Yes! Sharing my videos is the single best way to support me without spending a dime!
Commenting and actively engaging with my content also really helps me because the algorithm will only show my videos to more people if people engage!
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At Solarity Acres, I create free resources for gardeners who want healthier soil, better vegetables, and fewer expensive inputs.
Why donate
Your support directly allows me to continue making videos.
Every donation gives me more time to test practical soil-first growing methods, document real garden results, and turn those lessons into free videos, guides, and resources.
More experiments
Your support buys me time away from my day job to experiement and try new things, then share those findings with you.
Better resources
Filming, editing, writing, and publishing useful garden education without a paywall.
Ways to support
There are a lot of ways to support me.
The best option is the direct donation form because it helps the most without adding platform fees on my end. If you already use another platform, those options are here too.
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This is the most helpful way to support my work because it is the option where I do not incur platform fees.
Other options
Use the platform you prefer.
These are still deeply appreciated if they are easier for you.
Thank you SO much for your support.
Anything helps!
Solarity Acres creates free resources for gardeners who want healthier soil, better vegetables, and fewer expensive inputs.
If every person who watched my videos donated $0.10 I could fully fund multiple full lenth documentary style deep dives into big topics. I could interview the best farmers, and regenerative soil experts, hire editors, and drastically increase the quality of my videos. But unfortunately the actual number of viewers who choose to support my work financially is around 0.0004%.
Honestly? There's lots of people who need your money more than me, and I would urge you to give to more worthy causes first. But if you want to support regenrative agriculture, I will use your donation to make more videos and resources that will hopefully help push more people to grow their own food or support local food producers.
I'm wildely passionate about teaching people how to grow food, and I will persistently continue to improve my storytelling skills and make better and better videos for you.
The more support I receive from viewers, the more time I can spend making videos and the less pressure I'll have to find funding in other sources that may try to compromise my values. Your support directly helps me educate everyone about the importantce of a food system that is connected to nature.
I'm wildely passionate about teaching people how to grow food, and I will persistently continue to improve my storytelling skills and make better and better videos for you.
The more support I receive from viewers, the more time I can spend making videos and the less pressure I'll have to find funding in other sources that may try to compromise my values. Your support directly helps me educate everyone about the importantce of a food system that is connected to nature.
You'd be surprised how long it takes to make a high quality educational video that still is "engaging" enough to get views on Instagram. It takes me an average of 5 hours to make a single one minute video.
Between ideation, research, fact-checking, scripting, filming, editing, making sure the sound and visuals look good and consistent, and then writing captions, making thumbnails and posting the videos there's actually a lot of work to be done!
I could do things a lot cheaper and faster, but I will never cut corners. High-quality, factual and useful videos are the bare minimum for me.
Between ideation, research, fact-checking, scripting, filming, editing, making sure the sound and visuals look good and consistent, and then writing captions, making thumbnails and posting the videos there's actually a lot of work to be done!
I could do things a lot cheaper and faster, but I will never cut corners. High-quality, factual and useful videos are the bare minimum for me.
Actually, making money on instagram is very difficult if you aren't willing to compromise your morals. I can do paid ads, but I'm not willing to make a video advertising something that I don't actually use so I make a shockingly small amount from this.
My whole message is that you can build amazing soil and grow great vegetables without buying things. It turns out that advertisers don't really like this message. They offer me money all the time to sell you garbage you don't need and I consistently turn them down. My consistent and steadfast unwillingness to bend my values greatly limits the ways I can monetize my videos, which is why I'm asking for your support.
My whole message is that you can build amazing soil and grow great vegetables without buying things. It turns out that advertisers don't really like this message. They offer me money all the time to sell you garbage you don't need and I consistently turn them down. My consistent and steadfast unwillingness to bend my values greatly limits the ways I can monetize my videos, which is why I'm asking for your support.
Your donations will be directly used to support me to create more videos and resources for everyone. Camera gear and hard drives and editing software are all very expensive. But more importantly, the more support I receive, the more time I can spend researching, scripting, filming and editing videos for you!
Making high quality videos is very time consuming and I'm usually busy working my day job. Your support directly buys me time away from that job to actually invest into making videos and resources here for everyone.
Making high quality videos is very time consuming and I'm usually busy working my day job. Your support directly buys me time away from that job to actually invest into making videos and resources here for everyone.
Your support directly funds my work to create more free guides, high-quality videos, experiments, and better learning resources for everyone.
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Your support directly helps me make better videos, guides and courses for everyone.