Green Ground Community Design: Building a Hybrid Farming Eco-Social Community

• Farm management (3 years+) - Large scale outdoor/greenhouse licenced medical cannabis in California, Ontario and BC
• General farming (3 years+) - I have been growing my own food and saving seed for over 20 years
• Other experience/agricultural/business training - Currently studying Social Work. I have managed multiple community spaces and have lived in intentional communities for over 20 years. I have also participated in the Lifecycles program in Victoria, a 9 month eco-business planning program.

We are charting a new path in collaborative multigenerational supportive community design by facilitating community connections across the socioeconomic and cultural spectrum through the development and implementation of a research-driven, eco-social community project and scaleable framework, grounded in sustainable farming, mental wealth, integrated support networks, community arts and social enterprise. To speak directly to the farm project, we hope to contribute to food security in the region through field crops, such as legumes and grains, as well as through innovative farming practices, with a focus on spirulina farming specifically. We see the need to meet a demand for a nutrient-dense cash crop that can sustain and support the project while providing Canada with a local source of spirulina. We also intend to have a market garden with basic vegetables, and a fruit and nut orchard. We also hope to have a strong processing facility that generates value-added products from the harvests.

• Registered Lease on Title -
• MOU -
• Transfer / Succession -
• Business Partnership -
• Sale of Land -
• Other - This farm project will hopefully be built into a co-op structure that encourages community involvement and collaborative land stewardship. We hope to offer opportunities for vulnerable community members, such as at-risk youth, women fleeing violence and others experiencing homelessness to access healthy community, long term employment in agriculture and housing security. We are interested in collaborating with a landowner throughout the project or with a landowner interested in an owner financing arrangement. While we may begin with a lease and MOU, we hope to establish a framework model that can be scaled and presented to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation as an alternative way to finance social housing projects. long term vision would require a multi-year lease minimum with option to purchase or transfer to community.

We are willing to work with land that needs to be regenerated since we are well-versed in living soil techniques and biodynamic practices. However, we would ideally love different areas to be a spectrum of loamy to clay-rich soil with good drainage, access to clean water and south-facing preferably. For the Spirulina project, soil is not an issue, but we will be building glass tanks within greenhouses for the project.

• Vegetable - tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, broccoli, onions, garlic, potatoes, squash, beans and peas, and other culinary and medicinal herbs
• Livestock - Focus primarily on chickens for eggs, as well as ducks and possible tilapia if aquaponics is an option
• Grain - depending on elevation, quinoa and millet would be considered. As well as other types of heirloom grains.
• Seed - Ensuring a healthy seed garden will also be very important. Having a nursery to sell veggie starts as well.
• Orchard/Fruit - nut and fruit trees that will work in the growing region.
• Other - Spirulina, sprouts and mushrooms potentially

• Certified Organic -
• Organic -
• Other - biodynamic and a permaculture food forest