Jim Richardson

WOW Thank you all for your responses.

What I stated as an Idea is not cast in stone. It was designed to get some ideas churning. I realize now that what I am trying to do is over my head so at this time the crowd funding is a NO GO. I am pursuing a conventional Loan. Once we get up and running we will be looking at ways to generate income from this property. Teaching Permaculture, Cob, Rocket Mass and Masonry Heaters. All Ideas are welcome and if you just want to bitch me out for trying Oh well!

But again thank you.

Miles,
The goal on the property is to set up a training facility to teach Permaculture, and Cob building. To take our ideas into the community and not just teach how to have a small farm but make a City lot a place where you can raise the food you will need for your family. How to bring community together to support one another.
We will show how if you are a renter you can put a garden on the property you rent and become sustainable and not break your wallet doing it.


How many years would you suggest?


Thank you

I am in need of some help for an up coming project. I am going to try and purchase a pice of property and want to do a crowd funding to pull it off. it is 9+ acres with a house built in 1938. the land is all ready organically farmed in a small way.
My crowd funding will kick off around the beginning of March. We need to raise 180k to pull this off over the 60 days of funding.
Some of my thoughts for raising money
divide one acre into the equivalent of 9 city lots and for 5k a person can come down and design a site and and have use of the produce of it for 2 years.
On each of the plots we would build a 250sqft cob cottage with rocket mass heater. for 5k a person gets to design and build the cottage with the use of it for 3, 3day periods a year for 2 years.

Just wondering if you would have an other thoughts on this?

I am scrambling to pull this off. the Sellers like the idea of us doing this and have given us 90 days to see if we can pull it off.

Thank you for any input.
Jim and Elizabeth