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After some careful thought and consultation with friends of the community, we have substantially changed the participation requirements. Please review the Participate page to see the changes. The reasons for the change is to value contributed labor to a larger extent, and to provide a no-labor option for the disabled or those that choose not to contribute labor. We encourage people to choose option 3 or 4 so we have a good mix of cash flow and contributed labor for the community.

Not mentioned in our latest newsletter, Michael will be leaving for the Philippines on October 6. As he is averse to any weather cooler than tropical, he will be happier there. 

This is a clever tofu press design. I have tested the product and it works great!

They have a great money-back guarantee, too

We have been very busy on many fronts, and have not kept up with our newsletter. However, we plan a March issue with lots of pictures taken by Alecc, a current WWOOFer here. Stay tuned to find out what is happening with our gardens, our new shower facility, and much more!

To those expecting a January newsletter, we apologize. Due to holiday time and the weather progress in December was slow.

However, we have been working for the last 2 months on our garden beds for spring. We now have nine beds 3'X20' for a total of 540 sq. ft of double-dug beds. In addition, we have over 50 prepared spots to plant melons, which we hope will be a good cash crop this year (we plan to prepare over 100 melon mounds). Pictures will be posted soon in the February Newsletter.

After putting on a partial "finish" coat of plaster, we have decided to rock-and-mortar the exterior instead of plastering. This will have the following advantages:

• Higher longevity
• Reduce maintenance to near-zero
• Add some further structural integrity
• Improved aesthetics

We will be putting up pictures of our progress on this very soon. Stay tuned!

Thanks to Margie and the other WarrenShares group for helping us move the water tank. Here is our victory celebration!