2020 SKIP: Skills to Inherit Property (PEP1) event --July 12-25th, Wheaton Labs

SKIP: Skills to Inherit Property
July 12th-25th, 2020
Near Missoula, Montana



Early Bird Prices end March 15th!!!

About SKIP:

SKIP is a curriculum of experiences you can complete to prove you can do permaculture.  While a PDC  teaches you how to do permaculture design and analysis, SKIP is hands-on.  You are making things.

When you complete several things, you earn a badge.  Sixteen badges will make you PEP1 certified.  After several years of progress, you can be PEP3 or PEP4 certified.  At that point you are basically self-sufficient and can prove it.  Many older homesteaders don't want their property to turn into a strip mall or subdivision.  This program will connect qualified candidates with those landowners so you can skip the rat race and skip the debt.

Feel of the Event:

In this program, you will gain and demonstrate new skills.  It isn't about training, classroom time or lengthy discussion.  It's about pounding out actual projects.  This event will be heavily focused on giving attendees the ability to complete badges.  It's our third event like this.

There will be a guide/facilitator for all the planned work.  The attendees will be focused on a given task for each time slot.  If they complete it quickly, there is time to complete additional badges..  If they want to take their time, that is fine, but they may not complete as many badges during the event.



Daily Schedule

Day 1-3: Woodland Care: Felling trees, peeling and bucking, splitting wood, making a junkpole fence, cleaving shakes
 
Day 4-5: Gardening:   Making a hugelkultur garden, planting, chop and dropping, mulching


OR: (see below)


Day 4-5: Textiles: Sewing, knitting, darning, basket making and twine making
 
Day 6: Animal Care: Bird house, bee house, insect hotel, toad and snake habitat

Day 7: Day Off!

Day 8:  Food Prep and Preservation: water bath canning, vinegar brining, salt brining
 
Day 9:  Foraging:  Harvest berries, mushrooms, greens; dry some for storage, make seed balls
 
Day 10:  Natural Medicine:  Dehydrate herbs, make a salve, poultice, vinegar infusion, oil infusion and water infusion
 
Day 11:  Community:  Brand a location, create public art, create a map
 
Day 12-13:  Earthworks: Make a dry stack retaining wall, make a trail, maintain a trail, use an excavator, improve a berm, use the tractor loader
 
Day 14:  Homesteading:  Trailer backing, make a rock jack


Instructors

Mike Haasl --Instructor
Mike Haasl is a mechanical engineer, woodworker, blacksmith, and permaculture homesteader in northern Wisconsin.  He constructed a sweet greenhouse, builds with pallets and upcycled material, and experiments with compost heat.  He is developing a demonstration site for permaculture homesteading, and collaborating to create the SKIP program.

Paul Wheaton -- Host/Instructor
Paul Wheaton, The Duke of Permaculture, is an author, producer, and certified advanced master gardener. He has created hundreds of youtube videos, hundreds of podcasts, multiple DVDs, and written dozens of articles and a book. As the lead mad scientist at Wheaton Labs, he's conducted experiments resulting in rocket stoves and ovens, massive earthworks, solar dehydrators and much more.

Jennifer Richardson --Instructor
Jennifer Richardson is a former cattle rancher and current resident of Wheaton Labs. She is participating in the boot camp and living in Allerton Abbey, the first wofati, in order to test the thermal inertia of the structure.

Fred Tyler -- Instructor
Fred has lead the Bootcamp at Wheaton Labs for three years now. He's directed and taught skills ranging from organic gardening to woodworking to natural building.

Josiah Kobernik -- Instructor
Josiah cobbled together a diverse background in commercial agriculture, horticulture, market gardening, raising livestock, homesteading, and other general build/fix skills before landing at Wheaton Labs in 2019. Since moving to the labs, he has taken to working with roundwood timber framing, earthen plasters, videography, rocket contraptions, and any other inventions he can get his hands on



Tickets

Work Trades for Permaculture Technology Jamboree, PDC, and SKIP
Work a 7 weeks in Bootcamp for a ticket to SKIP!

Super Early Bird Tickets can be purchased HERE!

Early Bird Prices end March 15th!!!