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Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 9, 2012.

One week left!!!

Update #3 · May 2, 2012 · comment

Hey backers and urban farming fans,

We're entering our last week of this fundraising campaign and we're (only) around half-way to our $15,000 goal. The recent Buffalo News and Buffalo Spree articles were a great help, but we're really going to need to make full-court press to get the rest of the way there.

If we don't manage to make it all the way to $15,000, then we won't get any of the more than $7,000 already pledged by you wonderful folks. That's why we need everyone that believes in this project to get as many of their friends and family on board as possible. Tell your kids, tell your wife, tell your husband they're composting everything on the East Side!

In farm news, the folks at Michigan Avenue Farm have been busy prepping more beds, worm-shaped and otherwise, into a delightful and hopefully abundant garden that will be just as much of a pleasure to walk through as it will be to eat from. Photographs of the new beds will be coming soon to the Farmer Pirates website.

With the help of George Kappelt, a farmer in Lockport, the farmers at Common Roots turned over and tilled their nearly three acres last week, and now they're busy planting spinach.

Thanks again so much for all of your support! We're in the home stretch now and I'm sure with all of your help, we are going to get there and really blow up the composting spot!

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  • Pledge $5 or more

    5 backers

    CABIN BOY: A Genuine Urban Artifact (may include rock, concrete, or brick) from one of our farm sites, plus you can come sign your name on the pirate flag for our truck. Genuine Urban Artifacts are only available locally and can be picked up at the flag signing

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $10 or more

    32 backers

    POWDER MONKEY: A Farmer Pirates bandana plus a Genuine Urban Artifact, and you can sign your name on our flag

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $25 or more

    71 backers

    STRIKER: A Farmer Pirates compost t-shirt and you can come sign your name on our flag. There is no Genuine Urban Artifact at this level.

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $40 or more

    14 backers

    BOATSWAIN: A Farmer Pirates compost t-shirt and a set of seed packets to start your own garden.

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $60 or more

    22 backers

    GUNNER: A Farmer Pirates compost hoodie and a set of seed packets to start your own garden.

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $100 or more

    26 backers

    RIGGER: A bag of Heirloom Tomato Jerky from a Farmer Pirates Farm and a Farmer Pirates compost hoodie and t-shirt.

    Estimated delivery: Aug 2012
  • Pledge $250 or more

    6 backers

    PILOT: A guided tour of our four farms and a bag of Heirloom Tomato Jerky. Plus a Farmer Pirates compost hoodie and t-shirt. Tours are only available locally. We cannot bring our farms out of the city.

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $750 or more

    1 backer

    FIRST MATE: Farmer Pirates will board your ship (yard) and install a 100 sq ft garden with local compost and seed starts. Plus a Farmer Pirates compost hoodie and t-shirt.

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $1,500 or more

    0 backers

    QUARTERMASTER: A Farmer Pirates Jolly Roger flag to hoist from your mizzen mast and Farmer Pirates will board your ship (yard) and install a 200 sq ft garden with local compost and seed starts. Plus a Farmer Pirates compost hoodie and t-shirt.

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $3,000 or more

    0 backers

    CAPTAIN: Farmer Pirates will board your ship and host a pig roast.

    Estimated delivery: Aug 2012