The Gardens Across Iowa! App™

Public Notice

Civilian Restoration Corps™, Gardens Across Iowa!™, Gardens Across Iowa! App™, and subsequent and forthcoming Gardens Across [state name]! App™, Gardens Across America! App™, and Gardens Across Earth! App™, were invented and are owned by Sondra Wilson. All inventions shall be patented as soon as she is awarded damages (see Wilson et al v. Trump et al) or as soon Wild Willpower PAC receives a sufficient level of co-tributions, whichever comes sooner. If Sondra is elected Iowa Governor, all proceeds from any and all such technology shall go toward the common benefit of future Iowans: to ensure the protections of civil rights, help kickstart brilliant inventors and innovators, and help people in need. Any theft of my inventions — bootlegging or pirating, for example —shall be prosecuted and will incur civil penalties. Scammers Beware!

Purpose

The App will enable Sondra Wilson to direct the development of The Model Garden, which will be replicated across the state via Civilian Restoration Corps’ Gardens Across Iowa!™ teams!

How the App Works

Notifications

Centered around Iowa’s median annual frost date (April 20), the App provides notifications for exact dates various garden-related tasks need to be performed. Examples:

Highly-Efficient Gardening Techniques

Double-planter technique for potatoes

A clean, simple, portable way to grow potatoes, allowing gardeners to simply lift the inner pot to pluck potatoes. A great way to maximize space within your garden. To grow potatoes earlier in the season while there is still danger of frost, put a tarp over the ground to enjoy an earlier harvest.

Above image from A Piece of Rainbow’s Facebook Page, used for First Amendment purposes in accordance with the U.S. Copyright Office’s Fair Use Policy and the Fair Use Doctrine.

Cucumber tipi

Vine cucumbers love to hang, allowing them to grow larger and longer, with stronger vines, and without yellowing and flattening on the underside. The large leaves grow up the tipi and provide shade to retain water within. Cucumbers like a lot of water, so this creates a perfect environment for the fruits to thrive.

Above photo by Transjardins, used for First Amendment purposes in accordance with the U.S. Copyright Office’s Fair Use Policy and the Fair Use Doctrine.

Rain gutter-planter hanging strawberries

A semi-shady overhang to guard the plants beneath from direct sun doesn’t get more gorgeous than this:

Above photo by HouseOfJoyNoiseBlog, used for First Amendment purposes in accordance with the U.S. Copyright Office’s Fair Use Policy and the Fair Use Doctrine.

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I. Purpose

The purpose of the App is to:

Quickly and easily teach Iowans efficient methods for growing garden crops. The App makes growing a robust, successful garden, with minimal effort, accessible for anyone.

Connect Iowans with our Iowa Sponsors. Sponsors receive:

A personalized in-store certificate with their logo on it. Certificates are designed, produced, and delivered to Sponsors by Wild Willpower PAC’s Gardens Across Iowa! Campaign™. Each year a unique new design is created, making them serve also as collector’s items. See Appendix A for photos of in-store certificates for our 2025 Sponsors, Perfect Plantista and Mucky Duck Pub.

In-app advertising. The logos of the 5 Sponsors nearest to the User are located at the bottom of each Entry.

Sponsors may provide a Special Offer available exclusively through the App, which Users may receive in two ways:

In-store Special Offers. To activate the Offer, Users may go into the place of business and thank them for sponsoring Gardens Across Iowa.

Online Special Offers. Sponsors may provide a link to the Special Offer which will be available by clicking on the Sponsor’s logo.

Users may swipe away Sponsors they’re not interested in; then the next closest Sponsor will appear. Users may hide Sponsors they’re not interested in.

Deeper connection with their customer base. Sponsors offset the cost of the App for Users, allowing for $9.99/year retail for the App. Proceeds accumulated through the Gardens Across Iowa! Campaign™ will be used to purchase viable land throughout Iowa to create community gardens. The premise of this movement is that everyone should have a place to legally grow at least some of their food. The fact that Sponsors are assisting with this cause will make Iowans very happy to support Sponsors.

