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Land-Based Projects

There is something special about land-based community centers. They bring people together in meaningful ways, particularly in rural communities. Crosshatch works to support these projects through peer-to-peer learning.

This overarching term—land-based projects—is a big bucket that holds projects that:

1. Take place on the land

2. Are integrated into the surrounding ecological and social environment

3. Are run by the local community, in the form of smallholdings, farms, non-profits, small businesses, etc.

4. Often encompass more than a single project or service

Below, you can find links to essays that delve more deeply into land-based projects:

Series Overview of Whole Field Essays

Part 1: Holding the Center: Building an Institute for Art and Ecology (and other land-based projects)

Part 2: Toward the 10,000 Stories: A Manifesto

Part 3: The Honorable Harvest and the Work of Small Farmers

Part 4: Three Women Observe the Magnetic Field that Gathers all of our Betrayals

Part 5: So Many Small Things