Subject: Looking for Long-term core staff at Wagbo

From: "Wagbo Peace Center - Tracy Meisterheim" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:05:30 -0500

Wagbo Peace Center is seeking a married couple for it's long-term core
staff.  The Wagbo Peace Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit experiential education
center teaching nonviolence and sustainable agriculture. Our mission is to
model peaceable, sustainable living and to teach the related concepts of
peace, nonviolence, sustainable agriculture and environmental stewardship.
We are a membership organization with approximately 150 member contributors
and a committed board of directors and trustees. Our financial support comes
from farm income, program fees, fundraising, and trust fund income.  We are
six years into a ten-year development plan and the program is growing faster
than our staff.  We are in an on-going search for people who are
mission-oriented and ready to make a long-term commitment to the center's
development.

Wagbo Peace Center is located in East Jordan, Michigan (northwest lower
peninsula) on a 212-acre homestead.  Three-quarters of the land is northern
hardwoods, and one-quarter is open pasture and tillable fields.  The farm is
a working model and includes a two-acre organic garden with a thirty-share
CSA marketing program, permaculture greenhouse with attached chicken coup
(50 layers), pastured poultry(1000), rotational grazing for Belgian draft
horses and Jersey cows, apiary, small orchard, 2200-tap maple syrup
operation, WoodMizer band saw mill, sustainable forest management, rabbits,
composting and woodworking.  Educational programming currently includes
youth-at-risk apprenticeships, college interns, various community programs,
and school tours.  Future programs will include week-long residential
education for school groups in nonviolence and sustainable living, summer
camp program with an international focus, conferences and retreats.
Long-term staff will help in the development of these programs.

The right couple must have the combined skills of: small scale diversified
farming (some horse experience preferred), working with youth, office
management (including up-to-date computer skills), public relations, and
excellent communication skills.  Previous business ownership is a plus, as
is experience with living in community.  Both must be mission-focused, and
able to devote their best energy to the center's development, while making
Wagbo their long-term home and community.  Both must have a desire for a
lifestyle that is farm based, simple, environmentally conscious, rooted in
pacifism, and shared in community.  Requires strong work ethic,
organization, common sense, foresight, and integrity.

East Jordan is a small town of 1500 in a hilly river valley, on the shore of
Lake Charlevoix.  Arts and music are common, and the area thrives on tourism
from seasonal resorters and outdoor recreationists (hunting, fishing,
hiking, mushrooming, skiing, boating).  It is a conservative blue collar
town, 17 miles from Lake Michigan, 70 miles from the Mackinaw Bridge, and
within a 50 mile radius of three larger towns (Petoskey, Traverse City and
Gaylord

Furnished housing with all utilities (except phone), partial board (shared
farm harvest), and a small salary are provided.  For further information,
contact the Directors: Rick & Tracy Meisterheim, Wagbo Peace Center, 5745
North M-66, East Jordan, MI 49727, 231-536-0333, [email-masked]. Our
brochure can be seen at http://www.horizons.k12.mi.us/~ige/wagbo.html  (IGE
was the original trustee of the Wagbo Trust Fund.  They continue to support
our mission but are no longer involved in it's management.)