James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
My name is Justin Husher. I’m a third year, first generation Cleveland Farmer, where I own and operate two distinctive small farms. They’re aptly named Old Husher’s Farm and Old Husher’s Perennial Expansion Farm. Therefore, I’m sometimes aptly called Old Husher aka Old Hush aka the Old Dirty Farmer. The farms total about 28,000 square feet in size, which is about a third less than an acre. The two plots are separated by about 10 miles; and to get from one to the other, I have to crossover Cleveland’s Mythical West to East Side Divide.
I formally got into plants in the mid-90s during my undergrad. I earned a Botany degree from Miami University in 1998 and did some amazing things as a senior. These included a plant collecting expedition to Guyana, South America complete with beans and rice every single day and river trips in dugout canoes with Amerindians. Less gloriously, I also performed some basic research on mushroom spore discharge, which turned into a publication for the prestigious Mycologia (nerdy mushroom science journal). It is my humble opinion that this research helped form a base for some of famed mushroom author, Dr. Nicholas P Money’s work.
After college, I moved to Portland, Oregon, where I camped/hiked/backpacked for five years and hob-nobbed through some mostly dissatisfying corporate jobs. I kept dreaming of owning a farm some day. Filled with family and affordability concerns, me and the missus moved to her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio in 2004. Turning a recession frown, upside down, my attentions began to learn and focus on Urban Farming in 2007.
I always thought I’d be bored with city living at this point in my life. Bored with things like rock n roll, micro brews, restaurants, museums and the Theater; and, I’d be living out in the country, owning a small little farm somewhere. At the tender ripe age of a third of a century-plus, that country living farm is a far cry from anything that I want (no disrespect to my fellow country farmers). Rather, I see Urban Farming as an integral part of the new food frontier, working on micro-plots and decentralizing distribution; and I’m completely excited to be a part of this new wave. Plus, I still get embarrassingly, energetically enthusiastic about live music, and the barrel-aged brewing revolution is just upon us now. Everything starts on small scales.
Some Hyperlinks:
http://thegardenlifeandtimesofjustinhusher.blogspot.com/
http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/devnews/oldhushersfarm022411.aspx
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