The Garden Master Course - Full Video - Kickstarter Prep

We broke 1100!!!


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master


      1102!

I agree that being new to permaculture can be overwhelming! There are so many ideas to try and principles to practice. The information available through permies has been invaluable. I have even made a few local permie friends through the site. Building a local community of restorative gardeners is the key to sustainable food. I am glad to be a among fellow goofballs.

Kimberlay Kiernan wrote:👩‍🦳  Yes! The topic and information is HOT right now. AT least where I AM, there are hordes of newbies that have escaped here from elsewhere, and have NEVER gardened but feel they MUST if they are going to survive. You know...."grow your own". Well a lot of us are new to the location, new to getting our hands dirty, have no idea how to start, what to plant, how to actually DO that, how much to watch, weed, water (www.) and when to harvest, seed save, grieve the loss of your experiment, gain the lesson, apply it and change and then start again. With GRATITUDE!  If that could come out ONLINE how incredible that would be. Besides your kickstarter bonuses are magical.

New earlybird rewards!  Have you seen the latest?

https://permies.com/w/earlybird

I love 1111.  It's kind of like my happy number.  It always seems to find me in lovely and hilarious ways.

So this was a happy moment:



1111

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master

"notify!" said in the same way Paul says "certified!" in the kickstarter video.

paul wheaton wrote:
$1 THANKS

$10 CANDY

$50 FULL-EVENT the full event as 360p streaming
 - the original raw feed video - unedited

$80 HD-STREAMING: the full event as HD streaming
 - all the video is edited, sound balanced and polished

$100 GLORY
 - everything in HD-STREAMING
 - plus your name on all the vids

$200 tiny download

$300 jumbo download

Are these the finalized price points for rewards? I'm working on my KS blog promotion and want to get it right!

Leigh Tate wrote:

paul wheaton wrote:
$1 THANKS

$10 CANDY

$50 FULL-EVENT the full event as 360p streaming
 - the original raw feed video - unedited

$80 HD-STREAMING: the full event as HD streaming
 - all the video is edited, sound balanced and polished

$100 GLORY
 - everything in HD-STREAMING
 - plus your name on all the vids

$200 tiny download

$300 jumbo download

Are these the finalized price points for rewards? I'm working on my KS blog promotion and want to get it right!

Nopers.  We made some changes.

check here for the official stuff

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/2091792217?ref=7rwbk0&token=855bfdf1

paul wheaton wrote:Nopers.  We made some changes.

check here for the official stuff

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/2091792217?ref=7rwbk0&token=855bfdf1

Thanks!

Leigh,

I would relish hearing YOUR thoughts on our current rewards.

paul wheaton wrote:Leigh,

I would relish hearing YOUR thoughts on our current rewards.

Paul, I think you and the team have pulled together a really good selection of rewards. Everything offered will have universal appeal to anyone who is interested in better-than-organic, permaculture gardening. Adding the past early bird goodies really sweetened the pot. I'm truly excited about sharing this kickstarter with my blog audience.

I'm also really happy that you put the full, edited video at the $80 pledge level. I know there was some discussion about making it higher, but I'm relieved you kept it there. I don't mean to sound like a cheapskate, because I think your projects have all been worthy of support. But I'm in that category of people on fixed income, for whom inflation has narrowed the options of how I can use my money. At $80, I feel like I can make a tangible contribution to something I believe in, and I'm thrilled that I can get access to this course!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master


      1131!

In a couple of hours, I am planning on sending an email to everybody.  This the moment to add any changes or polish.  Can I make it more concise?  

Garden Master Course kickstarter starts tuesday at 2


This is paul, the nervous nelly ...   We're close enough to being ready that I'm willing to announce a start time.  Tuesday at 2!

The earlybird list is ripe.  More than 1100 people have done the "notify me on launch" thing.

  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master

Clicking on "notify me on launch" gives you a 24 hour head start on getting the earlybird stuff on time!

The rewards and the video are now looking well polished. We have heaps of banners and graphics ready. We have posted a new video where Helen describes the difference between the Master Gardener Courses she used to teach and the Garden Master Course we recorded. Lots of people have asked for kickback codes. The movie from the last kickstarter should be ready later today.

  https://permies.com/earlybird
  https://permies.com/kickback
  https://permies.com/kickstarter
  https://permies.com/p/1603085/kickstarter-preview
  https://permies.com/p/1595803/banners

What am I forgetting? What do you need for this to work for you?

The movie from the last kickstarter should be ready later today.

Maybe add a lil link to the last kickstarter here since you mentioned it?

Everything else looks pretty darn good

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master


      1200!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master

1215!

Will we get some kind of certificate we can print out to show our moms? I want to impress my grandmother.

Bobby Discourse wrote:Will we get some kind of certificate we can print out to show our moms? I want to impress my grandmother.

If you attend the course in person, then yes.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master

1290!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master

1290!

24 hrs away from launch.....

QUESTION: In this line from the Kickstarter Story:

Learn how to propagate, save seed, space your plants, prune your plants, protect from frost, and rotate crops for long-term success.

Should the word 'seed' remain as is or have an 's' at the end? I understand that sometimes 'seed' can be interpreted as plural. So, 'seed' or 'seeds?'

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master


      1301!

Paul Sofranko wrote:QUESTION: In this line from the Kickstarter Story:

Learn how to propagate, save seed, space your plants, prune your plants, protect from frost, and rotate crops for long-term success.

Should the word 'seed' remain as is or have an 's' at the end? I understand that sometimes 'seed' can be interpreted as plural. So, 'seed' or 'seeds?'

I'd leave it as is.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master


      1322!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master


      1333!