One of my inventions, the Gardens Across Iowa! App™ (“App”), makes CRC’s Gardens Across Iowa! program feasible. As Governor, I will create a commission to manage:

A.) Creating Database Entries — Several types of Database Entries (“Entries”) need to be made for each type of crop that can be grown in Iowa. Several of these have already been developed behind-the-scenes. The App works by providing the users with notifications each type a garden-related task needs to be performed, or if a task needs to be performed soon. Notifications are given based upon Iowa’s median frost date (April 20), so the App directs users to perform tasks on the ideal date for the purpose of producing the best crop. Users will be able to toggle on and off plants that they do or don’t want to grow.

For each notification, an Entry needs to be created behind the scenes. Here are the types of notifications users will receive (and therefore, an Entry will be created behind the scenes for each notification embedded into the App):

1.) Prepare to Germinate. Many crops do not need to be germinated indoors. Some, however, do. These notifications indicate to the user that soon it will be time to germinate a particular crop, and to be sure to have everything ready. If the user requires material items to germinate (e.g. Homesteading Starter Kits™, heating pads, soil) they may click the product from within the notification to order it. SAMPLE NOTIFICATION.

2.) Time to Germinate. These indicate that “Today is the ideal date to begin germinating [name of plant] indoors.” By clicking the notification, users are given step-by-step instructions. SAMPLE NOTIFICATION.

3.) Prepare to (Trans)plant. [section incoming – much is finished behind the scenes]

4.) Time to (Trans)plant. [section incoming]

5.) Automate the Watering. [section incoming]

6.) Subsequent Plantings. [section incoming]

B.) Overseeing App Development — The development of the new technology, through the financing of qualified app developers.

C.) Creating certificates and online advertising for business sponsors — During early stage development, only Iowans and Iowan-based businesses will be allowed to become sponsors. Sponsors receive an in-store certificate, in-app advertising enhanced by location services, and they may make a special offers available exclusively through the app. Customers receive special offers once/month from each sponsor via thanking them for sponsoring Gardens Across Iowa! Sponsors will be be given the opportunity to become initial shareholders for the Gardens Across America!™ and Gardens Across Earth!™ Apps, and Gardens Across [State Name]! Apps (use of the technology will be leased to other states for the benefit of Iowans. In turn, sponsors shall be required to align with Wild Willpower PAC’s Prime Directive and Code of Ethics, as found in the About section.

II. How It Works

The App provides Notifications to Users on specific dates in order to alert them about the need to perform various garden-related tasks, such as germinating, transplanting, caring for, or setting up automatic watering timers for nearly any crop an Iowan might want to grow in their garden.

Notifications throughout the App are based on Iowa’s current median frost date: April 20.

The App provides the following six types of Notifications. Due to the fact that not all crops need to be germinated indoors prior to being transplanted in the garden, Notifications which contain the “G” symbol indicate that the crop that the Notification pertains to should be germinated indoors prior to being transplanted.

G – Prepare to germinate. These entries are provided two weeks prior to the recommended date to begin germinating seeds. These Notifications include a supply list. The list includes:

The heating pad that Gardens Across Iowa! Campaign™ recommends, and
The Homesteading Starter Kit™ w

G – Time to Begin Germinating. These

G – Preparing to transplant into the garden. This may includeHardening and preparing to transplant (e.g. into a garden, raised bed, cold frame, or other location in the garden)

Transplanting. including which companion plants they ought to be planted next to

Caring for.

Setting up automatic watering. Instructions for setting timers to attach to hoses to provide the ideal amount of water for the particular plants. Timers will initially be selected via research and Wild Willpower PAC’s Amazon Affiliate account. Afterward Wild Willpower PAC

Provide step-by-step instructions on how to grow nearly any type of garden crops (e.g. corn, eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, herbs) someone who lives in Iowa might want to grow. Users may toggle on or off, any crop they do or do not wish to grow.

Enable users to make in-app purchases for:

Garden-related products mentioned within the instructions (e.g. seeds, Homesteading Starter Kits™, watering timers, heating pads for sprouting seeds), and

Benefits

The App has real potential to

Reduce resource scarcity in urban areas,

Reduce environmental stress and degradation (iii) . App sales represents revenue stream #1: the App costs Users $9.99/year.

Definitions

“Developers” refers to:

“Database Entry Team” – assigned to create Database Entries using these templates [link coming soon]..

