Yesterday we hit our benchmark of $5000. Thanks so much to everyone for all your support – and it’s not over! There is now enough money to get started, as I continue to seek the funding that will get us to completion. This project will go forward. All donations going forward allow me to include more farms in the project, toward the ultimate goal, and full sample, of fifty farms. Let’s see what we can do in the 18 days left. I’d like to continue to use these updates to talk about not just the fund raising (while it’s happening) but also about the research itself. So, where are we at in the process, and what have we learned so far? First – where we are. The project has four phases. 1. Identify possible permaculture farms – through internet searchers, email list queries, snowball referrals, and this. This has been going on since the summer. 2. […]