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<br />Page 6 of 22 <br /> <br />4. Living Wage: Does this <br />organization pay employees a <br />minimum living wage <br />($17.65/hr or $16.15/hr with <br />employer provided health <br />insurance)? <br />☒ Yes <br />☐ No <br />Is this organization <br />an Orange County <br />Living Wage <br />Certified Employer? <br />(Yes / No) <br /> <br />If no, please briefly <br />explain. <br />☐ Yes <br />☒ No <br />just hired their first <br />full-time employee <br />05/2024 <br />5. Schedule of Positions: <br />a. Number of Full-Time Paid <br />Positions: 1 <br />b. Number of Part-Time Paid <br />Positions: 0 <br />c. Number of Volunteers: 100 <br /> <br />Project Information <br />*Please submit for each project if applying for funding for more than one project. <br /> <br />1. Project Name: Cob Outdoor Classroom and Food Forest <br />2. Please briefly describe the <br />proposed project. (100-300 <br />words) <br />Jubilee Healing Farm will utilize volunteers from the community to help <br />construct a Cob Outdoor Classroom and adjacent Food Forest. This <br />space will be created from natural materials (sand, water, straw) and <br />will provide sustainable shelter for future ecology and climate <br />community programs. Cob building or the process of cobbing is known <br />to be over 4,000 years old and has been used around the world. <br />Globally, building projects are responsible for 28% of carbon emissions. <br />Cob uses local sand, straw and clay to create a sustainable long-term <br />structure. In addition, Jubilee plans to use on-site cedar trees for the <br />structural support for the roof, and to create a living roof on the <br />structure. The project will address climate change in multiple ways. <br />First, conventional building materials include tremendous amounts of <br />embodied carbon due to the tremendous energy required to process <br />and transport them. In contrast, cob much lower embodied carbon, <br />close to zero or even negative if considering carbon sequestration by <br />straw. Secondly, teaching the community how to build with cob will <br />have a multiplicative effect as others choose to create sustainable <br />structures. Third, our cob building will have a living roof that will <br />capture carbon and be surrounded by a food forest that will capture <br />carbon through the planting of fruit trees, shrubs, herbs and vines. The <br />food forest will provide ample food that will be shared with our <br />community through PORCH Hillsborough. Fourth, the addition of a <br />pond will capture rainwater. Ponds can store carbon at a rate that's <br />20–50 times faster than other methods, and they can keep it locked <br />away for hundreds of years. Aquatic plants in ponds, like algae, <br />Docusign Envelope ID: 61C3903E-05FE-49FE-A6AF-E50B7D61917E