Picture this: your hands in the soil, the smell of earth rising. You plant beans, weed rows, share laughter with others beside you. At harvest, you take some food home, and some goes into the common pot. This isn’t labor-for-rent. It’s belonging. It’s remembering that tending the land is how we tend each other.
As a Timeshare Cropper, your shares in the Lifeboat Academy Cooperative translate directly into time you get to spend at the Farmastery, whether once a year, once a season or more. Each time you return, you’ll be able to observe the changes that come with the cycle of the seasons, and see the fruits of your labor from previous visits. Your investment in the Farmastery will be visible and tangible: your money and your labor will feed you and future generations.
One cropper said: “I came back the next season because the land remembered me. My footprints were still there.” This isn’t a gig. It’s kinship. Each time you return, the soil greets you like family.
Interested in becoming a Timeshare Cropper? Send us an email at friends@lifeboat.academy.