Visit Factor e Farm

All Visitors are Welcome at Factor e Farm

To further public education, participation, hands on experience and still achieve our facility goals, we need to make all visitors' time productive. Facility tours are $50 for the first visit. Other visitors must pick a volunteer project from below that they will work on when they visit Factor e Farm.

People who have helped us before and are welcome without the above facility tour fee. However, we still request that all visitors cover the cost of their stay, as noted in the next section.

All visitors will pre-pay before visiting, either by mail or by a one-time donation to our PayPal account. All payments are non-refundable. To arrange a visit, please send an email in the form of:

To: opensourceecology@gmail.com

Subject: {Your Name} {Visit Type} {Volunteer Item}

Fees

Our time is very valuable. As we are currently getting large numbers of real and virtual visits, we need to stay on track of our work. While we would like to engage in longer discussions on all of our work, the actual building of the world's first, replicable, open source global village comes first. Because of the increasing volume of visitors, we simply need to make sure that we are compensated for time spent away from real development work along our core mission. Here is our fee schedule, and special cases are considered on a case-by-case basis, as we go through reorganization of our organization.

• First-time visitors - everyone who comes to our facility for the first time pays a $50 per person tour fee. This applies to prospective Factor e Farm team members as well. The reason is that we have a low acceptance rate - primarily because our place is different than most people expect - so this compensates us both for our time and ensures greater commitment on the part of the visitor.
• Day volunteer visits - volunteers coming for unscheduled work days pay $20 per person for the first day.
• Organic volunteers - we provide housing for organic agriculture volunteers, but any extra food not provided by the farm must be covered by the volunteer.

The above does not apply to dedicated project visits. These visits are carried out under an explicit agreement, with a mutually agreed-upon proposal for a clear deliverable.

Note: We reserve the right to change these guidelines as we continue in our organizational development. Check the 'last updated' date on top of this page to determine the currency of this information.

Choose what level of participation you will volunteer at when you visit Factor e Farm

Virtual Visit Volunteering (after you donate, we build and post pictures/movies on the stages of your project online) <paypal>1</paypal> or Pay another way

• Build an Organoponic Raise Bed Remotely $225
• Build a Chinampa Remotely $1,000
• Build a Solar Cube Shelter Remotely $430
• Chick Hatching Remotely $51
• Build a Heavy Hoe Remotely $75
• Micro-Berm Around a Tree Remotely $50
• Remote Propagation of rasberry and other plants $50
• Make Biodiesel Remotely $85

Labor Volunteering (if you just want to visit to see how Factor e Farm works) Please send email before paying to ensure scheduled visit.

• Build a Raised Bed during your visit $50, takes one full day
• Build a Solar Cube Shelter during your visit $50, takes one full day
• Build Heavy Hoe $50, takes 1 hour, must run torch, grinder and welder
• Micro-Berm Around Tree $50, takes 1 hour
• Propagation of rasberry and other plants $50, takes 1 hour (in early spring)
• Make Biodeisel $50 takes one day

Project Volunteering Labor and Materials Purchase (if you're seriously considering becoming a part of Factor e Farm)

• You Build Your Factor e Farm Solar Cube $380 pre-paid, non-refundable, food is $10/day for length of visit
• You Build Your Factor e Farm Organoponic Raised Bed $175 pre-paid, non-refundable, food is $10/day for length of visit

Factor e Farm is also looking for:

• People to work on GVCS projects, and in particular, the Build a Village Program
• Organic farm volunteers for facility management, and food, energy, and housing provision.

What it's like at Factor e Farm

Please learn about what it's like at Factor e Farm before you come.