We've been farming organically and building community since 1974 on 135 acres in rural, northeast Missouri. We grow the great majority of our food and share income, meals, vehicles and other resources. Our current membership consists of seven adults and a four year old child .

We have a simple and healthy lifestyle; creativity, ecological sustainability, nonviolence, personal freedom, honest communication, consensus decision-making and emotional support are core values.

Our land includes large vegetable/herb gardens, orchards, woods, hayfields, bee yards, cropland and pasture. We raise chickens for eggs, meat and manure. We sometimes also raise turkeys. We hunt deer on our land. We produce and sell sorghum syrup, honey, garlic, mustard, horseradish and various seasonal condiments . Our population swells during the growing and harvest seasons with interns, visitors and guests. Our fall sorghum harvest has become a Sandhill tradition. Not only is sorghum syrup our biggest agricultural income source, it's also one of our main social events of the year. New friends and old from all over the country and other intentional communities come to help bring in the crop and join in the fun.

We enjoy meeting people who appreciate the rural and alternative lifestyle, who wish to live and interact with children and who connect well with the land and its seasons. We are open to exploring membership with folks attracted to our visiton and reality-- though those conversations might not bloom into membership sooner than next year or beyond. We like to take our time in getting to know people. If you are interested in starting that relationship, please see our page on membership, and perhaps arrange a visit.