Hey there!
As you may already know, I've been running a weekend workshop called Creating an Edible Oasis in which we cover key concepts in Permaculture including how to design and install a complete food forest and actually do it as part of the course. It has been a total success and I just love getting the opportunity to share these things and actually generate a food forest through the course!
Next weekend, May 15-17 in Ventura, CA, I'll be running this course with a special twist. We'll be using this course to produce the "Creating an Edible Oasis" DVD through Walk Your Talk Productions. They are amazing and have given me a ridiculous deal to produce it in entirety. Most of the costs can be paid through the sale of the DVD, but paying up front for the videographer and some of the editing is a must.
So, I'm writing this email as a way of raising money to produce this video course and I have come up with some totally irresistible solutions for making it possible. (You know how I like to do it!).
I need to raise $500 by this Friday, May 13 to make it happen at all, and $1500 in the next month for the editing - but really, paying for it completely, ASAP is the best way for me to do this.
The easiest way to make the donation will be to send it to me through my paypal account. If you log into your paypal, you can choose to "Send Money" then send it to my email address: Devinfromheaven@gmail.com. Be sure to write a note about which donation option you are choosing in the message box below the order.
Otherwise, you can send a check or money order to:
Devin Slavin
PO Box 5705
Ventura, CA 93005
Please send me an email to let me know if you are choosing this route.
Here is a long list of outrageous offers that I'm putting on the table:
1. Pre-order the DVD: $25 (includes shipping)
2. $50 Donation = 1.5 hr conference call on Core Routines of Regenerative Design + PDF E-Booklet (Date TBA in June) + DVD Pre-order
3. $75 Donation = 1 hr., 1-on-1 personalized phone call on Mentoring in Regenerative Design + PDF E-Booklet + DVD Pre-order
4. $100 Donation = 1-1.5 hr. c\Permaculture Consultation and DVD Pre-order
5. $250 Donation = Consultation + Concept Plan + DVD Pre-order
6. $500 Donation = Consultation + Schematic Design + DVD Pre-order
7. $1000 Donation = Consultation + Detailed Design + DVD Pre-order
8. $2000 Donation = Permaculture Master Plan + DVD Pre-order
Or = Detailed Design + $1000 towards project implementation (labor cost only, materials not included)
Option: Add on 1 hr of personalized Mentoring in Regenerative Design 1-on-1 phone calls for $50 to any of these Donation options.
For the design options, you can choose to donate now and schedule a date to do the design somewhere through June 2010. Ultimately, each project is site specific and your needs (as well as the land's needs) will factor into what we will focus on.
Differences between Design Plans:
1. Consultation Vision and Goals, walking the land, talking about whats possible Key highlights and priorities (can be recorded audio or video)
2. Concept Plan Documentation of Consultation and sketching patterns of design at your place
3. Schematic Design Above + Planting concepts and patterns + Earthworks concepts + Locating greywater, etc.
4. Detailed Design Above + Detailed planting list, detailed design of systems such as greywater, water harvesting, food forest guilds, etc.
5. Master Plan Above + An in-depth survey and design of your land layers of essential information and details condensed into a booklet. Includes 5, 10 and 20 year planning
6. Mentoring - Customized coaching on specific permaculture projects or what you need to accelerate you along your personal, regenerative design journey.
To be clear, this is a donation system. You are not loaning me money. You are getting beyond the value of the donation through the service you'll receive.
Feel free to forward this to anyone you know personally that would be interested.
Possibly the most critical ways we can invest our funds now are in the education of how to create a world in which we all thrive together and the built systems that will allow us to do so. What I'm offering here are options for both. Thanks for being so adventurous and generous! I am that you will be thrilled with whatever you choose!
Love,
Devin
*Right now I'm grateful for creativity and miracles that happen in every moment.*
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Devin Slavin
Regenerative Design & Mentoring
AbundanceInBalance.com
Office: (831) 440-7525
Skype: AbundanceInBalance
Fresh video from Grow Food Party Crew Santa Cruz!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOG2ajvsi0I
Latest video from our Creating an Edible Oasis workshop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwIXhoIArVE
Check out the official Grow Food Party Crew video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwwHWln08Z4