Gardening playing cards for gardeners and homesteaders Kickstarter

        112% funded!

This is Paul Wheaton's 16th Kickstarter!

When you’re bonkers about permaculture, you might seem a bit crazy to your friends and family.

Twelve years ago, we came out with a deck of Permaculture Playing Cards.
The idea was simple: give these decks to people as gifts so you seem a little less crazy.

And it worked.

People loved them so much that they kept asking for another deck.
So we started a long list of ideas, over a hundred in total, and chose the best ones to bring you something new:
the Purple Deck.


Why It Works

Here’s the magic: You hand someone a deck, maybe that cousin who thinks you’ve lost it because of your bizarre gardening techniques. They open it up, pull out two random cards, and spend about seven seconds looking at each.

That’s all it takes. Two cards. Fourteen seconds. And suddenly, they’re hooked on permaculture.

Each card is designed to spark curiosity and share one fascinating slice of the gardening, homesteading and permaculture world, from rocket cooktops to willow feeders, from forage gardening to cleaners you can eat.

What’s Inside the Purple Deck




Kickstarter kickback program!

You can get paid to share this project!

https://permies.com/w/kickback

I will need to increase my pledge, I really want to get Mike's maple syrup video course.

Liv Smith wrote:I will need to increase my pledge, I really want to get Mike's maple syrup video course.

When Mike was visiting Wheaton Labs, he brought some of his homemade maple syrup.  It was by far the best I have ever tasted.

I am really excited to learn his technique.

$9999!

Thank you everyone!  Almost 10k!

        $10,000!

Glad to have helped.  I know I would like to have purchased the first set of playing cards, but I'm a relatively new Permie, so... Have you given any thought to printing up a small batch of the first set and offering it along with one of the nw set for a possible stretch goal or an additional way to market them?  Please, please please!

Kathy Vargo wrote:Glad to have helped.  I know I would like to have purchased the first set of playing cards, but I'm a relatively new Permie, so... Have you given any thought to printing up a small batch of the first set and offering it along with one of the nw set for a possible stretch goal or an additional way to market them?  Please, please please!

Can you give me an idea of what a stretch goal might look like?

Maybe adding to your pledge like  $25 to $50 or based on the cost of reprinting First deck.  Since I have no idea what the print costs are or how many you'd have to print to be feasible or how many you think we would be able to get rid of in the Kickstarter, so "it depends" is always the answer.

Lets use the $50 pledge increase, and  you can print just 100 and think the Kickstarter would use those up, then the cost of would need to be less than you would collect with extra pledge money.  In this case you'd get $5,000, so printing needs to cost less to be worth your while.  Lots of assumptions in that example.

Kathy Vargo wrote:Glad to have helped.  I know I would like to have purchased the first set of playing cards, but I'm a relatively new Permie, so... Have you given any thought to printing up a small batch of the first set and offering it along with one of the nw set for a possible stretch goal or an additional way to market them?  Please, please please!

Hello Kathy!

I would love to see another stretch goal!  A reprinting of the original cards would be so cool!  They are really beautiful.  


You can still buy them if you want to check them out.  Here is the link: https://gardener-gift.com/

Congratulations on getting funded so quickly!

That maple syrup course looks great.

Kathy Vargo wrote:Maybe adding to your pledge like  $25 to $50 or based on the cost of reprinting First deck.  Since I have no idea what the print costs are or how many you'd have to print to be feasible or how many you think we would be able to get rid of in the Kickstarter, so "it depends" is always the answer.

Lets use the $50 pledge increase, and  you can print just 100 and think the Kickstarter would use those up, then the cost of would need to be less than you would collect with extra pledge money.  In this case you'd get $5,000, so printing needs to cost less to be worth your while.  Lots of assumptions in that example.

If this is the case, i would think it would be smarter to just buy the cards that we have.  You could get them right now - in time for the holidays this year.  

If we wanna talk stretch goals ....   maybe something like $200,000 ...   we could upgrade the old deck to "third edition" and maybe include a few decks for the $100 and up peeps.  

But to even talk about that sort of thing, i would like to see the kickstarter doing a lot better right now.


As is, I have just a few of the old cards left.  And when they are gone, they are all gone.

We had a guy ask about the art being done by AI.  All of the art is done by andres.

paul wheaton wrote:We had a guy ask about the art being done by AI.  All of the art is done by andres.

I love the way Andrés Bernal has brought these ideas to life with his images.  He has a really beautiful way of incorporating enough detail to show you how to do a thing.   It is like teaching skills through art.



