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Sepper theme weeks: Harvest week (September 15-21, 2024)

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Harvest Week September 15th - September 21st

- Harvesting!
- Canning (maybe using the lorena)
- Dehydrating (using our giant solar food dehydrators)
- Freezing
- Maybe some fermenting!

Harvest Prep Week is September 8th - September 14th

- dabble in most of the things happening the following week
- maybe a bit of last minute gardening

Vacation Rentals and Accommodations at Wheaton Labs

The plan:

Rent a cabin or a bunk through the Sepper program, arrival day is Sunday. Wheaton Labs is located near Missoula, Montana.

(When cabins or bunks are rented we will gray out the listing)

Cabins:

Allerton Abbey

Sep 15th - Sep 20th is $250 (click here to pay $250)
Sep 8th - Sep 20th is ~~$500~~ $400
(click here to pay $400)

The Red Cabin (rented!)

Sep 15th - Sep 20th is $250
Sep 8th - Sep 20th is ~~$500~~ $400

The Love Shack

Sep 15th - Sep 20th is $250 (click here to pay $250)
Sep 8th - Sep 20th is ~~$500~~ $350 (click here to pay $350)

The AmayZheng Dog Star (now with a rocket mass heater!)

Sep 15th - Sep 20th is $250 (click here to pay $250)
Sep 8th - Sep 20th is ~~$500~~ $400 (click here to pay $400)

The Tipi (with a rocket mass heater)

Sep 15th - Sep 20th is $250 (click here to pay $250)
Sep 8th - Sep 20th is ~~$500~~ $400 (click here to pay $400)

Bartell's Bunk House (now with a rocket mass heater!)

Sep 15th - Sep 20th is $250 (click here to pay $250)
Sep 8th - Sep 20th 13 nights ~~$500~~ $400 (click here to pay $400)

Bunks:

Cooper Cabin

Top Bunk (1 person): Sep 15th - Sep 20th is $250 (click here to pay $250)
Top Bunk (1 person): Sep 8th - Sep 20th is ~~$500~~ $350 (click here to pay $350)

Bottom Bunk (1-2 people): Sep 15th - Sep 20th is $250 (click here to pay $250)
Bottom Bunk (1-2 people): Sep 8th - Sep 20th ~~$500~~ $350 (click here to pay $350)

Fisher Price House

Top Bunk (1 person): Sep 15th - Sep 20th 6 nights $250 (click here to pay $250)
Top Bunk (1 person): Sep 8th - Sep 20th 13 nights ~~$500~~ $350 (click here to pay $350)

Bottom Bunk (1-2 people): Sep 15th - Sep 20th 6 nights $250 (click here to pay $250)
Bottom Bunk (1-2 people): Sep 8th - Sep 20th 13 nights ~~$500~~ $350 (click here to pay $350)

Solarium

Squirrel Top Bunk (narrow twin bed): Sep 15th - Sep 20th 6 nights $225 (click here to pay $225)
Squirrel Top Bunk (narrow twin bed): Sep 8th - Sep 20th 13 nights ~~$450~~ $350 (click here to pay $325)

Squirrel Bottom Bunk (narrow twin bed): Sep 15th - Sep 20th 6 nights $250 (click here to pay $250)
Squirrel Bottom Bunk (narrow twin bed): Sep 8th - Sep 20th 13 nights ~~$500~~ $350 (click here to pay $350)

Bear or Moose Top Bunk (twin bed): Sep 15th - Sep 20th 6 nights $250 (click here to pay $250)
Bear or Moose Top Bunk (twin bed): Sep 8th - Sep 20th 13 nights ~~$500~~ $350 (click here to pay $350)

Bear or Moose Bottom Bunk (twin bed): Sep 15th - Sep 20th 6 nights $250 (click here to pay $250)
Bear or Moose Bottom Bunk (twin bed): Sep 8th - Sep 20th 13 nights ~~$500~~ $350 (click here to pay $350)

Monday through Friday the Permaculture Bootcamp will focus on the Sepper theme of the week! Our Bootcamp High Commander Stephen will be guiding you as you gather, prepare and preserve this summer's bountiful harvest.

More information about our Sepper program here

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Derek Thille

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posted 4 months ago

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D'oh! Missed it by that much...we arrive the 22nd. Oh well, I'm sure there will continue to be some harvesting and processing to get involved with.

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Derek Thille wrote:D'oh! Missed it by that much...we arrive the 22nd. Oh well, I'm sure there will continue to be some harvesting and processing to get involved with.

Hello Derek!

I am so glad you are coming out to Wheaton Labs!

What are you interested in harvesting? What kinds of preservation and processing are you wanting to do?

On September 29th we start Rocket Prep Week.
I am excited for that one. We will be learning all about rocket mass heaters and Cob just in time for winter!
https://permies.com/wiki/262607/Sepper-theme-weeks-Rocket-week#2582799

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Samantha Lewis wrote:

Derek Thille wrote:D'oh! Missed it by that much...we arrive the 22nd. Oh well, I'm sure there will continue to be some harvesting and processing to get involved with.

Hello Derek!

I am so glad you are coming out to Wheaton Labs!

What are you interested in harvesting? What kinds of preservation and processing are you wanting to do?

On September 29th we start Rocket Prep Week.
I am excited for that one. We will be learning all about rocket mass heaters and Cob just in time for winter!
https://permies.com/wiki/262607/Sepper-theme-weeks-Rocket-week#2582799

I'm not sure whether you're trying to make me laugh or cry...we leave the 28th...sigh.

I started fermenting just a couple years ago, so I'm still relatively new to that and am certainly looking to improve and learn new ideas there. I really do want to get a closer look at the solar dehydrators in action. I'll have to remember to ask She Who Must Be Obeyed if there's anything that tickles her fancy. We do have young apple trees that aren't regularly producing yet so if there's apple goodness going on, that would be good to learn about. We do hope / plan to earn some meals by working with the boots.

Working toward a permaculture-strong retirement near sunny Sperling.

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I am so excited for the harvest event. I have booked the red cabin. Muahaha! See you there!

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You can see all the harvest week shenanigans in Stephens' Boot Thread.

"There was a rogue butternut squash up there on one of the hugels, onions, green beans, radishes, and an assortment of greens."

Lots of rhubarb, some turned into jam, some dried in the solar food dehydrator

For more stories, head over to Stephen's thread

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There was plenty to harvest after the week was over. The sunchokes in the GAMCOD hugel were impressive. We sampled some of that rhubarb candy and made more (after She Who Must Be Obeyed turned some into a crisp along with some apples)...which also led to drying apples. Hopefully Stephen will let us know how her experiment turned out - there were some more tart apples, so they also got the simple syrup treatment, then topped with cinnamon before being put in the rocket assist solar dehydrator. We set up some sunchokes for fermentation and dried some as well.

I really need to get my photos handled / edited so I can post about our experience last week.

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