Director Donna Green does not take any salary. Administration needs are currently covered by Magical Moon Foundation and by volunteer hrs.

Animal Care & Farm Person: $58,000 annually

Animal care, moving things around, constant coverage of property and visitors, full time music programs for kids, glue person for everything in physically preparing programs and events and handling clean up.

Farm Manager: $76,000 annually

Overseeing all maintenance, irrigation, green houses, animal buildings, technical support, running events, set up and breakdown, overseeing parking for events and programs. Grounds care, leading educational programs on permaculture and sustainability with school children, and working one on one with our children with special needs in the gardens.

One of our most pressing needs in going forward is the barn to be built out for programs and safety.

Inside Barn Therapy Area

Third floor, front of barn, Theater & Expressive Movement Therapy
Windows all need replacing and large one put in front center of barn for light. Walls insulated and covered in barn board. Flooring is strong but eventually it will need to be covered in a dance floor for plays and dancing. Wardrobe closets we can find for clothing, sorted by period and category. A small rough changing room built off the side for performers. Largest cost for this area will be windows, insulating walls and covering with barn board walls. Lighting will also be an expense. We have one truss but no lighting. Waiting for estimates on this area. Central stairs will have a chair lift. Yet to be priced out.

A Music Recording room for kids
We will be hiring certified therapists who have been specifically trained to work with children in this area.

This will cover the whole back half of third flour in barn. This is also the area where Kevin Shain will conduct his drumming sessions and behavior modification through sound and music interaction.

We need to move stairs to a central location for better egress and have a chair lift installed. This has been engineered and designed. Handicap Bathroom needs to be installed on third floor between theater area and sound area, (plumbing already exists from below).

Art Program Area in Barn, will be on the middle level, north facing corner of the barn opposite and same footprint as our healing room. The corner needs windows for natural light.

Stairway in corner to be moved to center of barn. Cabinets and tables for working need to be made or installed for classroom.

Full handicapped bathroom to be built in one corner with utility sinks for art projects included in design.

Electric and plumbing brought up to date. We will be using rough sawn pine on the walls and sanding down existing wide barn board plank flooring. We have long, barnyard planks for tables. Estimated cost for stairs, windows, bathroom and labor on just the art area $168,000.

All new windows in barn. Quotes from Costal glass $75,000.

Our windows are literally falling out of the barn daily. The broken glass and wind rushing through is scary. These major three areas of (Art, Music, Sound Therapy, Theater and Expressive Movement) in the barn will be upwards of $450,000.

Much will depend on how many tradesmen we can find to help build it out.

Gypsy Wagon for children’s processing challenges, a reading area and overnight housing for visitors.

Hay wagon paid for by Donna, Top section built by volunteer Artie Colucci and Donna to be like a tiny house for therapist to work in with children with brain misfiring disorders. Helping children to read and write and deal with fear. Donations of materials made by Gary Parker Shed company. Cost for whole project 0.

Solar panel installation on 100 ft. entire south facing roof of barn to cover entire barn and house electricity. Floor radiant and electronic hook ups already installed for healing room. Cost: $87,000.

We have the specs and quotes by two different companies. Both in same range.

Two whole new roofs were just donated by Tom Donovan of Superior Exteriors!

Educational, Survival Site for local middle school children at Magical Moon Farm.

An acre built out for teaching sustainable living for local school children educational programs and for the children of the Magical Moon families, we serve.

This area will be complete with an outdoor shower built from up-cycled bottles, whose water will be heated by a compost pile, pumped by a small wind turbine to a shower and an underground walapini, for growing year round food.

Water conservancy will be demonstrated using cisterns and zigzag irrigation on the side of the hill using rain water, without adding strain on the environment.

This area will have an outdoor amphitheater built into the hill showing the use of thermal mass of tromb wall construction to maximize the use of the sun’s passive energy.

Permaculture classes will be taught on the hill behind this. Projected cost of this site. Minus the 1970 Airstream will be in the neighborhood of $78,000.

Airstream, named, Moon Mettle, will be at the base of the site as a kitchen using grown produce from the site with a platform out side linking the two areas, for talks and tours.

Within the above space our 1970 airstream will be turned into a kitchen for cooking programs and the rear, working with children undergoing treatment for processing disorders and PTSD. $85,000. For full certified kitchen with added equipment for both food and programs.

Total for this outside, educational, middle school and Magical Moon children’s area at the farm, $163,000.

We have four very talented tradesmen now working on this area at the planning stage. Their labor will be donated. We need the funds for materials.

Some of the projects that are in the works and in a perfect world…. we could use:

A completed masonry, handicap, accessible walkway to go from end of our 100 foot wheelchair ramp in garden through greenhouse areas for programs and patio between pergola and green house for events and classes. This would make three acres of gardens completely accessible by the handicapped from the parking lot. Senior shuttle would be able to pick seniors up more easily from parking lot $15,500.

A perimeter fence around the garden to keep animals out and children in. Cost Pending quote from Armstrong Fence this week.

Stone walls rebuilt along Summer Street and perimeters of farm in a perfect world for containing our activities and safety.

A John Deere Tractor to help maintain the Magical Moon Farm property, year round. Our small John Deere Gator is on its final run from so much use. $43,000.

Mini split heat and air purification system installation for art program area of the barn, $8400.

Lighting for Healing Room and upgrade in audio tech connection, $2,500.

Family Retreat in farm house build out. $35,000 (Donna is covering this).