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Site Proposal Form
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The physical address of the proposed site
David
Campus is located in
Nova Scotia Canada in the County of Pictou.
The main house is located at
600 Back Road, Pictou County, Nova Scotia,
Canada. The community is Brookland and the
larger community is Salt Springs off Exit 19 on
the TransCanada Highway 104 to Cape Breton. The
phone number is (902) 925-2788. The Mailing
address is RR3 Scotsburn, NS, Canada, B0K 1R0.
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Topographical description of the property
The
property is located in a valley just below the
south eastern side of Dalhousie Mountain, and
has a low elevation of 1000 feet and a high of
over 1500 feet above sea level on the north end
of the property. The entire property is
surrounded by foot hills on the north
–west-south and especially the east towards the
higher ranges of the mountains. In the photos
provided, there are windmills located across the
peaks of the Dalhousie Mountain range.
There
are 65 acres of cleared and farmed lands most of
which presently grows feed crops, barley and
oats, and hay which is all managed by a local
beef farmer. The land to the south of the
mountain brook dividing the property is
presently pasture lands and is being used every
summer for this purpose. There are a few photos
in the slide presentation of the property of
this area but it can be seen in the photos as
the land from the brook going south and is
elevated upwards with its slope facing north.
Windmills in the photos are in a north westerly
direction and can be used as a land mark. From
the brook northward to the top end of the
property where the second brook borders the
land, there is a gentle slope upwards giving
ideal southern exposure to the summer sun and
creating an ideal micro-climate for growing.
These fields have just been recently restored
for optimum production and are presently growing
hay for livestock feed. There is still another
2-year option for the farmer to produce his hay
on these fields as 3 years ago he has spent
thousands of dollars and many hours re-working
the land, producing barley the first year, oats
the second year and hay this year. He was
promised at least 5 years use of the fields to
the north of the farmhouse in return for the
upkeep on these fields.
I have
outlined the property on Google Earth and a view
showing the layout of the wood lands, gravel
pit, and fields. I have slides, videos and a
Google Earth map of the property on the Site
Photos tab and Google Map tab of the website
http://www.TheHelper.org
The
direct URL for the slide Presentation is:
http://www.machiventamelchizedek.org/DavidCampus/DavidCampusSlidesWP.html
The
direct URL for the Google Earth map is:
http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=45.563733,-62.928228&spn=0.0195,0.027637&t=h&z=15&msid=106799120387565398320.000479507a2cda269e4ee
The property is outlined in blue from this
space-view of the property.
In
summary, the property is around 2 kilometres
long running almost due North and South. It is
nestled in the foothills of the Dalhousie
Mountain range. The range to the South is Mount
Thom. It has not been surveyed since the
original land grants to England’s farmers and is
estimated at 150 acres on the Pictou County
Atlas. 123 Acres to the North of the brook to
the upper border line brook, and 27 Acres to the
South of the brook dividing the property. Videos
and slides of the water clarity and volume are
at the website.
http://www.TheHelper.org follow the Site
Photos menu selection on the left of the opening
page.
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Distance to
surrounding urban areas, education centres and
airports
The
closest urban area where all the necessities of
life can be purchased is
New Glasgow Nova Scotia. Links
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2 |. It is 6 kilometres to the main highway
Exit 19 on the aforementioned highway. From
that exit, it is 11 kilometres north to the
first of three exits into New Glasgow and the
four other surrounding townships . New Glasgow –
Stellarton – Trenton – Westville – and the town
of Pictou is a short 15-minute drive. The others
have streets connected directly with one
another. Monica and I do most of our shopping
there as they have two major shopping malls.
From
Exit 19 on Highway 104 (same as US interstates)
going South (30 minutes) is the town of Truro.
Both urban areas have shopping malls and
suppliers as well as collages.
Truro
has the Canada-wide known Agricultural College
of Nova Scotia, as well as one of the several
Nova Scotia Community Colleges. Stellarton
linked to New Glasgow also has one – each one
specializes in the courses which they offer.
