Permaculture Playing Cards (KS)

[Don Boyer]

It's ALREADY FUNDED, with over $20K in two days, despite being quite expensive in small quantities: $20 for one deck, $30 for two.

Can someone tell me with some degree of authority what "permaculture" is?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/permaculture-playing-cards

BTW: look at the four of spades before going to the last image and tell me if you can find the hidden name in the picture.  It's one of the reward tiers - have your name hidden on a playing card in the deck.  Kind of interesting, actually.  (In the bottom image, the left picture is the actual hidden name, the right picture is another possible method for hiding a name in a card.)

[Alex Willis]

permaculture is permanent agriculture.  You don't till, fertilize, sow and repeat.  You have a natural selection of foods typically found locally in the wild and you harvest that.  We do it unintentially.  We have wild things that grow out of our compost heap to include all kinds of squashes, tomatoes, lettuce, watermelon and this year...corn!  We eat what we want and let the rest go to seed and it regenerates the next year.  However, most permaculture is about harvesting berries, bark, roots, wild plants that regrow and offer a constant food source.  Again, we do this completely by accident as I hate weeding the gardens.  I'm getting a deck as my wife has recently taken up foraging exercises with the kids.  You'd think there was a zombie apocolypse just around the corner.  The guy has a great site and a big following so no surprise his deck is a big hit. 

[Rob Wright]

Looked at this again to see how it's doing-$56,000 with 8 days to go. I'm amazed at how many people are willing to spend that much on these cards. I think they pretty cool, but I'm not spending that much.
KS is a fickle thing. Why this has funded high, and Randy's deck is only at 12,700.

[Alex Willis]

Looked at this again to see how it's doing-$56,000 with 8 days to go. I'm amazed at how many people are willing to spend that much on these cards. I think they pretty cool, but I'm not spending that much.
KS is a fickle thing. Why this has funded high, and Randy's deck is only at 12,700.

He already has a committed following on his website with like minded people.  It's not a surprise the funding was high. 

[Don Boyer]

Looked at this again to see how it's doing-$56,000 with 8 days to go. I'm amazed at how many people are willing to spend that much on these cards. I think they pretty cool, but I'm not spending that much.
KS is a fickle thing. Why this has funded high, and Randy's deck is only at 12,700.

Simple.  The deck has an appeal outside of the collector community.  Tyler Deeb's deck generated practically no interest among collectors when it first appeared on Kickstarter.  I should know - I was one of the disinterested parties.  But when it started approaching record funding levels, people around here stood up and took notice.  It helped that he made some design improvements.  High design aficionados were the key demographic.