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There is no experiment other than the real situation: The Lake Village Homestead Farm, 42 years later - Tony Kaufman, Lake Village Homestead Farm
Lake Village Homestead Farm was started by psychology professor Dr. Roger Ulrich and his colleagues at Western Michigan University as a B.F. Skinner, Walden Two, type experiment in 1971. Lake Village has become a year-round working farm, which was in many ways modeled after Dr. Ulrich's Amish Mennonite upbringing. Since its inception, Lake Village has evolved into an agrarian educational center demonstrating how sustainable agriculture supports community. The farm also serves as an intentional farm-community-nature preserve, where anyone choosing to live on the farm or become a member can obtain healthy food as well as learn to live more in balance with each other and the earth.
Kaufman was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in Huntington Woods. He moved to Kalamazoo in in 1987 where he completed a degree in creative writing from Western Michigan University. In 1991, Kaufman began living on, and helping to operate the Lake Village Farm. He lives there today with his daughter Ella and nearly 30 other residents.
lakevillagehomestead.org
Recorded by Local Future's Aaron Wissner at the Pierce Cedar Creek Institute during the 2014 Sustainability Conference, March 15, 2014.
There is no experiment other than the real situation: The Lake Village Homestead Farm, 42 years later - Tony Kaufman, Lake Village Homestead Farm
Lake Village Homestead Farm was started by psychology professor Dr. Roger Ulrich and his colleagues at Western Michigan University as a B.F. Skinner, Walden Two, type experiment in 1971. Lake Village has become a year-round working farm, which was in many ways modeled after Dr. Ulrich's Amish Mennonite upbringing. Since its inception, Lake Village has evolved into an agrarian educational center demonstrating how sustainable agriculture supports community. The farm also serves as an intentional farm-community-nature preserve, where anyone choosing to live on the farm or become a member can obtain healthy food as well as learn to live more in balance with each other and the earth.
Kaufman was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in Huntington Woods. He moved to Kalamazoo in in 1987 where he completed a degree in creative writing from Western Michigan University. In 1991, Kaufman began living on, and helping to operate the Lake Village Farm. He lives there today with his daughter Ella and nearly 30 other residents.
lakevillagehomestead.org
Recorded by Local Future's Aaron Wissner at the Pierce Cedar Creek Institute during the 2014 Sustainability Conference, March 15, 2014.
