neighbors, friends, and other communities.
We enjoy regular celebrations and social occasions, including weekly dinners with Dancing Rabbit, a 13-year-old ecovillage, and Red Earth Farms, a three-year-old land trust community, both just three miles away. We also are getting to know the folks at Possibility Alliance and their local community of sustainable farmers in the LaPlata area, about 35 miles away.
Sandhill is active in the communities, organics and political resistance movements. Core values include cooperation, tolerance, nonviolence, honesty, good communication and sustainable land stewardship.
We hold meetings weekly during the growing season and as needed during the off season. We make major decisions by consensus and keep in touch informally around meals and daily activities. We strive to balance pulling together with supporting individual choices and idiosyncrasies.
We are open to new members and enjoy developing long term relationships for possible future internships or memberships. People with community background and good communication skills tend to do well here. Initiative and the ability to see the broader needs of the whole group are also prized.
A visit for one week can be arranged most times of the year. Please write a detailed introduction of yourself and see our website for more information. | Community location is placed at the center of the zip/postal code, city/state, or city/country (not based on street addresses) |
