stalkmarket on Nostr: SUCH good feedback and reflections!! Very frankly, the whole concept and business is ...
SUCH good feedback and reflections!!
Very frankly, the whole concept and business is new! Really open to all ideas on how best to structure it quantatively.
As of right now, we act as the operations arm for a number of farms out here in Boulder County. Helping to connect the "consumers" (a word we don't really like, so we call them Soil Supporters") with farmers (or "Soil Stewards") to help with the marketing, distribution, and financial movement.
We work with a compost company out here called Compost Colorado, and they have members (individuals and organization) who drop their food waste off with them which is then picked up and brought back to the farms. By layering in the food pickup/drop off with this business we can do distribution at a very low cost since we're already going to farms, houses, and stores.
As for the shares, we don't really structure in terms of equity. One day we'd love for carbon tracking tech to actually be good enough to have that data be the way we determine regen ag effectiveness but it's not quite there yet. So right now we are incubating this entire model and idea through Yellow Barn Farm (the demo site and biz incubator) and Drylanda Agroecology Research (DAR, a non-profit that does holistic land mgmt at Yellow Barn and other sites).
If DAR knows their entire budgetary needs to manage the 80 acres at YBF, we can effectively know what their ops cost is to produce X lbs of meat, veg, eggs, etc (except that eventually we really want to move away from lbs since it's not a very good way to gauge value). That translates to how many "shares" we can offer to the community at a specific rate.
So let's say 150 people pay $200/m or $2k year. That's $300k that can help fund DAR's ops cost and YBF's infrastructure upgrades. The food is then just a by-product of the "tools of the trade" of DAR's regen ag process and because their costs were covered by the service fee the members paid, the members then receive the "dividend" of food once that comes available.
I know it's a lot but super appreciate the thoughtful response and feedback. We know it's a total paradigm shift so any and all thoughts are helpful on how to tailor and simplify the message 😄
Very frankly, the whole concept and business is new! Really open to all ideas on how best to structure it quantatively.
As of right now, we act as the operations arm for a number of farms out here in Boulder County. Helping to connect the "consumers" (a word we don't really like, so we call them Soil Supporters") with farmers (or "Soil Stewards") to help with the marketing, distribution, and financial movement.
We work with a compost company out here called Compost Colorado, and they have members (individuals and organization) who drop their food waste off with them which is then picked up and brought back to the farms. By layering in the food pickup/drop off with this business we can do distribution at a very low cost since we're already going to farms, houses, and stores.
As for the shares, we don't really structure in terms of equity. One day we'd love for carbon tracking tech to actually be good enough to have that data be the way we determine regen ag effectiveness but it's not quite there yet. So right now we are incubating this entire model and idea through Yellow Barn Farm (the demo site and biz incubator) and Drylanda Agroecology Research (DAR, a non-profit that does holistic land mgmt at Yellow Barn and other sites).
If DAR knows their entire budgetary needs to manage the 80 acres at YBF, we can effectively know what their ops cost is to produce X lbs of meat, veg, eggs, etc (except that eventually we really want to move away from lbs since it's not a very good way to gauge value). That translates to how many "shares" we can offer to the community at a specific rate.
So let's say 150 people pay $200/m or $2k year. That's $300k that can help fund DAR's ops cost and YBF's infrastructure upgrades. The food is then just a by-product of the "tools of the trade" of DAR's regen ag process and because their costs were covered by the service fee the members paid, the members then receive the "dividend" of food once that comes available.
I know it's a lot but super appreciate the thoughtful response and feedback. We know it's a total paradigm shift so any and all thoughts are helpful on how to tailor and simplify the message 😄