The Meadowlark Cooperative, was a farming community near Agate, Colorado, administering the only private free land program in the United States. The cooperative provided many social services to its members and employing clean sources of energy, promoting recycling, requiring organic practices and was a culturally and religiously diverse and inclusive community
The community enjoyed an unaffiliated non-profit newspaper, the Meadowlark Herald which is published in Elizabeth, Colorado and mails throughout the United States and has an online edition. The newspaper reports that dams, dikes, reservoirs and other major works were being undertaken within the cooperative.
The community closed in 2012
Geography
Agate is located at 39°26′23.12″N 103°59′56.97″W (39.439756,-103.999157). It is located about four miles outside of Agate.