 Even so, by the 1870s the community did not have enough adult members to do the work required to support the village's farms and industries which included broom making, garden seeds, medicinal herbs and extracts.In the 1880s, contrary to the Shaker Millennial Laws, they were increasingly in debt.About 1882 James Fennessey joined the community and soon implemented a plan to rent out land to farmers to create a revenue stream.