Beau M. Davidson

We all love to see all the wonderful, inspiring, and ground-breaking work being done to advance Permaculture at Wheaton Labs.  Most of that work is done by the boots in the Permaculture Bootcamp.  

The thing is, if we do these awesome things and nobody ever hears about it, who cares?  On the other hand, if we do these awesome things, post a few pictures, and maybe tell a brief tale about the undertaking, people see it, love it, and are inspired to do similar things in their neck of the woods.  And, over time, the world does indeed change for the better.

To incentivize this participation in the bootcamp and posting of activities, we're rolling out the BEL program, or the Bootcamp Experience Log.  It works like this:

1) Join the Bootcamp.
2) Start a thread here at permies to share what you're doing with the world.  Posts must contain at least three pictures illustrating different activities, or a video of equal or greater illustrative value.
3) After 100 posts, you get to Ring the BEL, and you get 10% of the money in the BEL.  
4) More people invest in the BEL due to your wonderful experience log, the BEL grows, rinse and repeat unto glory.

People put up good money to reward boots for sharing, so at this time, the reward is pretty significant.  I can't say how much, but I know the last boot to ring the bell got well into 4 digits for his generous sharing of his experience.  I'm hoping that, in time, the pile of money gets bigger and bigger, while more and more boots are coming and cashing in.

Here are the folks who have put up coin sing the dawn of the BEL:

AnonA  $10k
AnonM  $2000
AnonG   $1500
AnonD   $1000
Vention  $1000
Anon963  $800
Akkaydrah  $100
Dave     $100
Clay      $100
Barbara   $50

Awesome Bootcamp Experience Logs:
- SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience
- Jen Tulli's Bootcamp Experience
- Dez's Bootcamp Experience
- Josiah's Bootcamp Log
- Jen's Boot Camp and Allerton Abbey Experience





*This is a wee update of what used to be called the BRK.

Austin, I *think* you should have gotten an email at this point about the physical books from our shipper.  Do you see that?

I have a button here that gives you access to the ebook while you wait, as a consolation for the delay and a thank you for your patience.  Would you be interested in that?  Let me know if so and I'll press it for you.  

Austin Walsh wrote:.

I started a process that I think may solve your problem.  Give it a couple hours, and let me know if you haven't gotten some sort of notification about it.

Austin Walsh wrote:

r ransom wrote:

Austin Walsh wrote:Hi!

I purchased 12 books in March 2026 and have not received them. How do I go about troubleshooting this?

Also, do you have the date the payment was made?  

That will help with troubleshooting

I purchased on 3/24/26 for $90.  I have nothing in my email, but it is on my bank statement.

I do not see a purchase for 12 physical books on or near that date.  But maybe something is . . . different than it usually is.  Happy to look further.

Did you pay via paypal?  

If so, could you try logging in to permies with the email address associated with your paypal account?

Thekla, I am travelling currently, which limits my ability to test and troubleshoot.  Let me know if you are able to try it from another device, browser, and internet connection.  Ping me again and I'll look further next week.

Weird, I can see it just fine.

I'll try again later from my laptop and see if anything looks weird there.  In the meantime, Thekla, I can't see most of the screen in your screenshot.  Are you on a mobile device?  I wonder what it would look like if you tried to access it from a computer?

Stephen B. Thomas wrote:Related question: Is there a way to choose to add-on the thread features at a later date, or are these available only when you first post the thread?

Like maybe an option in the normal "thread boost" area to see basic or advanced options - where the basic options show you the new quickie stuff?

Yeah, I like that a lot.  

It would be cool to have some automated hand-holding.  Maybe that could be kind of baked into the "your thread boost stuff is about to expire!" email, optimizing for directing the test-driver to their results, highlighting impressions, clicks, cost-per click in very clear visuals.

I guess the big question is, who is this feature for?

If it's for only people running businesses or selling property, then it's built right.  But the fact that it's shown to every person who posts about anything (on these forums) means the audience is quite a bit broader than that. normal folks posting about normal stuff.

And considering the forums you've put this on so far - maybe it's perfect.

I would think if you roll it out to the less adsy forums, you would have 98% of posts being normies posting normy stuff, and we might wanna tweak it for that audience.