“App Developers” – create the App so that it operates in the manner described herein. Owner retains all rights to the App and the coding. App Developers shall retain [X] percent of each app sale, thus creating residual income. In turn, App Developers agree to provide any and all tech support and troubleshooting, and necessary and/or logical improvements and/or repairs, maintenance, and any other type of similar and/or supplementary labor.

“Database Entries” (aka “entries””) are currently being developed by Wild Willpower PAC’s Gardens Across Iowa! Campaign™. There are two categories of Database Entries:

G -Entries – indicate crops that need to be germinated indoors, then eventually hardened and transplanted into the garden. Developers call these G-Crops. G -Entries teach how to grow G-Crops. App users may read G -Entries via clicking on Notifications which appear on the user interface. Users

Preparing to germinate. These entries are provided two weeks prior to the recommended date to begin germinating seeds. Not all crops require to be germinated indoors.

Germinating. These

Preparing to transplant into the garden. This may includeHardening and preparing to transplant (e.g. into a garden, raised bed, cold frame, or other location in the garden)

Transplanting. including which companion plants they ought to be planted next to

Caring for.

Setting up automatic watering. Instructions for setting timers to attach to hoses to provide the ideal amount of water for the particular plants. Timers will initially be selected via research and Wild Willpower PAC’s Amazon Affiliate account. Afterward Wild Willpower PAC

Entries – indicate crops that do not need to be germinated indoors, but instead can be planted directly into the soil (or raised bed, cold frame, etc.).

Each Database Entry contains Each entry contains step-by-step instructions for either:

Each database entry contains the logo or similar branding of the five business sponsors who are located in nearest proximity to the user. This is one of two primary features made possible by GPS responsive.

efer to two categories “Heads-Up Notifications” or “Directions”; these are t

“Notifications” are received by the user on various dates throughout the calendar year. There are 5 types of notifications. Back-end developers (“Developers”) refer to two categories “Heads-Up Notifications” or “Directions”; these are t

“Database Entries” (aka “entries””) are currently being developed by Wild Willpower PAC’s Gardens Across Iowa! Campaign. Each entry contains step-by-step instructions for either:

Preparing to germinate. These entries are provided two weeks prior to the recommended date to begin germinating seeds. Not all crops require to be germinated indoors.

Germinating. These

Preparing to transplant into the garden. This may includeHardening and preparing to transplant (e.g. into a garden, raised bed, cold frame, or other location in the garden)

Transplanting. including which companion plants they ought to be planted next to

Caring for.

Setting up automatic watering. Instructions for setting timers to attach to hoses to provide the ideal amount of water for the particular plants. Timers will initially be selected via research and Wild Willpower PAC’s Amazon Affiliate account. Afterward Wild Willpower PAC

Purpose

Prototype

The prototype for the Gardens Across Iowa! App™ (prototype to create App – see Phase II)

In order to develop the App, first we’re building the Gardens Across Iowa!™ Google Calendar. It integrates directly into the your current Google Calendar to provide you with:

Precise dates to plant various garden crops based on Iowa’s frost date (~April 20). For example:

On Jan. 26, users receive this notification, “Two weeks from now is the ideal time to begin germinating hot and bell peppers indoors. Here are the supplies you will need…” Soon you will be able to purchase any supplies you don’t have right through the Calendar (which in turn helps support this project). We are only seeking the best, most affordable products in order to save you time on research.

On Feb. 9 the Calendar will alert you with this notification that it is time to germinate your peppers.

On May 1 you will receive this notification, “Ten days from now it will be time to transplant your pepper sprouts into the garden. Now is the time to harden your plants and prepare the soil.” Again users click the notification to receive directions for doing these two tasks.

On May 11 you receive this notification to transplant them into the garden, again with step-by-step directions.

The Calendar contains several entries for various crops now, however with your support Wild Willpower PAC will be able to hire our student-led team to:

Vastly improve the entries we currently have in place (including adding photos), and

Add numerous entries for a wide variety of garden crops and herbs.

The Calendar also groups each plant with their companion plants. For example, corn, beans, and squash grow exceptionally well together. Beets and turnips are also companion plants. The Calendar integrates companion planting techniques throughout to make planning your garden simple and fun.

There are also many plants that should not be grown next to each other which are also indicated within the Calendar.