Going north towards Cape Breton in the town of
Antigonish is the Saint Francis Xavier
University. This university is a 50-minute drive
from the property and has been voted number one
throughout the country within the last five
years for its programs, services, campus
facilities and instructional ratio – home to
about 2500 students for eight months of the
year.
The
local areas within a 20/30-minute drive have
elementary schools and high schools. Salt
Springs (10 minutes) and Scotsburn (20 minutes)
have elementary schools. Alma (20 minutes) has a
High School as well as three others in the
townships – two of which had been built within
the last 8 years. Fire services are 20 minutes
from the property. There is a hospital in New
Glasgow as well as in Truro with local
community services at the Harris-Sutherland
Memorial Hospital in Pictou. 20 min from the
property.
Nova
Scotia has several universities and
colleges – a high number of post-secondary
institutions given our population of less than
one million!
Universities
Colleges
Halifax,
the capital city of Nova Scotia is 1 hour 30
minutes drive from the property.
The
Halifax International Airport is just over a
one-hour drive.
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Description
of the access roads that lead to the property
The main highways in Nova
Scotia 102 and 104 are similar to the US
Interstate Highways with 2 lanes separated with
green areas and controlled access interchange
ramps.
There is 6 kilometres of dirt roads from Exit
19 to the property, and these are well
maintained and are visible in the slide
presentations. There are also secondary paved
roads around 4 kilometres from the property
leading to various areas of the county.
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Description
of buildings or any existing infrastructure on
the land
There are four buildings
with the land being offered. Three are post and
pressure-treated beam construction. Description
is as follows.
Building “A” is a
pressure-treated post and beam construction with
modern roof trusses and covered with steel
roofing materials. Dimensions of this building
are:
Length 50’6’’
Width 38’ 6”
Height to Roof Truss 9’
This is a completely open
space on the inside.
Siding is tongue & groove
lumber. This building has three large sliding
doors.
Building “B” is a
pressure-treated post and beam construction with
two side wings. Roof is rafters with steel
roofing. This building is open on the bottom
south-facing wall
Length 60’ 6”
Width 56’6”
Height of wings 10’ at
outside wall sloping upwards to15’ towards
center. Top centre peak is approximately 30’
high. Pressure Treated support beams run along
the two wings the length of the building leaving
a high center section open.
Building “C” is a
pressure-treated post and beam construction with
modern roof trusses and covered with steel
roofing materials. Dimensions of this building
are:
Length 48’4’’
Width 30’ 4”
Height to Roof Truss 10’
This is a completely open
space on the inside. Wall on the north is steel
on the east and west hemlock board and is open
on the entire south side.
Building “D” is an
enclosed storage shed – formally a small
building for pottery crafts.
Length 35’
Width 20’
Height to Roof Truss 9’
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Climate
data regarding average temperatures year round
We have four seasons,
Summer – Fall – Winter – Spring
Average Monthly Temperatures
Here is a table showing the Daily Average
Temperatures from the Environment Canada Website
- Canadian Climate Normal’s 1971 - 2000. These
were taken from the weather station at Annapolis
Royal.
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Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
June |
July |
Aug |
Sept |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
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-4.3ºC |
-4.1ºC |
-0.3ºC |
4.9ºC |
10.9ºC |
15.4ºC |
18.4ºC |
18.3ºC |
14.3ºC |
9ºC |
4.5ºC |
-1.4ºC |
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24.26ºF |
24.62ºF |
31.46ºF |
40.82ºF |
51.62ºF |
59.72ºF |
65.12ºF |
64.93ºF |
57.74ºF |
48.2ºF |
40.1ºF |
29.48ºF |
Remember these are average and will vary, warmer
farther in the valley and cooler on the Bay of
Fundy shore.
