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Commenced:
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01/01/1988 |
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Submitted:
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25/12/2012 |
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Last updated:
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07/10/2015 |
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Location:
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55 windward lane, klickitat, washington , US |
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Website:
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www.windward.org |
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Climate zone:
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Cold Temperate |
Windward is a cooperative community of over thirty years dedicated to preserving and developing village scale technologies needed to support a thriving sustainable community on marginal land. Windward is a small community, and does not intend to grow into a large one. However, we are looking for several more brave hearts and wild souls who want to join us in the adventure. Today, Windward is in it's second generation, having made a bold organizational leap from the founders to a next generation of stewards.
Windward has been working to create a self-reliant rural community (or village) of around 20 people. It has seen ups and downs, and had a lot of
As of 2012 Windward encompasses 131 acre of mixed Ponderosa pine, Douglas fir and Oregon-White Oak woodlands and highland prairie.
We have about 10 acres of intensive agriculture, food forests, annual gardens, etc. and many more acres of forest pasture.
We are continuing to advance the ecological agriculture practices suitable for our land, while working within the existing infrastructure that was put in place over communities history. There is so much going on it is hard to put it all down here.
We are engaged in the whole spectrum of what a community needs. including Food, clothing, building materials, fuel and energy, forage and craft materials, and the cooperative social structures needed to hold a culture (people + a life way + capital + knowledge and values) together over the course of generations.
More information about Windward is available on our website.
www.windward.org
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Windwards Main VegetableGarden
A detailed summary of Windward 1/2 acre terraces garden primarily designed for ann description of the systems in our main annual gardenual crops, as part of our larger system.