Building Fund Raiser
Wind Dance Farm & Earth Education Center
Building Fund Raiser
Building Fund Raiser update: As of February 14, 2010 we have raised $10,060!
$138,400 to go!
We are making strides!
Thank you all who have contributed thus far.
For more information read below:
Wind Dance Farm & Earth EducationCenter is having a fund raiser! Nine years ago John Devine and Leslie and Chenaya Devine Milbourne, moved to their farm with the intent to create a nature center and develop a CSA, a community supported agriculture. Three years later the farm was able to support the CSA, offering farm goods to local people – we begin our 7th year next spring. The nature center idea has grown into an existing and thriving 9-year-old Earth Education Center – with programs year round. Two years ago we achieved a 501 c3 non-profit status. We have now outgrown our space and physical abilities – the education programs currently operate out of our basement and solely our own hands do the work for the CSA.
We have the opportunity to grow, and we are asking for your help to contribute financially towards a building fund. A new facility will have a spacious learning center that will also include an agricultural room with an attached greenhouse, and a loft for housing two farm interns.
There are two options for a facility: 1) purchase adjacent land with an old farmhouse and renovate, or 2) build a new facility on the existing property. Estimates for building new are over $260,000. A new facility would be grand, but it means tearing up more earth and spending a lot of money. The cost for the adjacent property with the farmhouse, and renovation is less than building new. Option 2 is also better for the earth – renovating the farmhouse is comparable to building on “brown fields” of the cities rather than sprawl. Our preference is to purchase the adjacent property. We are currently working on details with the property owner, and consulting with a local “green builder” who is excited to oversee renovation. Board members are also meeting and working to help support growth. Whether we build new or purchase the adjacent property, the nonprofit organization, Wind Dance Farm & Earth Education Center, will be the owner.
We currently have $10,060 in our building fund. Our goal is to raise $149,000. We hope you feel inspired to help us with our vision that will enable us to continue our work for the earth and people. WDF&EEC is a non-profit, tax-deductible 501c3. Your contributions are tax deductible. When we receive your contribution we will send acknowledgement along with our tax identification number.
We are excited about having space for the Earth Education Center. In keeping with our belief that the earth will support us as long as we learn to live with and take care of her, we are committed to sustainable living and teaching. At Wind Dance we live, teach, work and play with the earth foremost in mind.
Sincerely, and always, working for a healthy planet and people,
Leslie Devine Milbourne & John Devine
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Wind Dance Farm & Earth Education Center
649 Virginia Line Rd
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia 25411
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