Average Rainfall Amounts
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Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
June |
July |
Aug |
Sept |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
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72.9mm |
52.2mm |
64.8mm |
75.5mm |
90.2mm |
79.8mm |
85.5mm |
74.9mm |
113.8mm |
109.7mm |
112.2mm |
89.8mm |
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2.87" |
2.06" |
32.55" |
2.97" |
3.55" |
3.14" |
3.37" |
2.95" |
4.48" |
4.32" |
4.42" |
3.54" |
Average Snowfall Amounts
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Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
June |
July |
Aug |
Sept |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
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58.5cm |
40.3cm |
36,2cm |
9.7cm |
0.6cm |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1.3cm |
7.4cm |
33.9cm |
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23.03" |
15.87" |
14.25" |
3.82" |
0.24" |
0" |
0" |
0" |
0" |
0.51" |
2.91" |
13.35" |
Websites with more
information on Nova Scotia Climate:
http://www.annapolis-valley-vacation.com/nova-scotia-weather.html
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/nhns/t5/t5-2.pdf
Our property, having a
southern slope and protected on the north west
by Dalhousie Mountain, has a micro-climate.
MICROCLIMATES
Many local influences can modify a climate of
an
area. For example, the southern slope of a
hill can
sometimes receive enough sunshine to grow
grapes,
whereas the adjacent level field would not be
suitable.
The southern slope of hill has a climate that
is
different than that of the surrounding area
and is
referred to as a microclimate. Many factors
can create
microclimates. Cities and towns
introduce
changes in the environment which create
microclimates. Vegetation can
cause minor changes
in climate; for example, the climate in a
stand of trees
is different than that
in the surrounding fields.
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Water
resources in the area
The property has two
crystal clear mountain brooks running down from
Dalhousie Mountain. Water flow is good year
round, but particularly heavy in the late fall
and early spring, often flooding over its banks
and on to a small portion of the lower field.
Containment work has been done by the Pictou
County River Association to correct the problem
this year.
The property 30 years ago
had one of the largest sheep farms this side of
Montreal. Water resources are optimum for both
crops and livestock. There are videos posted at
http://www.TheHelper.org on the [Site
Photos] tab showing the volume and clarity of
the water flowing through the property. These
were taken at the brook’s lower water flow
period early and late summer. The lower brook
between the two land slopes, one facing north
with 27 acres and the larger slope facing south
123 acres . At the top of the southern slope is
the second brook which borders the northern end
of the property.
When the windmills were
being built on the crest of Dalhousie Mountain
last year the workers discovered a freezing
spring flowing up through the rocks on the crest
of the mountain. When the department of the
environment was called in to investigate they
suspected that a subterranean glacier below the
mountain was supplying water just below the
freezing point to the spring.
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Acreage,
including the amount of land suitable for
cultivating
The land is a part of the
original land grants given to attract settlers
and does not have survey pins. The Pictou County
Atlas shows there are 23 acres of land with the
slope facing north at the South end of the
property bordered by the Brookland Road.
From the brook to the top
of the property in the North on a south facing
area of land there is recorded in the atlas 123
acres of land. Total acres should be around 150
aces but 3 have been sold, and the home lot of 7
acres will not be included.
There is 65 acres of
cleared land. 27 acres is presently being used
for pasture and 38 acres is in Hay production
presently. The 38 acres has just been re-tilled
and fertilized. The remainder is woodlands. Much
of it has been planted in Norwegian Spruce 20
years ago as well there are stands of pine,
hemlock, ash, maple, popular, birch and other
varieties local to the area. The Google Map on
http://www.TheHelper.org will give an
overhead view of the cleared and forested areas.
As well, I have marked the brooks and the
buildings on the property.
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Asking
price and potential for an option on the
property
Contact Garden Project for
Financial Information on Property.
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Income-generating potential
The cleared and managed
land could be put into farm use. The buildings
above are suitable for storage of produce or
could also be used to house farm animals . They
could also be converted to residences and or
small conference center.
