The Meadowlark Cooperative, a farming community near Agate, Colorado, administers the only private free land program in the United States through democracy. The cooperative provides many social services to its members and employs clean sources of energy, promotes recycling, requires organic practices and is a culturally and religiously diverse and inclusive community[1][2][3]
The community has 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.[4] The newspaper reports that dams, dikes, reservoirs and other major works are being undertaken within the cooperative.
Agate is located at (39.439756,-103.999157). It is located about four miles outside of Agate.