I’ve been on this crusade for over 3 years at the point of this article, and I have to say the results are exciting…especially now that we have switched our attention to an immediate and more tangible subject than debt: food! I’m a big cootie and food is one of my loves in this life.
When my brothers and I started this adventure, which quickly grew into a literal crusade to save the American Family from debt, we had a goal of influencing 365 families with a system of debt reduction. That’s a loft goal: one family every day of the year.
But we worked hard and there were many nights I didn’t see my own family, but I was supported in this worthy cause by those who love me. At the end of the first calendar year, we (myself, Lee Bradshaw, Brad Lavery and Ondi Allred) sat back and did a tally of the results.
We had nearly tripled our original goal.
Almost 900 families had been affected by our message and system in a positive way! The average client was saving $125K-150K in future mortgage interest and at least 10 years from their mortgages…along with eliminating ALL THEIR OTHER DEBT!! We also started converting professionals in many fields who now see a tool and vehicle to help their own clients do more than dig a bigger hole into debt. People from the mortgage fields, real estate fields, insurance and even construction fields started learning about what we do and how we help people.
Over time, we converted bankers, credit unions and other lending institutions to our way of thinking and that was only the beginning…or so we thought.
The economy changed to where people had more of a need to keep their homes than paying them off! Yet the waves continued to hit, week after week, and those who were not prepared for this type of financial landscape…those who had listened to the so-called “professionals” in the financial field, lost their investments and many lost their homes. This, coupled with the instability of the job market started a chain reaction that has affected every family without exception in one degree or another.
So where are we now? We are looking to help solve the most basic fundamental need a person can have: food. Most particularly feeding children and struggling families.
Lee Bradshaw has been dreaming of this for over a decade, and after we had our own families hit by wave after wave of financial storms, we just didn’t feel a desire to be in the upper ends of the financial world when so many were suffering all around. The system Lee had utilized on a small scale was perfectly capable of supplying food to as many people as required. All we needed was the man power and tools, along with your organic donations.
The system is The Backyard Harvest Project. A way to utilize the food we are wasting each and every year from our own back yards, by allowing our team to come in, care for your plants, harvest the food and take the larger portion to those in need.
In 2009, within minimal help, the Bradshaw family grew, harvested, processed and distributed 50,000lbs of food to those in need! That was without funding, without a proper set up and without support. Today Lee is putting all his efforts into The Backyard Harvest Project, because he’d like to create 500,000lbs of food for those in need this year!
Can he do it? Absolutely, so long as he has the donations and the help from people like you in the community.
Not only that—but this project is not limited to Utah! HECK NO!! If you want to start a branch and become the Hero in your own community, Lee can show you how! Just get on over to The Backyard Harvest Project and contact Lee via email. He responds to everything personally, so you’ll get a hold of him sure enough.
We have the answers to so many of our economic problems, if we will just take the time to look, and then work together to achieve them.
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