rocket mass heater jamboree October 5-9 2026

UPDATE: a few details have been hammered out and filled in below

October 5-9 2026 (and some people will stick around the following week)

We will do a ticket blitz starting on Friday, March 27th at 2pm mountain time.  If we can sell 18 tickets within 48 hours we will do the event!

When the blitz starts, I will post a link here so people can buy tickets.  Tickets will be $720 during the blitz.  And if we do have the event, the regular ticket price will be $1100.


We will start with three rocket mass heater instructors and one "homestead track" instructor.  If the number of attendees gets big, we will do more.  

The good news is that we now grow a LOT of food.  So we could, in parallel, have a lot of food preservation stuff.  Especially stuff using the solar food dehydrator with rocket assist.  

A few possible projects:

  - rmh in the yoga yurt
  - more with the hot tub
           o probably add in a hypocaust
  - upgrade rmh in fph
  - an indoor rocket oven in the outdoor kitchen
  - upgrade cob hat in dog star
  - add a portable cob hat in fph
  - finish bun warmer
  - something for kai's cob cottage
  - cob hat at cooper


This is a good time to hear from people that might wanna come. Projects, instructors, etc.  

some of the projects of the past in a two minute video

I updated the first post with a bunch of details that have been hammered out.

We need feedback.

Mostly, we need to hear that some of you are keen to buy a ticket.    And from those people, some feedback on projects and the like.    Maybe some other deets.

I will put it on my calendar. Most likely I can fly into glacier MT area and borrow a ride from a buddy of mine. Paul, please let me know what RMH supplies you may need for this learning adventure.

Hi Paul!
Thanks everyone for working on this :)
I will buy a ticket and show up!

My preference of projects in my preferred order:  

paul wheaton wrote:
  - an indoor rocket oven in the outdoor kitchen
  - rmh in the yoga yurt
  - finish bun warmer
  - something for kai's cob cottage
  - upgrade cob hat in dog star
           o hey how's the fence? could it hold a dog?
  - more with the hot tub
  - add a portable cob hat in fph
  - cob hat at cooper
  - upgrade rmh in fph

paul wheaton wrote:(and some people will stick around the following week)

This is probably a "following week" idea but...
I would joyfully part with an additional $500 if I could have some experts guide me through building my own Rocket Engine (suitable for BB attainment)
and/or another season extender and/or jtube rmh

Regardless, looking forward to this!

I have been wanting to attend a rocket mass heater event and learn how to build my own without being a Giligan.

paul wheaton wrote:
  - rmh in the yoga yurt
  - more with the hot tub
           o probably add in a hypocaust
  - upgrade rmh in fph
  - an indoor rocket oven in the outdoor kitchen
  - finish bun warmer
  - something for kai's cob cottage

These are the projects I’d be interested in. As October is a long way off and I’m not sure how work will look then, are these tickets transferrable here on Permies? It’d be great if I could sell my ticket for $500 and eat an ~$200 loss if need be.

J. Syme wrote:I will put it on my calendar. Most likely I can fly into glacier MT area and borrow a ride from a buddy of mine. Paul, please let me know what RMH supplies you may need for this learning adventure.

Thanks for the offer!  First, let's sell 18 tickets so we can have the bare minimum of an event!

Clay McGowen wrote:Hi Paul!
Thanks everyone for working on this :)
I will buy a ticket and show up!

My preference of projects in my preferred order:  

paul wheaton wrote:
  - an indoor rocket oven in the outdoor kitchen
  - rmh in the yoga yurt
  - finish bun warmer
  - something for kai's cob cottage
  - upgrade cob hat in dog star
           o hey how's the fence? could it hold a dog?
  - more with the hot tub
  - add a portable cob hat in fph
  - cob hat at cooper
  - upgrade rmh in fph

paul wheaton wrote:(and some people will stick around the following week)

This is probably a "following week" idea but...
I would joyfully part with an additional $500 if I could have some experts guide me through building my own Rocket Engine (suitable for BB attainment)
and/or another season extender and/or jtube rmh

Regardless, looking forward to this!

That sounds like a cool idea.  Uncle Mud is already saying that he plans to stick around for the second week.

Chad Stephenson wrote:I have been wanting to attend a rocket mass heater event and learn how to build my own without being a Giligan.

And you can fire up a rocket mass heater or two.

Jeff Bigelow wrote:

paul wheaton wrote:
  - rmh in the yoga yurt
  - more with the hot tub
           o probably add in a hypocaust
  - upgrade rmh in fph
  - an indoor rocket oven in the outdoor kitchen
  - finish bun warmer
  - something for kai's cob cottage

These are the projects I’d be interested in. As October is a long way off and I’m not sure how work will look then, are these tickets transferrable here on Permies? It’d be great if I could sell my ticket for $500 and eat an ~$200 loss if need be.

Seems okay to me.

I'll be happy to coach anyone in how to light, feed, clean, and maintain any of our on-site RMHs, should Paul not be available.

@Clay: we have some repairs to do up there at the moment, but it will definitely be ready by then.

So ...   maybe four tickets?

Clay McGowen wrote:
I would joyfully part with an additional $500 if I could have some experts guide me through building my own Rocket Engine (suitable for BB attainment)
and/or another season extender and/or jtube rmh

Regardless, looking forward to this!

Hey Clay! As you probably know, I've built one of each of these rockets and can guide you through your build. Granted, it's up to Paul to approve the necessity of another installation. I'll add that Harry brought our sheet metal brake up to WL which will make building an engine even easier.

Alexandra Malecki wrote:[I've built one of each of these rockets and can guide you through your build.

I’ve been very impressed with all your work and will gladly take you up on this!!

Fingers crossed we can get enough tickets sold.
I’m reaching out to some folks today!