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Lol.
May be those fees are annual licensing fees. And who knows what else is tied to that (support contracts, etc)?
I once enabled my company to forgo a license renewal of $10k…after 3 months of heavy work. Not really a big savings. But it also then eliminated an annual $1 mil in servicing fees that they would’ve had to pay for 10 years, by contract (so saved $10 mil). That we didn’t know when I started.
Go to your local public library and get anything by The Teaching Company on gardening, such as (these are all dvd’s, you can rip them using Format Factory or MakeMKV:
Food Gardening for Everyone
The Science of Gardening
Pioneering Skills for Everyone (there’s a section on gardening in there)
The Science of Gardening
How to Grow Anything (it’s a series of dvd’s)