Clayton's Bootcamp Experience

BRK Day 13

Glad you're enjoying Greg!

It rained again yesterday so I spent most of the day working on the table (now officially known as "the dock", you'll see why) but I did take advantage of a break in the rain to do some chop and drop.
I built a miniature 'fog harp' in the evening, the multi color thread is because the only thread I had on hand was a sewing kit (thanks mom, it did come in handy for something).

BRK Day 14

Yesterday was pretty relaxed. I built an (embarrassingly bad) firewood rack. We got a new boot named Steve.

Here's a video from a few days ago of Josiah cobbing the door of the cyclone heater and talking about it

BRK Day 15

Yesterday Orin, Steve (a new boot) and I spent the morning working on Orin's plot. After lunch we gave Steve a quick tour of the lab.
I spent most of the afternoon relaxing and getting some reading in

Tips and Tricks:

All mustards are edible! And all can be identified by having four petals, four sepals, and six stamens (four tall two short)

    disclaimer: don't go around eating wild plants because I said so. It is your responsibility to fully identify and determine the safety of any wild edible before consumption

BRK Day 16

Yesterday we spent most of the day working on junk pole fence and hugels at the Abby. I had what is likely my oddest task to date, which was to drive the housekeeper back to Missoula after her boyfriend/ride got arrested.

BRK Day 17

Yesterday morning we mulched the hugels (they actually look like a garden now!). After that, some boots went off to collect hugel wood from outside the to-be fence line while a few others carved paths into the completed hugels.
We spent the whole afternoon doing chop and drop

BRK Day 18

It rained yesterday so we spent the morning working on the dock. It still needs the end and lots of finishing work, but most of the decking is installed!
The rain slowed down in the afternoon so I did chop and drop again.

Tips and Tricks:

Knapweed kinda sorta looks like mustard. It does NOT taste like mustard (yuck)

BRK Day 19

Yesterday I did chop and drop at base camp all morning. The hugels are looking well chopped!
In the afternoon we planted the three sisters on the new hugels at the Abby (woot!) and then came back and did chop and drop on the lower berm over the parking lot.

BRK Day 20

Yesterday we spent the morning doing junk pole fence at the Abby, then came back and continued to seed/transplant onto the hugels at base camp.

Last night was also the first unofficially official boot permaculture documentary night, featuring Desert or Paradise.

Tips and Tricks:

You can plant tomatoes right up to their first leaves, and they'll grow roots off what was the stem!