1 / 5

Forty Oaks Plantation: A Historic Property Transition Project

Join June Foushee in deciding the fate of her family's Durham County property. Options include a public historic site, land conservation donation, off-the-grid homestead, or an organic farm incubator. Form small teams to explore and document logistics for a chosen option, creating a report with recommendations. Visit relevant places and learn about documenting historic properties, soil & water quality testing, and off-the-grid retrofit designs.

phuoc
Download Presentation

Forty Oaks Plantation: A Historic Property Transition Project

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Forty Oaks PlantationMini Term

  2. If you had 40 or 50 acres of land in Durham with a historic house, barn, a cotton gin and 20 acre wood, what would you do with it ?

  3. This mini term help local landowner, June Foushee, Decide what she should do with her family’s Durham County property. Foushee Cotton Gin

  4. Some options that will be considered: • Historic property available to the public • Donation to Land Conservancy • Off the grid homestead • Incubator organic farm

  5. Explore and document the logistics for one of these options in small teams and create a report for the landowner, with recommendations. Visit the NC Solar Center, an incubator farm, an historic Property Open to the public to learn about each option. Learn techniques for documenting historic properties Test soil and water quality to determine the suitability of the property for an organic farm Learn about off-the-grid retrofit designs

More Related