About Yellow Hills Ranch

The Owner

Yellow Hills Ranch is owned by Yellow Hills LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company. The project was organized by World Associates, Inc. in cooperation with private investors. Together they are focused on methods for creating sustainable environments, products, funding models, and the practices that support them.

The owners can be reached here: inquiry@yellowhillsranch.com

Project Vision

This definition of sustainable is also an explanation of what we intend.

“A sustainable community is a place where residents maintain themselves by employing practices in the areas of land use, agriculture, and resource management that foster independence.  A place where residents act in concert with their environment to create a system that balances its capacity to provide with the requirements of daily life.” © 2006, All rights reserved.

For further thoughts on sustainability, and information about what others are doing around the world, use this link.

The Plan

The land, Yellow Hills Ranch, is zoned agricultural, and plans call for a majority of it to remain in agriculture. The owners will request that Rio Arriba County consider approving a plan to preserve pastures for use in a managed grazing and wildlife zone, put land aside for community supported agriculture or forest gardens, and calls for residential areas to be clustered on the north end of the property. You can find more project details and the status of the approval process as it proceeds here.

Financing Options

For Yellow Hills Ranch to be a success, a kind of cooperative economics is called for to encourage small scale agriculture. That means an environment where there is an incentive for people to assist in creating small scale enterprises. Offering flexible financing terms, economical housing options, trading agricultural work for ownership or a portion of profits, will all play a part in a program to create a working community. You can find out more about our plans as they emerge. (future link to more information)

World Associates, Inc.

World’s business activities include: Land development and planning for sustainable communities; sales and service of factory-built housing systems where sustainable or green technologies are in use; green or sustainable products; community scale agriculture; sustainable product licensing; and, development financing solutions for businesses that contribute to a sustainable community.

World Associates, Inc. can be reached here: inquiry@worldassociates.com