paul wheaton

Now we are getting into my favorite kind of conversation.

I feel like the core is:

  - gardening and not farming (farming choices are very different)

  - things that can be harvested in deep winter

Growing a high calories per acre crop is easy.  But it becomes difficult if you have to have a lot of discipline to harvest at the right moment.  And if you miss that moment, it quickly drops to zero calories per acre.  So a large harvest window is handy.

My starter staples are:

sunchokes
walking onions
annual kale (which reseeds itself)

Winter keeper apples are good.  They have a large harvest window.  

This year we are planting skirret and parsnips.  Both can be harvested through the winter.

Winter squash is okay.  Just pick it and put it inside and it will keep for several months.

Kinda thinking that we would provide a giant audio file here on permies.  If andres wants to set it up at audible, that's a possibility.

click on the thumbs up for this post if you would part with ten to fifteen bucks for this to exist.

If we were to record the willow feeder ebook into an audiobook, would anybody be interested in buying that?  Kinda looking at $10 to $15.

It sounds like it could cost hundreds or thousands ... Or we could spend 80 hours to make it ourselves.  

If we are gonna sell 50, then it could be worth it.  But if we are gonna sell 4, then it is definitely not worth it, and we should put our time into other projects.

(I'm gonna delete anything with the slightest whiff of politics.  I am starting this thread to talk about solutions, not being angry at bad guys)

I am currently on the phone with andres.  He is ...  well ....  I wanna say "concerned", but it is closer to "freaking the fuck out" ...   Maybe I need a word between these two.  

Andres has sever topics "concerning" him.  Political, climate stuff, economic changes ....   he isn't weeping right now, but i suspect that that is on the agenda for later.  

Andres wants all of everybody in the world to know about our big gardening resources.  And then this discussion can move on to "what if?"

    https://gardenmastercourse.com
    https://pdcvid.com
    https://earthworksmovie.com
    https://permies.com/pump - automatic backyard food pump
    https://permies.com/hug - hugelkultur



What if the price of food goes up 10x?

Naturally, if you have a humble home and a large garden, this isn't such a big deal.  In fact, with a humble home and a large garden, all of politics becomes small and far away.

I guess some of us are ready.  I am growing enough food to feed 20 people.  Most of it can be harvested through the winter.

I get the impression that there is huge concern for people that are currently not growing food.  I feel like I have been trying to persuade people to grow their own food for decades, so I want to direct those people to all the stuff I have shared over the last couple of decades.  I do feel the best stuff is my most recent "automatic backyard food pump."

Sorry about that Mike.  I have now emailed justin - we'll get it figured out!

I see it in your "my stuff".  You own https://permies.com/wiki/209356/Garden-Master-HD-Streaming-Garden

When you go to that thread, you should see 21 videos embedded in the thread that normal people cannot see.

We have a truck lined up, but it will arrive later.  We are gonna reschedule.

A lot of events all over the world have stopped in the last few years.  Maybe people are just getting knowledge overload.  

I am glad that we did a PTJ ticket blitz a couple of years ago.  We sold tickets for $540 with the idea that that the value of the ticket is more like $2500 (so I would end up shelling out $25k for the event to be able to happen).   And we had ample people *say* that they would buy a ticket, but in the end, we didn't sell enough.  And lots of people were very frustrated by this - because they wanted the event to exist anyway!  So then I thought I could subsidize events after a kickstarter does well.  But the kickstarters haven't done well either.  

I like how we did the RMH blitz a few weeks ago.  The price of the tickets were something like $700.  The event was five days, and it would be followed by a bonus week of half-assed rockety stuff.  But the event would start small and grow as more people bought tickets.  So we would not be in the red from the start.  Nice.  But we didn't sell enough tickets.

I know that people love to attend a great event that is worth $4000 per ticket, but they paid only $400 per ticket.  And it isn't so bad if we can gather a whole bunch of video to make a movie that gets us a pile of coin from a kickstarter.  

We are shifting.  

I think we are now leaning into the bootcamp and the sepper program.  So kinda like a year-round constant event.  

Seppers have some small influence over bootcamp projects, so they can pop into the bootcamp when the projects sound fun.  And once in a while we will pay for a ringer to come in.



Therefore, there is no 2026 schedule.  

Maybe if we have a strong kickstarter or two we can get back into this.