Kickstarter for the Low Tech Laboratory Movie!! April 2023

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The Polyculture Project






I have a lot to learn about brining trees into polyculture systems.  I am excited to read this compilation and play with these ideas.

Here is the thread:
https://permies.com/wiki/211030/ebooks/Essential-Guide-Growing-Fruit-Nut#1769246

70 hours to go!

I am amazed by how fast we are flying through this stretch goal!   Almost to $95k already!

Go Polyculture Project!

I can't believe there are less than 72 hours left!  

We've locked in the $100K stretch goal and I am fangirling so hard!  If we can get to $100K, all $100 and up backers will get access to a live webinar with Dr. Elaine Ingham!!!  She's going to talk about soil microorganisms and how to interpret their messages.  This will be an awesome webinar.  

I think we can do it.  Let's go!



Learn more here:  https://permies.com/wiki/213802/Interpreting-Soil-Micro-Organism-Messages

$94,949!!

Yesterday when i posted close to the goal, it pretty much updated sneakily as I was posting. Here's hoping...

Goodbye $95K! $100K is on the horizon!  

The Polyculture  Project's Tree Guild eBook Bundle (173 pp.)


Dr. Elaine Ingham's Live Webinar on Interpreting Soil Micro Organism's Messages


To back the kickstarter, or adjust your backer level,

click here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/low-tech

$95 779!!

I'm delighted that I've finally been able to be the first to catch when we hit the stretch goal!

Great work on yet another amazing Kickstarter!

Does anyone know if a recording of the Dr Elaine Ingham Webinar will be made available to $100 and up backers please? It's not really practical to watch it live for many of us (particularly those of us who live on the other side of the clock)

Dragan Smith wrote:Great work on yet another amazing Kickstarter!

Does anyone know if a recording of the Dr Elaine Ingham Webinar will be made available to $100 and up backers please? It's not really practical to watch it live for many of us (particularly those of us who live on the other side of the clock)

We have settled into a delightful path with these webinars.  We offer the live, interactive event as a stretch goal because it is so beefy.  And if everything goes well and we manage to record it and do all the other stuff so a recording is available, we have been offering the recordings for ten bucks, and people with access to the live thing can get the recording for five bucks.

Ohh!   shiny new stretch goal!


https://permies.com/wiki/213802/Interpreting-Soil-Micro-Organism-Messages#1798800

Yay!  This is great!  The kickstarter is doing so well!

$98,049!!

So close! And it went up by $100 in lthe last 5 minutes- wow
$99,552!!

Even if the project is funded already:

By supporting the movie project, will one support a movie-creation (with important knowledge), which will be available for the public after it's been funded here, of will it then in the future become a digital product people must (can) buy?

Thanks for clarifying.

Yes.

One of those two.

Maybe both.

In the past, we have set a movie like this up for digital sale.  The free heat movie is one example: https://freeheat.info

We have tried to make several excerpts available for free:



We have made one of the plans available for free:  

https://permies.com/3dp

We are trying to find ways to:

   - infect more brains with this stuff (free and non-free)

   - pay for more events, more video and incubate future projects

   - find ways for more permies to make an income with permaculture stuff

With each passing year, we seem to find ways to get better with this stuff.  I suppose some people can see that we are making a massive global difference.  And others will see that we are doing it all wrong.  Whichever turns out to be right, we are, at the very least, doing something.

Can I get just one item from the long list of gifts for donating?

The shave horse plans is all I need and want.

To answer this question, I need to unravel two tiny bits:

    - there is no donation.  Kickstarter gets pretty pissy around that word.  Plus "donation" would suggest that you give me money and then run away.  I might not even know who donated!  Kickstarter is where you back a kickstarter - sorta like buying things months in advance.  Thus providing the project with operating capital to complete it all and get you your thing-a-ma-bob.

   - the stuff we are offering are not gifts.  Maybe "bonus goodies" or, in this case, "kickstarter rewards."

The way we do all this is to process it all en masse.  So there might be 300 people that get a thing, and we have a way to processing all 300 in about three minutes.   So, if you sign up for the kickstarter for a level to get the plans you want, you will get a bunch of other stuff too.  I suppose you could ignore all the other stuff and just take the one thing you really want.  Maybe later you might like the other things too.  Or not.  

Another path is to wait until the kickstarter is over ...  maybe a month, maybe two.  And then the plans you want will probably be available for sale.

Does this answer your question?