Additionally, we are vacuuming the internet to collect the most efficient, aesthetically-pleasing techniques we can find. Here are just a few examples:

Double-planter technique for potatoes

Cucumber tipi

Rain gutter-planter hanging strawberries

A semi-shady overhang to guard the plants beneath from direct sun doesn’t get more gorgeous than this:

Oh my gourd! – what a gourdgeous tunnel!!

Advertising Opportunity for Businesses = Discounts & Special Offers for Calendar Users

At the bottom of each of the Calendar’s database entries, our sponsors will be listed along with their logo, a link to their website, and a special offer available to the user that is available exclusively through Gardens Across Iowa!™. Users can activate this offer in two ways:

Coming into the business and saying, “Thank you for helping to sponsor Gardens Across Iowa.” This allows our sponsors to hear firsthand gratitude from Iowans who appreciate that businesses are helping to make this possible, and provides our users with an opportunity to consider that these businesses do in fact care, and are doing something very important to help the community and the environment.

If a business provides sales through their website, a link may be provided that users can click which brings them to a page to make the purchase where the exclusive discount or offer is available.

Not only will can you use the Calendar/App to plan your gardens, you can also use it to shop deals and find discounts locally! This could be 10% of any select types of products, “buy one get one free”, or whatever offer our sponsors choose to make.

This will get more exciting once the App is developed (see Phase II below), however as we’re developing the Calendar, we will work to equitably place different businesses at the top of each entry so that all businesses are as visible as possible throughout the Calendar. If at some point in the future we find a way to make location service based advertising available within the Calendar, as described within Phase II, we will do that.

Invented by Sondra Wilson, the The Gardens Across Iowa!™ App will make the Right to Garden Act feasible.

Phase I: The Gardens Across Iowa!™ Google Calendar (prototype to create App – see Phase II)

In order to develop the App, first we’re building the Gardens Across Iowa!™ Google Calendar. It integrates directly into the your current Google Calendar to provide you with:

Precise dates to plant various garden crops based on Iowa’s frost date (~April 20). For example:
- On Jan. 26, users receive this notification, “Two weeks from now is the ideal time to begin germinating hot and bell peppers indoors. Here are the supplies you will need…” Soon you will be able to purchase any supplies you don’t have right through the Calendar (which in turn helps support this project). We are only seeking the best, most affordable products in order to save you time on research.
- On Feb. 9 the Calendar will alert you with this notification that it is time to germinate your peppers.
- On May 1 you will receive this notification, “Ten days from now it will be time to transplant your pepper sprouts into the garden. Now is the time to harden your plants and prepare the soil.” Again users click the notification to receive directions for doing these two tasks.
- On May 11 you receive this notification to transplant them into the garden, again with step-by-step directions.

The Calendar contains several entries for various crops now, however with your support Wild Willpower PAC will be able to hire our student-led team to:

Vastly improve the entries we currently have in place (including adding photos), and
Add numerous entries for a wide variety of garden crops and herbs.

There are also many plants that should not be grown next to each other which are also indicated within the Calendar.

Additionally, we are vacuuming the internet to collect the most efficient, aesthetically-pleasing techniques we can find. Here are just a few examples:

Double-planter technique for potatoes

Cucumber tipi

Rain gutter-planter hanging strawberries

A semi-shady overhang to guard the plants beneath from direct sun doesn’t get more gorgeous than this:

Advertising Opportunity for Businesses = Discounts & Special Offers for Calendar Users

At the bottom of each of the Calendar’s database entries, our sponsors will be listed along with their logo, a link to their website, and a special offer available to the user that is available exclusively through Gardens Across Iowa!™. Users can activate this offer in two ways:

Coming into the business and saying, “Thank you for helping to sponsor Gardens Across Iowa.” This allows our sponsors to hear firsthand gratitude from Iowans who appreciate that businesses are helping to make this possible, and provides our users with an opportunity to consider that these businesses do in fact care, and are doing something very important to help the community and the environment.
If a business provides sales through their website, a link may be provided that users can click which brings them to a page to make the purchase where the exclusive discount or offer is available.

Lease Agreement

This document represents a Lease Agreement between the Owner, who shall be the Lessor, and Wild Willpower PAC, the Lessee.

