Miguel Castro Jr Work Plan

Preparation and Planning

 * 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

At Factor e Farm

 * 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