Jeff Bosch wrote:
bree kime wrote:I just took a look and it sounds amazing!
I always wanted to be a Master Gardener but I was disappointed after completing the education. My Master Gardener educators are very old school in the education and don't even know what permaculture is.
I'm a poor stay at home mom of 3 boys and for some reason all permaculture programs are very expensive. I can't afford any of the classes or programs offered by you and others. I appreciate that this is the most affordable thing I've seen. It's even cheaper then the Master Gardener program which costs $100 here.
While I appreciate that it's not very expensive, it would be cool if you offered scholarships for other programs. It's the poorest among us who will truly benefit from permaculture.
I know that every little bit helps me on my journey of creating an educational farm and seed company that accommodates the disabled community.
I'm definitely going to be saving up for this. I think it looks just what I'm looking for and maybe I could help update my fellow masters gardeners.
I can't wait. Thanks for this!
We do have the worktrade program: Bootcamp Worktrade
I'm sure it wasn't meant this way, but a call to work-trade in this situation assumes that the person unable to afford permaculture training is not working for an income already, or in Bree's case, it seems, as an unpaid caregiver.
Either way, a person requiring sponsorship might be least likely able to afford to step away for months at a time from a life barely supporting them at present to work, without income, towards training that will require yet further time away pursuing it...Not to mention the consideration of childcare.
Poverty doesn’t earn you more hours in a day.
Both the person lacking in funds and the person sufficiently remunerated (or sufficiently without life happenings, like illness, to support abundance) have time constraints. But only one of them can pay for a course without stretching 24 hours in a day to 36 in a work-trade scheme. It is often, as I’ve seen it, that the poorest have actually more time constraints, not less, and those niggling life-sucks, many times, are weighed by greater consequence, e.g., one day makes a 10x difference between survival or not for the poor than the rich, potentially.
I understand a scholarship model might not work for Wheaton Labs, but deep empathy and creative thinking that might enable someone to take steps towards improving their situation seems an apropos goal for a regenerative community.
I’m down for that: I am willing to donate to a scholarship fund with my next Kickstarter contribution (a kind of match donation)...or in some other creative way we think up.