Appendices

Appendix A

Examples of in-store certificates.

Figure 1. Photo of in-store certificate for Perfect Plantista.

Figure 2. Photo of in-store certificate for Mucky Duck Pub.

Phase III: The Gardens Across Iowa! App™

Once the Calendar is complete, it will be used to develop the Gardens Across Iowa! App™. which will include location services. That means:

Advertising slots, located at the bottom of each calendar (database) entry, will show local sponsors at the top of the list. For example, if we have 5 sponsors in Ames, and a user in Ames is looking at an entry on tomatoes, Ames sponsors will be located at the top, followed by ads from other nearby sponsors who are slightly further away. If that person drives to Des Moines, nearby Des Moines area sponsors will located at the top, and so on. A list of all Iowa sponsors may be toggled by the user so they look through all sponsors and find deals.
Each local sponsors’ ads will be shuffled and randomized. For example, if we have 5 sponsors in in Ames, there will be a 1 in 5 chance that your business is located in the premium spot, followed by the other 4 sponsors.

The App will also allow users to toggle various plants within the calendar on and off, so if they don’t want to grow eggplants, they can toggle those notifications so they don’t show up in the calendar. Next year, if they decide to grow eggplants, they can toggle it back on to receive those notifications.

Phase V: The Gardens Across America! App™:

The Gardens Across Iowa! App will be used to develop the Gardens Across America! App™. This means that if a person were using the app in Colorado, for example, the dates for each plant will relocate within the calendar to dates which match Colorado’s frost date. This App will be useful to anyone in the U.S.

Phase VI: The Gardens Across Earth! App™:

The Gardens Across America! App will be used to develop the Gardens Across Earth! App™. It is our hope that what we are modeling here in the Heartland can help end food insecurity around the world. Heal the Heartland; heal the world!

Benefits of an En Masse Homesteading Movement:

improve local food supplies.
stop landfills from growing because “gardens aren’t wrapped in garbage”.
provide families the opportunity to live self-sufficient, healthy lives.
reduce dependence on welfare programs (and thus, to reduce taxes).

Why the term homestead? – The term “homestead” is actually a very important common law legal term which prevents a person who is working to live sustainably from having their home foreclosed on.

Thank you to Saboteur365 for this great commemorative graphic we’re using in accordance with Fair Use.

References:

Credits – all photos used in accordance with Fair Use laws:

“Records Shattered Again as More Iowans Seek Help with Food.” Food Bank of Iowa, 7 Dec. 2023, foodbankiowa.org/news/records-shattered-again-as-more-iowans-seek-help-with-food/.

$802M in crops destroyed: Eller, Donnelle. “Iowa Farmers Absorbed $243 Million in Losses from Last Year’s Devastating Drought, Derecho, New Tally Says.” The Des Moines Register, Des Moines Register, 27 July 2021, www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2021/07/27/iowa-2020-drought-derecho-new-tally-shows-size-farmers-losses-agriculture-corn-soybeans-noaa/7941506002/.

Double planter technique for potatoes: “A Piece of Rainbow” Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=815541177286166&set=a.423622486478039

Cucumber tipI: Transjardins, 26 Oct. 2022, transjardins.org/vertical-culture-in-a-teepee-a-playful-and-practical-tool-at-the-jardin-de-la-traversine-villiot-paris/.

Rain gutter-planter hanging strawberries: Laura. “Gardening Fail: Growing Strawberry Plants in Rain Gutters.” House of Joyful Noise Blog, Farmhouse Style, 24 Jan. 2017, houseofjoyfulnoise.com/gardening-fail-growing-strawberry-plants-in-rain-gutters/.

Oh my gourd this is a cool tunnel!!: R/Gardening on Reddit: Hanging Garden of Food, www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/2fxn9j/hanging_garden_of_food/. Accessed 10 Sept. 2024.

Rainbow carrots: “Rainbow Carrot Seeds.” ThisIsWhyImBroke.Com, www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/rainbow-carrot-seeds-3/. Accessed 10 Sept. 2024.

Russian Mammoth Sunflowers: Sunflower, Mammoth – Burpee, www.burpee.com/sunflower-mammoth-prod000397.html. Accessed 10 Sept. 2024.

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