Thank you Andrés for making these cards so magnificent!

i get a kickstarter dm

In the age of AI and its impact on both environment and culture, I'm immediately suspicious of any art posted without credit. Can you guarantee that AI was not used in the production of this set?

i reply

We updated the page to talk about andres being the artist. And added it to the faq.

he replies

Lovely, thank you.

After a few hours i don't see him backing.  And the dm thing says "not a backer".  So i write

Are you going to back my kickstarter?

he says

I am not planning on it.

So i guess he is just cruising through kickstarter ranting about ai stuff?

paul wheaton wrote:We had a guy ask about the art being done by AI.  All of the art is done by andres.

Just making sure everyone knows that Andres is the name of a real human artist, not a new AI persona.

$11,000!!

Thank you everyone!  

I am really looking forward to this



from Mike Haasl.  Here is some other fun stuff with Mike!






https://permies.com/t/270831/giant-log-stairs-plans

I am looking at this how to make maple syrup course from Mike Haasl.  It looks like Mike will be teaching us a wood fired technique for evaporating the sap.  I think it is really neat that all the energy to create the syrup could be produced on site.  

For sure!  The wood can come from on site and the maple trees likely will be on site too.  Other than maybe $50-80 of equipment, the main cost is time.  Andres' team did a really good job putting my footage together into something I think is useful :)

paul wheaton wrote:We had a guy ask about the art being done by AI.  All of the art is done by andres.

There are a few projects around that are being sneaky about AI images, so that is probably why you're being asked.

They are excellent pictures, way better than anything AI could do.

We have an idea to make an eBook called something like "Permaculture bits and bobs".  Each page would feature a card and we would add a bunch more info.  

So here is the card for the solar food dehydrator with rocket assist.  For the page for this card ...



CLICK HERE to go to the solar food dehydrator and help us with:

  - should we add five or six more points?

  - maybe expand on some of the points already made?

Ideas?  Words?  Prose?  

        $12,085!

We have an idea to make an eBook called something like "Permaculture bits and bobs".  Each page would feature a card and we would add a bunch more info.  

So here is the card for round wood timber framing.  For the page for this card ...



CLICK HERE to go to the round wood timber framing card and help us with:

  - should we add five or six more points?

  - maybe expand on some of the points already made?

Ideas?  Words?  Prose?  

I want the kickstarter to go faster!

Add to the kickstarter RIGHT NOW and I will give you a gift code for the full Garden Master Course.  

Deets about the garden master course:

  https://gardenmastercourse.com

To get this just add to the kickstarter between this moment and the moment that we hit $15,000.  Specifically:

  - new backers at $100 or more
  - $100 and up backers raising their backer level by at least $1
  - backers at less than $100 raise their backer level to $100 or more

If you have the Garden Master Course already, you can give this code to a friend.  And if you don't have it, you probably want to give it to yourself!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-cards?ref=8eeuu5

I love these cards! Such a pity the international postage is so high.... any thoughts of having a print your own version available?

Nancy Reading wrote:I love these cards! Such a pity the international postage is so high.... any thoughts of having a print your own version available?

Hello Nancy!


This is the best deal we could find for the shipping.    It does seem like a lot!  


It sounds like an e-book may be in the works!  It would have all the artwork and there is more space on each page so we can fit a lot more content.

        $13,002!

Nancy Reading wrote:I love these cards! Such a pity the international postage is so high

I wonder how much a brick of cards weighs?  How many bricks could be packed into a suitcase?

While i live in Poland, I am making my order to be shipped to family in the US, and will be asking them to bring my brick next time they come back here.  

If a brick weighs 2lbs, then that means around 20(?) of them could be placed into a single suitcase and brought into Europe, considering the weight of the suitcase itself.  50lbs is the limit I think.

Samantha Lewis wrote:It sounds like an e-book may be in the works!  It would have all the artwork and there is more space on each page so we can fit a lot more content.

That would be great Samantha - I've backed anyway without a reward since I think the postage is not where I want my money to go!

Good morning!

  $13,638!

Thank you everyone!!

        $14,008!

Excited for the brick I pledged for! And for the project in general! I love the first deck and look forward to adding this second deck to my collection and sharing the rest to expand the permaculture knowledge.

$509 to the stretch goal.

Just backed it

Closing in getting the stretch goal.  Maybe in the next few minutes?

        $15,082!

Looks like I was the one to push it over $15,000.    I look forward to seeing the new deck of cards.