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The Half-Acre Pathway

How owning a half-acre with AUM works.

You own your home and your work. AUM keeps the land, runs the shared spaces, and helps you reach buyers if you want that help.

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What you own

Your home, your work, your lease.

You own your home; AUM keeps the land

You own your home and your work. AUM keeps the land, runs the shared spaces, and helps you reach buyers if you want that help. Your homesite is leased to you for 40 years, a lease your family can inherit.

Selling what you make is your choice

You decide what to produce and what to charge. The co-op can help you sell to our partner farms and grocers, and using that help is your choice.

How it's built

Six steps, from bare land to living.

Drag the ruler under the model to watch a Green Produce lot go up. Hover any part to see what it is.

  1. 1. Survey

    The lot is surveyed and staked: corners, setbacks, the home's footprint and the septic area.

  2. 2. Groundwork

    The drive and parking go in, the pad is graded, and water, power and septic are installed.

  3. 3. Home

    AUM's builders, with the owner on a Builder lot, build the home and porch.

  4. 4. Production

    The growing, animal or making areas are built out: beds, hoop houses, pens or the production building.

  5. 5. Network hookup

    The lot joins the community: solar and water tie in, the produce stand opens, and pick-ups through the partner network begin.

  6. 6. Living

    The household lives and produces on the lot. Hedgerows fill in, and temporary build areas are cleared.

Your home is finished within two years

Every sale comes with a written promise that your home is finished and ready to live in within two years of signing. If we miss it, you keep the right to make us finish, not just a refund.

Site plans are concepts

The site plans here are drawings of how a site could look. They are not surveys, and they are not an offer of a particular lot.

Your monthly

What your monthly covers.

What your monthly covers

Your monthly has up to four parts. Ground rent pays for the land. A community fee, at cost, pays for security and upkeep. Member services and growers' co-op dues are optional.

Ground rentRequiredUse of the land under the 40-year homesite lease.
Community assessmentRequiredSecurity, lanes, shared spaces and insurance, charged at cost.
Member servicesOptionalProduce allowance, discounts and technology, cancellable at any time.
Growers' co-op duesOptionalGo-to-market through the partner and grocery network, controlled by its members.

The community

Treated as one development, run by its residents.

Our sites are treated as one community

Because all AUM sites are marketed together, the law treats them as one development. We keep the number of homesites we offer at any one time to 99 or fewer, 48 in today's plans, and we follow federal land-sale rules on every sale.

Anyone may apply

AUM is an Equal Housing Opportunity. Anyone may apply, and every application is judged on the same criteria.

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