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Photos to accompany article sent to Communities Magazine.

  • The goats were free. Two co-op members supplied fuel (and ferry faire) to pick them up, built facilities for them, and fed them and cared for them. Now they are being transferred to community ownership. What is a fair price?
  • Mike Nickerson, author of Life, Money, and Illusion, discusses local economics in a building that is community-owned, but the profits from which go to two community members who funded its purchase.
  • A greenhouse, owned by two community members, who maintained it and moved it to the community site, will be transferred to communal ownership, in exchange for co-op shares. What is a fair price?
  • In a unique model, EcoReality Co-op owns the land and all structures, but members "vest" in individual structures from which they can produce income.
  • As well as real estate, group ownership issues arise with buildings, temporary structures, vehicles, farm equipment, and even crops.