Land Based Projects Directory
This survey is designed to gauge the breadth and diversity of land-based projects in Michigan, and to gauge interest among project-developers and/or project-imaginers in joining a support network. Hopefully, the survey itself helps explain what such a network might accomplish.
A definition: Land-based projects (LBP) are projects integrated into the surrounding ecological and social environment, run by communities, smallholdings, farms, organizations, or businesses, and that encompass more than a single building or service.
This broad definition includes music festivals, land-based artist residencies, and folk schools; education centers, nature centers and research stations, eco-villages, ecological housing projects, intentional communities, and cohousing—or even individual co-op housing projects that are situated in a natural landscape or integrated into the larger community; commons-based projects, including community gardens, farms and orchards; retreat centers and camps; and farms with a strong public component.