Hey everyone, I wanted to be transparent with you about something I’ve been thinking about. I’m realizing more and more how much work goes into running this platform - filming, editing videos, organizing interviews, managing content, bringing people in through Instagram, answering questions, and keeping everything moving forward. I genuinely love doing it, but it takes a significant amount of time alongside my other projects, farm work, and consultancy opportunities that are starting to come in. Right now, I’m putting around 3 extra hours into this every single day on top of my job - sometimes more (when filming). Because of that, I’m considering introducing a small monthly contribution for access to the platform - something in the range of 5€-10€ per month. My thinking is that this could help in a many ways that would benefit us all: - Make the platform more sustainable long-term - Allow me to keep producing quality content without burning out - Build a more committed and engaged community, rather than having lots of people join, take one look, and never come back. - I also want to take the quality of this platform to the next level. I don’t just want to keep making videos from home - I want to travel more, visit farms and projects in person, sit down face-to-face with growers and practitioners, and bring back real on-the-ground interviews and insights that we can all learn from. I also want to offer mini-courses, I’m working on a course on Stratification which will be quite detailed and want to do the same for important concepts such as Succession, the Macro-Organism and ect… All in all, that will take more of my time, planning, and travel costs, but I believe it could make this platform far more valuable and unique. Having some support from the community would give me more freedom to reinvest into this project and make it the best syntropic agroforestry learning platform possible. This isn’t decided yet - I genuinely want your honest feedback before making any changes.