I would suggest putting the
land into the production of grapes and
establishing a wine- making facility on the
land. This past year Nova Scotia grape growers
experienced the largest crop ever in the
province. Because the south face of the upper
fields creates a microclimate, in my opinion our
lands would provide an ideal vineyard
environment.
See Articles:
Grape expectations: Winemaking in Nova Scotia
Wines of Nova Scotia
Jost Vineyards
1hr 15 min drive from property
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Renewable
energy resources on the property including
solar, wind or water
The property is ideally
situated for solar active projects with the
majority of land having a south facing incline.
The three best areas in Canada for solar active
homes and industries are Halifax in Nova Scotia,
Edmonton in Alberta and St. John’s in
Newfoundland, due to the proper amount of sun
and cloud free days.
It is also close to one of
the wind farms of Nova Scotia visible in many of
the photos of the property.
The land is constantly fed
with two crystal clear brooks (truly a
remarkable clarity) feeding from the uninhabited
lands on the south slope of Dalhousie Mountain.
The water flow is sufficient to support a
community with the highest grade water. See
photos and videos at
http://www.TheHelper.org
Water is also readily
available by drilling modern day wells.
There is also a gravel pit
on the property with high grade sand, and with a
sifter every size from ¼ inch to 8” stone
suitable for road construction, walkway gravel,
septic tank fields, and concrete floor
materials.
Presently there are no
zoning restrictions on the property residential
or commercial can proceed with the proper
building permits.
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Suitability
as a potential site for a Urantia centre
and/or conference retreat centre
This site is ideal for the
development of a Urantia Centre and/or a
Conference retreat centre, because of its
peaceful setting in unblemished natural beauty
and away from the madding crowd. Its location
positions it conveniently for obtaining the
necessities of life and enjoying the
multicultural aspects of the nearby communities.
We have been growing some of our food for the
past 24 years, therefore, the option to become
self-sustaining is available (see garden
photos). Hotels within close proximity are able
to house overflow participants during their time
at this centre. Many recreational activities and
work opportunities present themselves in the
aforementioned five townships- all within a
30- minute drive for the
purpose of work, supplies, reversion and
entertainment.
The close proximity of the
Nova Scotia Agricultural College in
Truro is also a real benefit for the intelligent
planning for a Garden Society.
In fact, the land was
purchased in 1986 for just such a purpose. It is
particularly ideal for the method employed by
our Creator Son while on Urantia for his many
seasons spent off in nature to commune with the
Father in Heaven.
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Please tell
us why you feel the property would be a good
site for the Garden
While it should be
acknowledged that Urantia, being the personal
nativity world of a Master Creator Son, who is
also our Planetary Prince, will eventually
reflect his ideals of life on a whirling world
of space, there is much contrast between his
ideals and the unfolding and fulfillment of his
promise that the keys to the outward kingdom,
the social and economic affairs be placed in the
hands of his children –those who hear the
Father’s voice.
Presently, there is a great
planetary crisis coming upon the world because
of rapid climate change and the growing world
conflicts caused by the rapid advances of
science and industry as well as the grave errors
of Christianity.
195:10.20
Christianity suffers under a great handicap
because it has become identified in the minds of
all the world as a part of the social system,
the industrial life, and the moral standards of
Western civilization; and thus has Christianity
unwittingly seemed to sponsor a society which
staggers under the guilt of tolerating science
without idealism, politics without principles,
wealth without work, pleasure without restraint,
knowledge without character, power without
conscience, and industry without morality.
195:10.21
The hope of modern Christianity is that it
should cease to sponsor the social systems and
industrial policies of Western civilization
while it humbly bows itself before the cross it
so valiantly extols, there to learn anew from
Jesus of Nazareth the greatest truths mortal man
can ever hear -- the living gospel of the
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
Therefore should we seek
out areas that will be spared much of the
planetary crises now bearing down upon the
peoples of Urantia in every nation. I have
posted much on
http://www.PaulKemp.info on these planetary
events.
