I'm surprised to hear of this need for growth and probably don't have a clue as to why the need. I read your hopes to found housing and gardening within an old store and parking lot, so maybe that is related to the need for growth. It might be to increase the chances of being seen by others who'd like to try the idea. I don't know. I'll just sit back and see what happens.

Well, I hope it goes on Facebook as you would like. I distrust it. I still have an account on FB, but I seldom use it and almost never post anything other then birthday greetings.

With all due respect, I think "either we grow or we shut down" is a pretty fierce binary, also I think you could possibly apply the rule of thumb, " the opposite of one bad idea is another bad idea". What metric are you using to measure the success of this venture? How big will be big enough?

I have also come to distrust the notion that organizations have to grow. I am currently watching the community garden organization that manages the community garden where I rent plots "grow" to a multi-million dollar non-profit organization so they can build a new campus that will house all the things they think will help people get into gardening. Because of that glamorous project, there has not been the time nor attention given to new gardeners or even to the old ones that makes it a "community". Granted, COVID has put a spanner in the spokes and unfortunately the leadership of this organization has gone overboard on all of the usual "preventative" measures to the point, we gardeners couldn't meet together in the garden for any group project or social get together even if we wanted to. Hows that for loosing sight of your purpose? It makes me sad. They were doing just fine before and in fact there were at least two gardens that always had surplus plots and were under utilized which is why my garden buddy and were able to get as many as we have to grow as much as we have.

I am not saying that this will happen to you or the organization that you are planning, but it is worth bearing in mind that once you get to a certain size, then there are other masters that have to be satisfied before you can satisfy your purpose. It seems to me that you have grown this site just fine and that there have been a flock of new members of late and that you have fulfilled your purpose of getting the ideas of Green Wizardry out there in a small and very useful way. All managed by you, no donners to keep satisfied, no social media censors to satisfy, no federal regs to satisfy in establishing for 501c3, nor tax forms to fill out. You have kept it very simple and humble and I think quite successful.

I offer this as my observations of other non-profit organizations I know about and what I have learned by participating in them at various levels. It isn't meant as a challenge to your plans or even a critique. As Teresa said, it is your site and you will do as you see fit.

That sounds like a good compromise: teasers on Facebook and the real meat here.

On that subject, as a semi-public person already (thanks to Peschel Press) you can post over my long pieces on Solar tubes, insulating my desk, and your review of our two books to Facebook.

As long as I don't have to go there!