Miguel Castro Jr Work Plan

Build a rocket mass heater in the California location to enable replicable heating methods for a worm farm at FeF during the winter.
Train 2 worm farmers to operate and grow system to full production.
Insulate worm room
Build sprayer system for soil/worm food holding area
Finish processing and packaging area
Finalize price points with retailers
Educational aquaponics demo setup for Nevada County resilience gathering on 6/10
Attend Greenermind Summit 2012 to reinforce networks understanding of project goals 6/14-6/17

Select soil supplier after soil inspection
Build ~300 sq ft building with sheltered processing area(doubles as my living quaters until full production is reached and utilizes the entire space; approx. 6 months)
Build rocket mass heater
Work with Marshall Hilton to design bicycle-powered harvester for processing the worm castings and increase efficiency by an estimated 50-60%
Standardize manufacturing process to facilitate worm farm consulting and training for community based worm farms
Develop methods of manufacturing innovative part designed to retrofit common 5GAL buckets into worm farm production units
Scale-up worm farm facilites (soil input at $20/cu yd to castings output at $270/cu yd bulk; estimated 1200% ~value added processing)
Standardize worm production to match fish food supply needs of future aquaponics system.
Work on CAD with all project
Organize tools and shop (Meticulous application of 5S to FeF)
Develop collaboration with National Congress of American Indians
Fabricating
Agriculture/farming
General construction
Develop small scale aquaponics to be scaled up after we all learn the fundamentals and process involved in our own food production
Work with Marshall Hilton to design future CEB worm farm/aquappnics/dwelling structure for implementation, documentation, and replication

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