The park I was envisioning in the center of the village was more a gathering place. Maybe a place to put a TV for the community to use. (I have a VCR, and a DVD player/tape player that I could probably box up and bring as a gift - I never use them!) You could center the communal areas off of the center...the kitchen, the school, a store for things you can't make yourself.

One of the things driving our thoughts on where to put what is making use of places where the forest has already been chopped down. We really do not want to cut any more of the forest canopy than is absolutely necessary.

What I see happening is development of a residential community within the larger Opok Farms space, that also hosts visitors and other kinds of group/vocational training activities and events for community and school groups. So all of the structures we are building now are meant to play a facilitating role in developing the residential community, which actually can't expand much at the ridge because that's where a lot of the farming fields are. Once the school village structures have been built by those who've chosen to reside there (in a place more appropriate for expansion and further urban development planning), these facilitating structures will still have a function in providing space for outside (non-residential) groups to visit the farm.

The area we've been thinking about for the school village is more at the edge of the agricultural fields with a couple of square kilometers available to expand into the forest. There used to be a rather large residence there so we know it's a livable space. We know there are springs on that side of the road but will have to do some work on them to make them accessible. There is water all over the farm - it's surrounded on 3 of 4 sides by rivers.

I do have some maps and will see if I can get them uploaded.