Somebody (with the initials J.J.) raised their backer level from $15 to $100 and THAT is what put us over $100k!

paul wheaton wrote:Somebody (with the initials J.J.) raised their backer level from $15 to $100 and THAT is what put us over $100k!

Wow!  Perhaps J.J. Abrams, director of the latest Star Trek movies, is a fan of our film!  

Thanks, J.J.!!!

100k stretch goal reached!


Dr. Elaine Ingham's Live Webinar on Interpreting Soil Micro Organism's Messages



105k stretch goal:

Michael Judd's PawPaw Course (6 hours)


The stretchies just keep getting better!

“Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine . . . but you have saved the best till now.”

We've reached out $100K stretch goal!  All $100 and up backers now get access to



https://permies.com/wiki/213802

We've got just over 24 hours until the campaign ends.  I think we can knock out a few more stretch goals!  Up next is



https://permies.com/w/212480

Back the Kickstarter, or adjust your backer level: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/low-tech?ref=1vr8ez

Reminder of all the stretch reached so far:
1. Greenwood Apprentice from Mortise & Tenon https://permies.com/t/211622
2. Anna Hess - Soil First Gardening movie    https://permies.com/t/211958
3. Green Planet Films Beekeeping Movie   https://permies.com/wiki/143535
4. Kelly Hart Alternative Homes movie  https://permies.com/wiki/211706
5. Complete set of Tiny House mags from 2022  https://permies.com/wiki/208679
6. Anna Hess Soil eBook Bundle  (200pp total) https://permies.com/w/soil-book-bundle
7.  Fermented Soda Class from Golden Goat Herbalism https://permies.com/wiki/212116
8.  Alan Booker - Regenerative Scales of Permanence https://permies.com/w/203293
9.  Home Mushroom Cultivation Class Videos https://permies.com/t/212599
10.  DIY Chicken Coop Plans eBook (198 pp.)  https://permies.com/wiki/212622
11.  Justin Rhodes' Homestead Design Course (4 hours) https://permies.com/t/213402
12.  The Polyculture Project's Tree Guild eBook Bundle (173 pp.): https://permies.com/w/211030
13.  Dr. Elaine Ingham's Live Webinar on Interpreting Soil Microrganisms https://permies.com/wiki/213802

I did some 'mathing' as my girls like to say and all stretch goals so far add up to about
$510 in added value
For $100 backers, every dollar gets them $5 back in rewards. Now, that's a deal!!

You are all so awesome!  I am excited to see over $100k already!   Really really great!

       $101,181!

The Low Tech Laboratory Kickstarter now has 1799 Backers, which means it has now surpassed:

Lightbulbs (58)
Wood Burning Stoves 2.0 (920)
Permaculture Playing Cards (1243)
World Domination Gardening (1404)
PDC + ATC (989)
Rocket Ovens (1647)
Free Heat (1598)

Still trailing:
Better Wood Heat (2022)
Better World Book (2768 - Most Backers Ever!)
Truly Passive Greenhouse (2140)
SKIP Book (2574 - wow!)
Garden Master Course (1822 - almost there!)

Yeehaw!  $102,055  &
1802 awesome supporters

I am sending out a monthlyish

Less than 24 hours left!


Please show your support for this style of money grubbing! Monies traded for stuff! This will give us our operating capital for permies.com and wheaton labs for the next year! And we have SO MANY ideas!

"I back the kickstarter because it saves baby seals from nuclear soda bottles"  -- Sunflower Rogers

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/low-tech?ref=be5f3d

Beau Davidson wrote:The Low Tech Laboratory Kickstarter now has 1799 Backers, which means it has now surpassed:

Lightbulbs (58)
Wood Burning Stoves 2.0 (920)
Permaculture Playing Cards (1243)
World Domination Gardening (1404)
PDC + ATC (989)
Rocket Ovens (1647)
Free Heat (1598)

Still trailing:
Better Wood Heat (2022)
Better World Book (2768 - Most Backers Ever!)
Truly Passive Greenhouse (2140)
SKIP Book (2574 - wow!)
Garden Master Course (1822 - almost there!)

2768 ...   we have less than 24 hours ...  and only 19 new backers so far today ...  my guess is that we might get 20 or 30 new backers by the time we are done ...  

It's just nice to think about 2768.  That is a lot!  My thinking is that each kickstarter would be more and more peeps.  I guess we had some special magic with that book!

$102,780!!

The countdown is going TOO FAST! Only 21 hours left!! Shooooot!