Andrés Bernal

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Watch the movie that documents the 2022 Permaculture Technology Jamboree (PTJ), where the world's most innovative designers, builders, tinkerers, bodgers, fixers, goofballs, and water-witchers are brought together to explore and experiment with all kinds of things related to homesteading and permaculture.  The results are consistently amazing!

Now you can see the best of every project, including extensive interviews with the instructors in one feature length movie.  




New and old natural building methods have been unlocked and refined, like mycelium insulation, and roundwood and earthen building techniques.  New time- and energy-saving inventions have been born – solar and passive solar designs to capture, store, and move heat, water, and even electricity. Wood heat technology has grown into maturity, finding new expressions and practical applications such as the Rocket Kiln, Forge, and Crucible, achieving heat-work that was previously regarded as "impossible."  

The best part? You can build this stuff at home, mostly for cheap or free!



Some of the things covered in this movie:
  • the hyper-efficient, wood-fueled, and clean-burning rocket kiln that changed the ceramics world
  • mycelium insulation - all-natural, biodegradable and non-toxic insulation panels that you can grow at home with free materials - and harvest culinary and medicinal mushrooms in the process
  • an all-wood Proenneke hinge (a giant wooden hinge made from a root-ball)
  • spinning wheel for wool made from bicycle parts
  • log picnic table
  • hugelkultur - a self-fertilizing, self-watering raised garden bed
  • simple solar pump
  • spring terrace - a land feature that can produce hundreds of gallons of water per day from dry land
  • many styles of food preservation
  • a shippable rocket heater core - pre-fabricating the hardest part of a rocket mass heater, so you can easily make your own luxurious, efficient home-heating device
  • log beehive
  • a beautiful shaving horse for traditional woodworking
  • using animals to seal a pond
  • sheep shearing and wool processing
  • robust apothecary - gathering, processing, and storing plants for natural remedies
  • rocket hot tub - a super-efficient, wood-fueled hot tub
  • rocket forge - a super-efficient, wood-fueled forge for metalwork
  • harvest and process clay for pottery and glaze
  • plant a living fence
  • a door for a weirdly-shaped door-frame, with a snappy magnetic closure mechanism


  • Buy the accompanying 3D plans here.

    Buy the movie and 3D plans together here (special deal)

    5 days ago
    Get the feature length Low Tech Lab Movie - a documentary about the 2022 Permaculture Technology Jamboree at Wheaton Labs - exploring innovative homesteading and permaculture projects, PLUS a bundle of 12 sets of 3D plans to make your own project creations from the event, the 65 low tech things - movie tour, Alan Booker's Spring Terrace Webinar and Beau Davidson´s Mycoinsulation Webinar: Grow-Your-Own Insulation While Farming Valuable Mushroom Crops.

    This is an incredible bumper deal featuring a shed load of information to help you become more self-sufficient and resilient in your own backyard!






    You can find out more here about the details of each item:

    Low Tech Laboratory Movie

    Low Tech Laboratory 3D Plans Bundle

    65 Low Tech things - tour movie

    Spring Terrace Recorded Webinar

    Mycoinsulation Recorded Webinar

    5 days ago
    Buy a bundle of plans to DIY the projects from the 2022 PTJ (Permaculture Technology Jamboree) held at Wheaton Labs. This low tech event brings together a bunch of creatives and professionals annually to experiment and innovate in the name of permaculture!  The 2022 event was made into a movie that you can buy here to see the plans brought to life, learn more about each project and the instructors that taught at the PTJ.


    As a result of the 2022 event, plans were made so that you can make your own creations. Buy them all here in one handy bundle!



    The bundle consists of:

  • rocket engine plans
  • rocket hot tub plans
  • log picnic table plans v1.0
  • log picnic table plans v2.0
  • shaving horse plans
  • spinning wheel made from bicycle parts plans
  • mycelium insulated door plans
  • horizontal log beehive plans
  • vertical log beehive plans
  • rocket kiln plans
  • hugelkultur plans
  • spring terrace / humus well plans


  • Buy the accompanying movie here.

    Buy the movie and 3D plans combo here (special deal).

    5 days ago



    In this guide you’ll find a syllabus with summaries for each part of the course with special designs to take notes for each theme, visuals, graphics, a separate notepad file to print and much more!

    - .pdf
    - 444 pages
    - use to follow along the Garden Master Course taught by Helen Atthowe




    5 days ago


    Helen Atthowe's Garden Master Course




    35 hours of quality instruction on better-than-organic garden practices.  

    Most Master Gardener courses offer extensive botanical and cultivation information, which is great!   But they also teach that you must use all the bottles and sprayers containing nasty stuff and covered with warning labels, which is not so great - for the gardener or the garden.  

    There has never been a course taught through an ecological lens . . .

                        . . . Until now.

    In the Garden Master Course, we have taken the very best of the Advanced Master Gardener curriculum and improved upon it.  We have employed biological and ecosystemic methods to eliminate the need for conventional (or even certified organic) pesticides and herbicides.  Gardening for the future!

    After years of planning, Helen Atthowe came to Wheaton Labs to teach what I now call "The Certified Garden Master Course."  The class sells out every year.  Demand keeps growing.  So last year we set up some high-quality cameras to see if we could gather the footage to make this class available to more people.



    About your instructor:

    Helen Atthowe has taught Master Gardener courses for 17 years. Having  studied under Fukuoka Helen has spent the last 35 years learning how to pay close attention to the land.  She applies Fukuoka's farming principles to her commercial organic farms, while also adding and developing her own ecological farming practices. She has hands on experience managing a 2,000-acre organic commodity farm as well as growing permaculture food forests.

    Helen has a bachelor's degree in agro-ecology, a master's degree in horticulture, and is working on a doctorate in entomology on how reduced-tillage affects beneficial organism populations and crop biological control. Paul and Helen have recorded numerous podcasts together, and they are among Paul's most popular podcasts.



    What the Garden Master Course covers:

    Unit 1: Getting Started: How everything is connected

    Unit 2: The Roots of a Healthy Plant Community: Understanding soil structure and ecology

    Unit 3: Strengthening Your Garden: Managing beneficial insects, pests, and disease

    Unit 4: Weeds vs. Garden: Working with plant competition in the farm/garden system

    Unit 5: Growing a Diet: Planting, pruning and rotating for long-term success






    Get Helen Atthowe's 2022 Garden Master Course in HD Streaming, tiny download , or hd download

    5 days ago