!!!!!!!!!!! Garden Master Course Kickstarter

I am sending out a monthly-ish

Just three days left in the Kickstarter!


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master?ref=e24xdc

We have knocked out so many stretch goals, $100 and up peeps get the full 35+ hours of the Garden Master Course, PLUS:

- Neil Kinsey's Hands On Agronomy video workshop
- Justin Rhodes' How To Raise A Year's Worth of Meat Chickens in 58 days
- All 2018 issues of The Stockman Grass Farmer
- Tour of Wheaton Labs: The Movie
- Helen Atthowe's Creating a Backyard Fruit Forest live webinar
- Plans for the first Wofati Greenhouse
- Plans for the solar dehydrator with rocket assist
- 3-night stay in the tipi at wheaton labs for the top 4 backers to opt-in
- Robert Kourik's Lazy Ass Gardening ebook
- Alan Booker's Epigentics and Seed Saving webinar
- Garden Master Course companion guide
- Top 12 backers get their likeness animated in to the credits
- Spanish subtitles
- Ma'ikwe Ludwig's Together Resilient ebook
- Amanda Smith's Garden Mastery Academy videos
- Anna Hess' The Ultimate Guide to Soil
- Paul Wheaton webinar "Replacing Irrigation with Permaculture"

AND some movies for new backers (each as a gift code):

- World Domination Gardening 3-movie set
- Building a Cob Style Rocket Mass Heater
- Round Wood Timber Framing: the Berm Shed Movie

AND:

- Alan Booker's Soil Microscopy presentation
- Ditches and Swales movie from World Domination Gardening
- 10 hours of podcasts with Helen Atthowe
- Access to the Secret Inner Circle forum
- Cool public thanks
- Your name (if you want) on all the videos

This is all happening so fast!  By the time you read this, we might have nailed down another stretch goal!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master?ref=e24xdc

I tried to start it last night, but the server became wonky.  Seems to be working okay this morning.

https://permies.com/wiki/202866/Uncle-Mud-RMH-Greenhouse-Webinar

Over $130k!

permies.com/consult

Back the GMC Kickstarter and help us reach the next Stretch Goal!!!

    1,481 backers!

     $131,020!

     $132,175!

We hit the 135k stretch goal!!

Back the GMC Kickstarter and help us reach the next Stretch Goal!!!

    $135,285!

We passed $135,000!!! (I guess Beau needs to sleep sometimes, Jeff beat me to it though)

I’d like to see more then one stretch goal at a time. It might help people get on board. I upped my pledge as soon as I saw Mudd’s heating a greenhouse webinar. Just my $0.02.

Good luck permies!!!

Another Goal met  Over $135,000 now

Another stretch goal has been reached 😊
I appreciate that there are Stretch goals and I understand having the bar set at $100 for most of the rewards even though $50 is enough to get the course. … Afterall, it is a fundraiser. I increased my pledge so that I would be able to get some of the stretch goals. But I have found a few not applicable to the 99.93% majority of backers. For example, Goal $75,000 – 3 night stay at Tipi for top 4 and Goal $135,000 – top 4 people get one free hour consultation with Paul. At the moment, there are 1,517 backers,, 11 of these pledges are $400 of more. So these 2 stretch goals are aimed at only 0.7%
I’m not sure if having stretch goals aimed at such a small percentage of backers is encouraging or discouraging more backers. Some of us are struggling to be able to support the $100 pledge.
Another “point of curiosity” though …. At the moment, there are 201 backers at the $80 level …. Not sure why they don’t up their pledge by $20 to make their pledge $100 so that they can receive the stretch goals …. If each backer in this level did raise their pledge, that’s another $4,000.
By the way, how will all the extra funds raised by the Kickstarter be used?
Looking forward to maybe one or 2 more stretch goals being met, hopefully for all $100 and up backers. 😊
Also, very excited about enjoying the Garden Master Course! I truly appreciate all the “extra gravy” that the Stretch goals are providing 😊

Cate Mawson wrote:But I have found a few not applicable to the 99.93% majority of backers. For example, Goal $75,000 – 3 night stay at Tipi for top 4 and Goal $135,000 – top 4 people get one free hour consultation with Paul. At the moment, there are 1,517 backers,, 11 of these pledges are $400 of more. So these 2 stretch goals are aimed at only 0.7%
I’m not sure if having stretch goals aimed at such a small percentage of backers is encouraging or discouraging more backers.

What we will do is when the survey goes out, ask everybody at $100 and higher "do you want this?" And for something like staying in the tipi,  there might be only 6 people that say "yes".  So the top four of those people ...   probably one of those will be something like $107.

