GAMCOD1 - old budget

update!  see the new budget here:

https://permies.com/t/181416/permaculture-projects/GAMCOD-budget







gardeners:  about $120,000 for all five gardeners

project manager:  $42,000

videographer:  $42,000

$5000 bonus for each gardener reaching a million calories (and the other minimum requirements):  $25,000

$20,000 bonus for the gardener raising the most calories: $20,000

kickstarter takes 10%.

excavator:  $5000

materials: $5000

special advisors/commentators or guest appearances :  $10,000



What else should i budget for?

paul wheaton wrote:
What else should i budget for?

If not already owned at your Lab, perhaps calibrated equipment for measuring the volume, weight, and quality of the expected produce or crops.  This would help for determinate cultivars especially, which may have way larger volumes or weights involved than a kitchen scale could handle.

A nice Brix refractometer for the gardeners could help determine the relative produce quality.  Everyone could then objectively see which garden methods are producing the healthiest crops, not just the bulkiest or heaviest.

If the equipment in use is standardized and relatively available, it could enable others around the world to compare their numbers, too.

paul wheaton wrote:
What else should i budget for?

-organic material or atleast no spray material

-organic manures



the soil is so poor, chop and drop will not produce much in the first year.

to quickly get enough viable and productive soil, organic materials and manures need to be, at minimum, sourced and at best, stock piled for use.

failure to plan for this logistic will result in upset and discouraged gardeners who are used to copious availability of soil builders.

to just say 'oh, that'll be up to each gardener to source' will result in considerable friction

then, how each gardener chooses to use this material (compost, compost tea, vermiculture and all other methods) will distinguish the different techniques rather than how ferocious each gardener can compete for local organic material and manures.

as a measure of just how much material is needed; three large round bales of old hay per half acre is a good start.

manures, such as chicken and cow manures, for one year per half acre, would be three pickup beds full ( a pickup bed like Ranger Doug's in which a full 4'x8' sheet of wood can lay flat in the bed with the tailgate shut  -not some half bed wanna be city truck).

Quick couple ideas - thinking of this the way I would think through narrative tv/film production.

I think this could be a really incredible and wildly popular production - but I think your production budget should be a lot higher.

The project could start with a cohort trip to see Sepp's place(s).

Should include proposed budget for subsequent seasons of production, and ideally a huge bounty at the end of 7 years for the strongest plot.  $100k, or a million.  Or a less financially cumbersome reward - gets to keep all plots, or gets a big parcel or something.

Maybe we need to set up the questionnaire thing, one per role.   One for gardeners.  One for videographers and one for managers.

Have you considered making videography a bootcamp-style role? not sure how much that would reduce your overhead. Would still need a paid director of videography.

Beau Davidson wrote:Have you considered making videography a bootcamp-style role?

What do you have in mind?

Videographers would be compensate with room and food for the duration of their service.

Or a boot with video experience (if you have a gazillion boots, enough to spare) can do a morning or afternoon of filming as their work.

A way to capture additional video without hiring extra videographers for the role.

Quality of videography would be the biggest question. perhaps persuing dedicated, skilled yet entry-level videographers (or retirement age, or pro-bono professional videographers who are bonkers about permaculture) to join the video bootcamp for a set time-period could be an interesting idea.

For videographers, I think that for this project, the idea would be to offer a monthly rate that is competitive.  So if they have a family, they can rent a house nearby and do normal family stuff.   But if it is a single person who wants to tent it or something, that's fine too.  

see the new budget here

https://permies.com/t/181416/permaculture-projects/GAMCOD-budget