Dave Hopkins:
Formative experience: Lived
and worked for some twelve years in India, mostly at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.
Education: BA in South Asian Studies at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Dave,
born into a family of builders, has a good eye for construction details and
structure, and for the features of a site. He has built his own house (as
general contractor) and barn, with all kinds of green features, including
photovoltaic panels, double walls, and composting toilets. He is a licensed real
estate broker.
Dave lives on a small farm in Buckland with his partner Joanie, two Scottish
terriers and a farm collie, four Coopworth sheep, and ten heritage-breed chickens.
EcoRealty was started by Dave in the summer of 1999.
Affiliations
- NOFA (Northeast Organic Farmers Association)
- Grow Food Northampton
- CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture)
- Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA)
- Realtor Association of the Pioneer Valley
- Massachusetts Association of Realtors
Donations (2012)
- Kestrel Land Trust (Amherst)
- Grow Food Northampton
- Franklin Land Trust
- CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture)
- Weston A. Price Foundation (for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts)
- Broad Brook Coalition (Florence)
- NOFA (Northeast Organic Farmers Association, Massachusetts chapter)
- Red Gate Farm (educational farm in Buckland, MA)
- Amherst Survival Center
- Hilltown Churches Food Pantry