The point is, it goes to the top 4 backers that want it.  And there are a lot of people adjusting their pledge to $101 or $111 or whatever trying to guess what might get them high enough to get that stuff.

Cate Mawson wrote:By the way, how will all the extra funds raised by the Kickstarter be used?

HHH?

These funds are our operating capitol for permies.com and wheaton labs projects.  

So you are seeing video of an event here.  But there is a lot of subsidy to build up our infrastructure to host a winter event.  And it is the funds from kickstarters that guaranteed the event would happen.  And it is the promise of coin from the kickstarter that gets the video to happen, and, of course, the editing.

So here we are, using a massive web site that comes with a lot of expenses.  And we are churning out heaps and heaps of free stuff all in the hopes of affecting positive global change.  

And wheaton labs is doing all sorts of physical projects to prove and demonstrate all sorts of stuff.  

It all takes coin.

Some places are non-profits and they beg for checks.  We make stuff and sell it.  And others believe in what we are doing so much they add their stuff to our heaps of stuff.

     $137,105!

     $138,024!

Cate Mawson wrote:
Another “point of curiosity” though …. At the moment, there are 201 backers at the $80 level …. Not sure why they don’t up their pledge by $20 to make their pledge $100 so that they can receive the stretch goals …. If each backer in this level did raise their pledge, that’s another $4,000.

This actually had something click to me. I started out giving 80$ and then went to 100$, but on kickstarter it was left as 80$ plus 20$ extra. Because of this I was still registered as a 80$ backer. I changed it so I am now in the correct level (the 100$ Level), but if I did this, then others probably did too. So, many of those 200 backers at the $80 level might have just added 20 $ to their pledge, but not changed their level to the 100$ one. Does that make sense?

We are at 139.046$ now. 🤩

Ulla Bisgaard wrote:

Cate Mawson wrote:
Another “point of curiosity” though …. At the moment, there are 201 backers at the $80 level …. Not sure why they don’t up their pledge by $20 to make their pledge $100 so that they can receive the stretch goals …. If each backer in this level did raise their pledge, that’s another $4,000.

This actually had something click to me. I started out giving 80$ and then went to 100$, but on kickstarter it was left as 80$ plus 20$ extra. Because of this I was still registered as a 80$ backer. I changed it so I am now in the correct level (the 100$ Level), but if I did this, then others probably did too. So, many of those 200 backers at the $80 level might have just added 20 $ to their pledge, but not changed their level to the 100$ one. Does that make sense?

I had to go through a process to figure this out, too. I have found Kickstarter's website difficult to navigate, and not intuitive at all. I'll bet you're exactly right about this! Then there may be hundreds of unhappy $100 people who don't get their stretch rewards...

Rachel Lindsay wrote:

I had to go through a process to figure this out, too. I have found Kickstarter's website difficult to navigate, and not intuitive at all. I'll bet you're exactly right about this! Then there may be hundreds of unhappy $100 people who don't get their stretch rewards...

Yes, I hope the staff her, figures out who they are, so they can get their rewards. Otherwise  they are going to be very pissed.

Ulla Bisgaard wrote:We are at 139.046$ now. 🤩

And now it has dropped to $138,810.  It looks like one cancel and one pledge adjustment.

paul wheaton wrote:

Ulla Bisgaard wrote:We are at 139.046$ now. 🤩

And now it has dropped to $138,810.  It looks like one cancel and one pledge adjustment.

I was the pledge adjustment. I realized that because I just added 20$ to my 80$ pledge, I wasn’t registered as a 100$ backer. I went in and changed that this morning. So I am still pledging the same, now I am just in the correct level.

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We're trying to convince Paul to mint NFTs as a Kickstarter stretch goal.  What do you think - good idea/bad idea?  

Tell us here: https://permies.com/t/203300/NFT-permies

There is now an opening with "goofballs"!



Wanna see your name in animation in all the GMC videos?  Adjust your backer level and select the "goofballs" reward tier here:
https://permies.com/link/gmc-page10-6knjh1


Here's some past animations for reference:

An excerpt is now available

US$ 139,791

...so close to 140k!!!

At 3:35 in the excerpt video there's a typo (I think) in the words that appear visually: "h higher" instead of just "higher". If a comment like this should go elsewhere instead, just say so.

US$ 140,191
Streatch goal reached!

And we're over $140,000! New stretch goal reached and closer than ever to $150k!

Let's get it.

dang it, i missed it

Joylynn Hardesty wrote:US$ 140,191
Streatch goal reached!

Joylynn,

Which of my movies would you like placed, for free, in the PIE-only forum for 24 hours?