Today's the day! Launch at 2!!!

I hope somebody will check the final number for "notify me on launch" just before we launch.  If nothing else, we want to know what the final number end up at.

A bunch of us met this morning to go over what do we need to do before the kickstarter launches today.  We ended up spending way too much time changing our minds about the title and the blurb.

I present ...  the results

The Beyond-Organic Garden Master Course

35 hours of video about increasing food production and problem solving for home gardens, commercial gardens or food forests.

What do you think?

Beau, have you doled out the "K" stuff for the last kickstarter?

I need to write a monthly-ish.  Anybody have the final list (as text) for the earlybird stuff?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-master


      1359!


       2 hours til launch!

paul wheaton wrote:Beau, have you doled out the "K" stuff for the last kickstarter?

Just got done fine-toothed-combing the Story.  Moving on to the "K" presently!

paul wheaton wrote:I need to write a monthly-ish.  Anybody have the final list (as text) for the earlybird stuff?

New Earlybird Rewards:
Early Spring chapter from A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen by Kate Downham
Justin Rhodes' Great American Farm Tour: Extended Cut
Angi Schneider's succession planting e-book & calculator
Nicole Sauce's Fermentation Quick Guide
The 3rd issue of Living Woods Magazine
Composting with Chickens eBook
Chapter 10 from Leigh Tate's '5 Acres and a Dream The Sequel'
Paul Wheaton's Permaculture Thorns Presentation from Exit & Build 2022
Practical Biodynamic Farming with Adam Klaus from Permaculture Voices
Grow Don't Mow eBook from Roots Down
Hotbed Plans + Self Heating Winter Greenhouse Plans eBooks from Dirt Patch Heaven


Repeats:
Gift code for The Berm Shed Movie
Gift code for Spring 2019 Issue of Communities Magazine: Community Land
Gift code for Learning to spin yarn on a drop spindle from R Ranson
Gift code for Thomas Elpel's Green Prosperity chapters 1-10
Gift code for Common Weeds And Wild Edibles Of The World (HD movie)
Gift code for Native Bee Guide by Crown Bees
Gift code for An hour long presentation by Tim Barker about ram pumps
Gift code for "Six Quick Stove Tricks" from Ernie and Erica Wisner
Gift code for A two hour long Farm and Animal Relationships presentation by Jacqueline Freeman
Gift code for Hugelkultur chapter from Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist from Michael Judd
Gift code for Uncle Mud's EZ Cob Rocket Stove from Chris McClellan (aka Uncle Mud)
Gift code for Thermophilic Compost for the Garden or Homestead pdf by Alan Booker



Do you want them with urls?

Beau Davidson wrote:Do you want them with urls?

Nope!  This plain text is perfect!

paul wheaton wrote:Beau, have you doled out the "K" stuff for the last kickstarter?

K added to all Free-Heat backers!  Except the people who backed with no reward.  Seems like those people should get a 'K' too though, right?

Folks like the indefatigable Bill Crim.

Beau Davidson wrote:

paul wheaton wrote:Beau, have you doled out the "K" stuff for the last kickstarter?

K added to all Free-Heat backers!  Except the people who backed with no reward.  Seems like those people should get a 'K' too though, right?

Folks like the indefatigable Bill Crim.

Definitely!

This is my first draft of the monthylyish.  I think this will be fine as is - no need to get into a lot more.

The kickstarter is now live!



(link)

The brand new earlybird stuff

- Early Spring chapter from A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen by Kate Downham
- Justin Rhodes' Great American Farm Tour: Extended Cut
- Angi Schneider's succession planting e-book & calculator
- Nicole Sauce's Fermentation Quick Guide
- The 3rd issue of Living Woods Magazine
- Composting with Chickens eBook
- Chapter 10 from Leigh Tate's '5 Acres and a Dream The Sequel'
- Paul Wheaton's Permaculture Thorns Presentation from Exit & Build 2022
- Practical Biodynamic Farming with Adam Klaus from Permaculture Voices
- Grow Don't Mow eBook from Roots Down
- Hotbed Plans + Self Heating Winter Greenhouse Plans eBooks from Dirt Patch Heaven

Past goodies for new backers

- Gift code for The Berm Shed Movie
- Gift code for Spring 2019 Issue of Communities Magazine: Community Land
- Gift code for Learning to spin yarn on a drop spindle from R Ranson
- Gift code for Thomas Elpel's Green Prosperity chapters 1-10
- Gift code for Common Weeds And Wild Edibles Of The World (HD movie)
- Gift code for Native Bee Guide by Crown Bees
- Gift code for An hour long presentation by Tim Barker about ram pumps
- Gift code for "Six Quick Stove Tricks" from Ernie and Erica Wisner
- Gift code for A two hour long Farm and Animal Relationships presentation by Jacqueline Freeman
- Gift code for Hugelkultur chapter from Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist from Michael Judd
- Gift code for Uncle Mud's EZ Cob Rocket Stove from Chris McClellan (aka Uncle Mud)
- Gift code for Thermophilic Compost for the Garden or Homestead pdf by Alan Booker

Thanks for your support!  Here is the link to the kickstarter!

(link)

And here is the thread where we are talking about the kickstarter:

https://permies.com/w/kickstarter

I think it's perfect.

Join us at the Garden Master Course Campaign Thread!

Garden Master Course Kickstarter - October 2022


Ready to pledge?  

Garden Master Course Kickstarter Page!

paul wheaton wrote:I hope somebody will check the final number for "notify me on launch" just before we launch.  If nothing else, we want to know what the final number end up at.

It was 1364 some 10-15 min before the launch .