Wrapping things up..

Slowly but surely, I'm getting ready to see my family again.
During my first week, I suggested to build a donations box to be set up in local businesses to boost the finances.
Well, today, I received word from the carpenter across the street. And I had to have  aquick sit-down: he would ask for 70 Euros for a box the size of my lunchbox! Well, you've seen the draft, maybe. 70 EUROS!!! His suggested material would be mahogany a wood grown in the tropics, really nice and sturdy. You could use it for garden furniture, too. I definitely need to talk to management about it.
On the plus-side, it would help a local business to stay on the market.
I definitely finished my nusery presentation. In it, I at first suggested to have the Seed Stand to be certified to raise trees which could be sold. But that would bring in only very little money. We're talking 50 cents per tree.
The alternative is to hage people donate money for the trees to be planted. A website asked for 34 Euros for a tree. That's a bit more plausible, if on the hefty side. If the donor paid 34 Euros, we'd have to make sure, the trees will also get planted.
So, pricewise, somewhere between 50 cents and 34 Euros would be a good thing. I would say.
BUT, to take it  a step further, the Seed Stand still should be certified and, if at all possible, managed so it could be FSC certified. NOW, that is sustainability, because it would employ a forestry worker at first to clear the Stand of unwanted trees and later to harvest the seeds as well as thinning out dying trees.
I also found out, that it IS possible to leave comments on the blog. I even answered- 2 weeks later. BUT, I DID answer :)
As I said, wrapping things up.