Community & Parallel Economy — Bostead Farm
Build Together
We are building something older than markets and newer than movements — a network of families who trade, teach, and trust one another outside the industrial system.
What Is a Parallel Economy?
It is not a protest. It is not a movement. It is simply people choosing to meet their needs through relationships rather than corporations — growing food, sharing skills, trading goods, and building wealth that stays in the community.
At Bostead Farm, we believe this is not a new idea — it is the old way. Neighbors have always depended on neighbors. We are just remembering how.
How It Works
Local Trade & Barter
Exchange surplus produce, preserved goods, seeds, and skills with neighbors who share your values. No middlemen, no corporate supply chains — just neighbors helping neighbors.
Skills & Knowledge Sharing
From fermentation to fence-building, we host workshops and informal gatherings where experienced hands teach what books can't. Every skill passed on is a link in the chain of self-reliance.
Ways to Participate
Join the Network
Connect with families in our region who are building toward the same vision — regenerative land, honest work, and lives rooted in faith.
Share Your Abundance
Got more eggs than you can eat? Extra seedlings? A skill you've mastered? Bring it to the community. What you give comes back multiplied.
Work Trades & Cooperation
Help a neighbor put up a fence, harvest a field, or process a harvest. We believe in honest labor exchanged freely between people who trust each other.
Faith & Fellowship
This community is grounded in Christian faith. We gather, pray, and work together — not as a program, but as a natural outgrowth of shared belief.
The Foundation
"All the believers were together and had everything in common."
— Acts 2:44–45
"Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety."
— Proverbs 11:14
"Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."
— Galatians 6:2
Ready to Connect?
Whether you have a half-acre or a hundred, a pantry full of preserves or just a willing pair of hands — there is a place for you here.