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Growing a farm with crowd-sourced money

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.

Kickstarter is a website where people give money to support creative projects. It started in 2009, mostly to help artists and musicians. Now, inventors, people starting businesses and a growing number of farmers are raising money on this site for crowd-sourced funding.

Josh Brill and Meadow Squire grow vegetables and rice in Tinmouth, a town in the northeastern state of Vermont. Last year they used Kickstarter to raise more than 6,000 dollars to increase their rice production.

JOSH AND MEADOW BRILL: "Hi, I'm Josh, and I'm Meadow -- and we want to grow you rice! [Dog bark]"

Seventy-six people watched the couple's six-minute video and believed enough in their dream to send them money.

Growing a farm with crowd-sourced money

Another farmer in Vermont, Scott Nelson, raised almost 9,000 dollars. He wanted to document the growth and development of his farm to teach others who are interested in organic farming, as a video explained.

VIDEO: "At the end of the season, we will compile it all into a film documentary."

Bigger ideas have raised much more for some farmers among the projects on Kickstarter. In all, on a recent day, there were 4,500 creative projects seeking money on the site. Site officials reported three million dollars in weekly pledges.

To raise money on Kickstarter, people need to think of a project with a clear goal. Then they need to get the project approved by the site. Many project creators make a video to explain what their project is and why people should support it.

Projects have a time limit, generally about 30 days, to meet their funding goal. Kickstarter uses an all-or-nothing funding method. Projects do not get any money unless they meet their goal. Kickstarter gets five percent of the money raised, but only if the goal is met. Amazon.com takes another three to five percent for credit card processing fees.

To get people to pledge money, projects also include a list of thank-you gifts for different levels of support. Josh Brill and Meadow Squire gave supporters rice, seeds and, for fun, "good karma" points. They say they are happy with their experience using the site to raise money for their new rice paddies.

JOSH BRILL: "One of the key things that Kickstarter allowed us to do was reach out -- having the video online and being able to link with Facebook."

MEADOW SQUIRE: "It really was free advertising for us -- you know, so many people now know we're growing rice and they know more about our farming practices because we do a lot of alternative agricultural practices. And there's already so much anticipation about the rice coming that we would not have had if we just had gotten a loan from a bank."

Josh Brill says one promise of money came all the way from New Zealand.

JOSH BRILL: "When someone is willing to put up their money for your farm, that means something. It's like you would feel bad if you couldn't succeed for them."

And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. You can read, listen and learn English with our stories at voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Christopher Cruise.

rice paddy: 稻田

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(來源:VOA 編輯:旭燕)

 
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