Low Tech Movies
3 Movies - HD Streaming

Build your homestead with:
Low Tech Laboratory movie 1 (1 hour and 52 mins.)Low Tech Laboratory movie 2 (1 hour and 38 mins.)Free Heat Movie (2 hours and 18 mins.)
Three low tech movies for homesteaders, permaculture builders, and people who want to make useful things from natural, cheap, local, and salvaged materials.
Watch the best of the Permaculture Technology Jamboree, the Low Tech Laboratory sequel, and the Free Heat movie in one bundle. These movies showcase rocket mass heaters, rocket cooktops, rocket kilns, log furniture, roundwood construction, mycelium insulation, hugelkultur, spring terraces, log beehives, shaving horses, wool processing, natural building experiments, and many more practical low tech projects from Wheaton Labs.
Low Tech Laboratory Movie 1

Watch the movie that documents the 2022 Permaculture Technology Jamboree, where innovative designers, builders, tinkerers, bodgers, fixers, goofballs, and water-witchers came together to explore homesteading, permaculture, natural building, wood heat, food preservation, land design, and practical low tech systems.
Some of the things covered in this movie:
rocket kiln, rocket forge, and rocket hot tubmycelium insulation and a mycelium insulated dooran all-wood Proenneke hingespinning wheel made from bicycle partslog picnic table and shaving horsehugelkultur and spring terracelog beehivessimple solar pumpfood preservation, apothecary, sheep shearing, wool processing, clay harvesting, pond sealing, and more
Low Tech Laboratory Movie 2

The sequel to the Low Tech Laboratory movie documents the 2023 Permaculture Technology Jamboree, with new builds, new experiments, and new practical artifacts from the Wheaton Labs community. This movie captures design, construction, testing, and instructor insight for a wide range of permaculture and homesteading projects.
Some of the things covered in this movie:
rocket engine, rocket forge, rocket hot tub, and rocket kiln experimentsmoon gate made from stonelog picnic table 3.0 and giant log stairsBOB, myco-insulated house, myco-insulated roof, root cellar, grape arbor, sawmilling, yurt, earthen floors, natural textiles, wool processing, sauna, ash cement, and more
Free Heat Movie

Some call it "carbon neutral," others "carbon negative." Heat your home with yard waste and cardboard while reducing global problems. We call it
free heat.
Rocket Mass Heaters are possibly one of the most powerful low tech solutions for people who want lower heating bills, greater comfort, and a cleaner way to heat a home. This movie gives viewers a front row seat to several rocket mass heater builds and other rockety contraptions.
Some of the things covered in this movie:
8 inch pebble style j-tube rocket mass heater6 inch cob style j-tube rocket mass heater in a tiny houseLorena style rocket cooktoprocket sauna heatersolar food dehydrator with rocket assistLiberator and Gamera commercial rocket heater installationsRMH design, safety, function, maintenance, 5-minute riser, juice box stratification, and rocket kiln/forge experiments
Get all three low tech movies together!