August 2023 – Farmcolony Times

Farewell to Pickles!

Post author:Nancy Sopher
Post published:August 31, 2023
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Farewell, Pickles Live Long and Prosper! https://youtu.be/cpQgYpbNf3Y Farmcolony bids farewell to Pickles, a most delightful duck that members of the chicken committee came to know and love as they cared for her in the chicken coop. Why is there a duck living in the chicken coop, you might wonder? Two ducks came to live in the chicken coop several years ago with a group of chickens given to the farm through a private donation. These two ducks had always lived with chickens and the chicken committee continued to care for the ducks as well as they could by building them a swimming pool and providing sleeping accommodations for them inside the coop. The ducks in turn rewarded the chicken committee members with their utter cuteness as they waddled through…

Five or Seven? The Choice Is Yours. Or Is It?

Post author:Nancy Sopher
Post published:August 14, 2023
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In 2020 immediately following a new board election, a member of the Farmcolony Board of Directors abruptly resigned from the board. His reason for resigning, as he stated at the time, is to comply with our Declaration of Trust which set the initial number of board directors at five. The resignation from the board raised many questions, such as what is a Declaration of Trust and what role does it play in the governance of our association? It’s complicated.In 1983, eight years from the founding of Farmcolony in 1975, the membership met and voted to amend its bylaw Article IV, Directors, Section 1, Number and Qualification to change the number of directors on its board from five directors to seven. The rationale given at the time for amending the bylaw…