
Richard Perkins launches a Kickstarter for Ridgedale Farm Builds, a book with CAD plans and cut lists for 22 farm structures: egg-mobiles, brooders, a smoker for 50 birds, a slaughter facility, and more. PDF access starts in late April, hard copies ship around July.
Questions this video answers
22 projects.
Access in late April–May (year implied by video).
Around July (year implied by video).
Three weeks.
Moritz (described as a CAD wizard).
Chapters
Well, welcome to my Kickstarter folks. It's such a joy and pleasure to be able to launch this campaign for the Ridgedale Farm Builds book. And as you can see, this is just a mock up version. But can you. But it's the same size hefty brick as my previous book, Regenerative Agriculture, and this is really designed to accompany that other book. I've had thousands of emails over the last few years asking for plans for our eggmobiles, smokers, wash and pack station, things that people have seen in use through our YouTube channel or through our book. And so I've been collaborating with my friend Moritz, who's a CAD wizard, to put every detail of those builds down into step by step instructions for you. It's got cut lists, it's got materials lists and then detailed CAD plans that show you every single cut and angle and measurement and placement of connections, etc. It's also got photos of all of the things in build as well as in use to inspire you of how we actually use them on the ground, as well as short introductory written pieces at the start of each chapter that tell you why and how we came up with those designs. It's really beautiful to see this come together now and it's just amazing to look back on all the things that we've built. There's 22 projects detailed in here, from brooders to hernia free boiler pens, different dollies for moving them, slaughtery facility that's one of Europe's lowest cost approved slaughter facilities. Our bird smoker for 50 birds. We've got our improved caterpillar tunnel designs, our lean to nursery greenhouse, wash and pack station, how to put up windbreak around market gardens, things like how to trellis aspalias. We've got, it's just amazing low cost silos. We've got the iconic Ridgedale eggmobiles as well as our rollaway nest boxes that hundreds of people have been building around the world. And it's so cool to see what CAD does because if you were going to build any one of these designs, you'll do a way better job than we did because I originally designed all of these things in Moleskine notebooks without any precision, just having to use the old noggin for mathematics. And yeah, we've built up our farm at super low cost through using other people's waste and just thinking creatively. So this book is really for anyone who wants to mimic any of the things they've seen on our channel or if you in our book, et cetera. Who likes having a go for themselves, but wants the confidence of step by step instructions that just really spell out in detail how to start these projects, what tools you need, etc. It's so cool to see this come together and thanks so much to Moritz for his incredible skill with cad, bringing this to life in impeccable detail and accuracy. So I'm offering this along with the PDF version now. It obviously takes a few months to get the books turned around. This is just a mock copy for us to check the print, but if you want access to the book in late April May you can sign up for the PDF. If you want the hard copy Early Bird edition then you'll get that hopefully in July time. There's also combos with my old book Regenerative Agriculture in case you missed out on that and want to get both of them delivered to you either as PDF or hard copy books. The campaign's only on for three weeks. Hope you get behind it. So excited to bring this out to the world and see many more people except accelerating their processes. And if you were to build any one of the structures in this book, it's going to save you in your time and material wastage the cost of this book many times over. I firmly believe that this is extremely good value. So as you watch this now, the campaign is now live and you can see the link directly below this video. For the link straight to Kickstarter. Thanks so much folks. Don't, don't, don't don't.
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