Dear Miyawaki Cheerleaders, A few moons ago, Andrea Z pointed me in the direction of Art's Nursery as a great source of native seedlings. Silly me, I confused it with Art Knapp's Nursery both of which are in Surrey. Anyways, I finally realized my error and got a lot of good pricing data to the point where I can now announce that for the smallest 100% Miyawaki Forest 10 by 10 meters, and purchasing mostly from Nat's and Art's Nurseries, requires a plant budget of $4500 for the minimum 30 species required. We can recover some of that money by selling the many excess seedlings from Nat's and by growing our own. On top of that , add $1000 for excavation ($250 rental, the rest for transport and qualified operator for a full day). There should be a signage, fencing, irrigation etc budget (let's guess $500) as well... and so a total tentative budget of $6000 assuming the stakeholders will provide the labour and supervision and later maintenance work for free. Let's call that a baseline to work with for now.
Miyawaki Report - Jun 15, 2021
Miyawaki Report - Jun 15, 2021
Miyawaki Report - Jun 15, 2021
Dear Miyawaki Cheerleaders, A few moons ago, Andrea Z pointed me in the direction of Art's Nursery as a great source of native seedlings. Silly me, I confused it with Art Knapp's Nursery both of which are in Surrey. Anyways, I finally realized my error and got a lot of good pricing data to the point where I can now announce that for the smallest 100% Miyawaki Forest 10 by 10 meters, and purchasing mostly from Nat's and Art's Nurseries, requires a plant budget of $4500 for the minimum 30 species required. We can recover some of that money by selling the many excess seedlings from Nat's and by growing our own. On top of that , add $1000 for excavation ($250 rental, the rest for transport and qualified operator for a full day). There should be a signage, fencing, irrigation etc budget (let's guess $500) as well... and so a total tentative budget of $6000 assuming the stakeholders will provide the labour and supervision and later maintenance work for free. Let's call that a baseline to work with for now.