Locations for development
are needed that allow sufficient isolation to
begin the development of a new way of life on
Urantia while close enough to allow us to
partake of the advantages of modern-day living
and make use of its systems and technology to be
applied in a new and better way in the Garden
Communities.
We should also consider the
needs for our outreach projects ability to
complete the mission of presenting the fifth
epochal revelation of God to all the people of
Urantia who will receive it..
We should in our search for
locations consider the fact that our immediate
planetary supervisors have requested a
separation of those seeking spiritual insight
from those lost in secular humanity, a world
without God. And while the request of our
immediate planetary supervisors has as yet gone
unanswered we should in our search for locations
to begin building an new and better world
consider the motive and meaning of the request
for isolation.
110:4.6
For many thousands of years, so the records of
Jerusem show, in each generation there have
lived fewer and fewer beings who could function
safely with self-acting Adjusters. This is an
alarming picture, and the supervising
personalities of Satania look with favor upon
the proposals of some of your more immediate
planetary supervisors who advocate the
inauguration of measures designed to foster and
conserve the higher spiritual types of the
Urantia races.
I have prepared over 300
slides of the property and have posted them to
the internet as the mail provider only allows
outgoing mail a 5 meg allotment. They can be
viewed and saved to disk from the Site Photos
tab of my website
http://www.TheHelper.org The direct URL for
the slide presentation is:
http://www.machiventamelchizedek.org/DavidCampus/DavidCampusSlidesWP.html
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Describe
the surrounding communities
The property is located in
an area of Pictou County called Brookland
because of its many crystal clear brooks. It has
many acres of farmland devoted to blueberry,
strawberry and many other fruit growing areas.
Other nearby villages are Scotsburn, Salt
Springs, Alma, and West River.
Salt Springs is a 6-minute
drive from the property and has the Salt
Springs Provincial Park. It has a local
Post Office, General Store & Liquor Store, Hair
Styling business, Woodworking and Cabinet Shop.
Scotsburn is a 20-minute
drive from the property. Scotsburn is a farming
community and the location of one of Nova
Scotia’s major dairy plants. Scotsburn Dairy.
It has its own Post Office, elementary school as
well as a major hardware and farm supply store,
that caters to the needs of the farming
communities in the area. Livestock feeds and
seeds can be purchased here. The grain
processing plant is in Scotsburn as well. The
village also has a fairly large and modern
lumber mill and its own Fire Station.
West River, a 20-minute
drive is a small farming community. It provides
the area’s Fire Protection Services and has
strawberry farms, crop and livestock farms as
well as the West River Greenhouse business.
Alma is a 20-minute drive
and this village has the local high school
serving the western part of the county. It has
its local corner store as well. Other businesses
are farm supply equipment and septic and sewer
systems installation and maintenance, used
building supply outlet. There are two local
fresh farm produce outlets open during the
harvest season.
The closest town is Pictou.
It is on an inland bay and is the original
landing point of the early settlements of Nova
Scotia. A causeway crosses the bay and connects
the town to a group of other towns. New Glasgow,
Trenton, Westville, and Stellarton. This group
of townships, with the exception of Pictou which
is a 20-minute drive, all have streets
transitioning into each other. There is much
talk of amalgamation of this communities into a
single city.
More information on Town of
New Glasgow
Click Here 22 min. from property
More Information on Town of
Pictou
Click Here 20. min from property
More Information on Town of
Stellarton 25. min from property
More Information on Town of
Trenton 25. min from property
More Information on Town of
Westville 20. min from property
More Information on Town of
Truro 35. min from property Hub of Nova
Scotia
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Realtor/owner contact information
Paul & Monica Kemp
R. R. #3 Scotsburn, Pictou
County, Nova Scotia, Canada B0K 1R0
Phone:
(902) 925-2788
e-mail
DavidCampus@seasidehighspeed.com
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contact information
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