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FeF Miracle Orchard Workshop

  • Book done
  • Ongoing streams of income
  • Personal mission of 1000 Miracle Orchards
  • Hybrid on Open Source
    • “I’ll be a chameleon”

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Stefan: workshop modules as per NZ tour www.beyondorganicnztour.com on the table

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Economics of a Miracle Orchard

  • See http://beyondorganicnztour.com/ - under video
    • Add Enterprise Plan - take an Acre Model U Pick
  • https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/#search?q=Recolte
  • Focus on Open Source Nursery - how, source, etc.
    • Releases from 1990 - one time patents - from Plant Protection
    • One spreadsheet column - year
    • Reinventing swarm breeding for the Populace
  • Currently: $1/ ft2 to establish in a turn key manner
    • Contractor established - $43k/acre - $20/hour
    • Maintenance cost - involves mowing, pruning, weed+replant, some spraying, trapping insects
      • Yearly time requirement - 1 person can maintain 2 acres on a seasonally full time basis. 1-2 months in spring; harvest & package=40% of production cost
  • Revenue Long term : $1/ft2 in year 5-6; scalable to 2 acres per person
    • For 1st year can be profitable, if you spread investment over 10 years; 30% plantout; Using annual vegetables and annual animals first 3 year
      • 8200 plants per acre; 450 trees; 450 shrubs minimum (1-3 desired); 16 perennials per tree. Perennial vegetables: egyptian onions, chives, garlic,

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Nursery

  • Trial and error - the big cost to the nursery
    • Try a lot and go to ¼ of that - find your “weed crop”
    • Find within your soil-climate combination
    • Small scale can amend things
    • Choose the right place for the plant, than making the site right for the plant.
  • Shrubs from cuttings
    • 400 shrubs - 2 people in a morning. Otherwise, $10/plant
  • Desirable plant list? Main model - start with
    • currant - red
    • black (Ben Sarek, Lomon series from Scotland)
    • gooseberry - best locally
    • raspberries - not really good from
    • rhubarb -
    • haskap - pay to plant breeder (U of Saskatchewan - Dr. Bob Bors) = 50 cents a plant, http://www.fruit.usask.ca - prairie gene seed bank. Zone 2! It’s easier to go south than to go North
      • They released certain cultivars - certain nursery has a monopoly. First release rights.
    • Crowdsource
  • Ex: Haskap with 20 varieties. 3-4 years to fruit. Genetic diversity.
  • Philip Rutter. But then there is Transylvania - lots of peasant propagation. 100 year old pears and apples. Went through all types of disease resistance.
  • Poland - world’s leader in mechanized harvest
    • Stefan has a list of manufacturers
  • Poland and Kazakhstan - Catherine Pex - movie -The Origins of the Apple

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Nursery

  • Sources
  • How to grow plants yourself
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Revenue Share

  • 50/50 off the net
  • Costs include food, travel, accommodations
  • OSE covers plant material and durables not included in above