Sow Wild Landscapes Business Launch

Sow Wild Landscapes is an ecology-based landscape design company. We collaborate with residents to co-create an abundant landscape that fosters a symbiotic relationship between land owner and wildlife ecosystem. Our company seeks to empower people to reap a bountiful lifestyle in a regenerative manner. We look to increase the physical, mental, and spiritual health of those enjoying the landscape while benefiting organisms and natural cycles. We seek to facilitate the growth of the global intentional living community for positive social change. Sow Wild Landscapes  accomplishes this by incorporating principles of ecology, wildlife biology, water conservation, permaculture, and bioregionalism into our landscape services, regenerative lifestyle products, and educational opportunities. Sow Wild Landscapes aims to make the world a better place by increasing people's food security while enhancing ecological function on the landscape. Our business will also provide education opportunities and regenerative lifestyle products to help facilitate society's shift toward a more symbiotic relationship with the land.

Dan and Katie Machek received their Wildlife Management and Zoology Bachelor of Science Degrees, respectively, from Humboldt State University. Dan and Katie have worked as wildlife biologists in northern California working with a diverse array of animal and plant species. Their passion for ecology and permaculture has led them to this endeavor of incorporating these two ideologies into a way of bringing a more abundant, connected, and beneficial lifestyle to people and the planet.

We are launching this GoFundMe campaign to give our business a little momentum; a push in the right direction if you will. We are a young family with limited funds, but we feel like we have so much to offer to the community in skills and knowledge. You can help us actuate this potential! Help can come in the form of donations, likes, or sharing our message. Please help us share our message, dreams, and aspirations to make this world a better place. 

Here is our budget for our campaign to help folks understand what the money is going towards. We have included a description on some items to bring some understanding how certain items can be helpful.

Classes
- Salve making supplies $215 and Kombucha supplies $60, Total=$275

Foodscape Design and Installation
-iPad $599 (I have spoke to several landscape professionals and they have all said an iPad is extremely helpful when you are at a clients house to show them photos to help them understand certain concepts and designs, plant arrangements, etc. as well as a huge help with bookkeeping. 

-Invoice To-Go App $14 (This is an app that makes bookkeeping a snap on an iPad.)

-Business Cards $9.99 for 100 

-Resources/Information (books/magazines etc) $200

-100yd measuring tape $35.00

-Velum Paper $25 (drafting supply)

-Architect ruler $25

-Quality colored pencils $30

-3 Ring BInder $25 (used for samples)

 Total=$970

 -Permaculture Design Course $1,500-$2,000
(Funding for the class would help me get my Permaculture certification and more professional recognition)

Other miscellaneous materials to get us going

- Wheels for trailer $200 (As I was transporting a cord of wood, the treads on the OLD tires on my trailer flew off, I am so lucky I didn't have a blow out hauling the wood down the highway. Yikes! Having an opperating trailer is essential for the landscaping portion of the business)

-Fix chainsaw $90 (This is going to help me harvest wood for intalling mushroom plugs to cultivate mushrooms for the online farm store, sell innoculated logs, and incorporate them into designs for people's yards.)

-Drill for mushrooms $180 (You need a special kind of drill to be able to handle repeatedly drilling holes for mushroom plugs into hardwood logs so you don't burn up a drill.)

-Plug kit $15 (This stuff is essential to installing the mushroom plugs.)

 Total=$485

Other Miscellaneous details: licenses and fees

-Fictitious Business Name Statement = $120

Gifts for GoFundMe Donations (We need to show appreciation to folks donating to the campaign. We would have liked to make the gifts for the campaign, but with limited funds and two kids it seemed less and less of an option.)

($50) 15 Seed packets ($3) = $45

($125) 10 Save the Monarch Kit ($13) = $130

($325) 8 Garden bouquet Seed Tin Collection ($25) = $200

($725) 5 Bareroot fruit tree $30 (selected by us for your bioregion) = $150

($1,000+) 3 Redwood coldframe kit ($129) = $385

Total= $4760

GoFundMe tacks on their price...
GoFundMe 5% + WePay 2.9% + 0.30 cents per donation $4760 + $238 + $138.04 + ~$60 =
Grand Total $5200 


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