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Paul Wheaton, The Duke of Permaculture, is an author, producer, certified advanced master gardener, and owner of. 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.
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The 2024 Permaculture Adventure Bundle includes over $600 worth of resources to help you reach your sustainable homesteading goals.  Start or continue your permaculture adventure today!  With a diverse bunch of digital resources, this incredible package will accelerate your resilience and shortcut your journey to creating a permaculture homestead in next to no time with this epic deal.


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Thanks to our contributing authors and creators for making this such a great deal.


What's inside:



 
Roundhouse Studio Plans Package & Earthbag Building Guide eBook
by Owen Geiger (courtesy of Kelly Hart)
These plans are available as digital PDF files and are offered by Dr. Owen Geiger as complete and ready to build from. They include necessary elevations, floorplans, cross section details, and other significant construction details.



Finding the Perfect Homestead Property Course (2 Lessons)
by Curtis Stone
Join Curtis Stone, for 2 sample lessons from the epic online course Finding the Perfect Homestead Property. Find your dream homestead property using a simple 3-part framework & Google Earth Pro.



PawPaw Quick Start Guide (Video and eBook)
by Michael Judd
Learn from master gardener, Michael Judd, to enrich your knowledge and connection with PawPaws, through this introductory taster package.  Enjoy the first lesson from Michael's online pawpaw course plus the info-packed Resources chapter from his book.



Boosting Your Garden Yields by Growing Algae presentation
by Matt Huber
From the 'Best of' series of talks put together by the Superfood Garden Summit, Matt Huber's informative talk about boosting your garden yields by growing algae is now available to stream.



Wooden Door with Mycelium Insulation and Proenneke Hinge Guide and Plans
by Andres Bernal
Step by step guide plan for a wooden door with mycelium insulation and a Proenneke hinge designed by Beau Davidson and made during the Permaculture Technology Jamboree 2022 at Wheaton Labs, and part of the Low Tech Laboratory Movie.



Permaculture Guilds Training Session
by Permaculture Gardens
An online training session on the topic of Guilds and Companion Planting.



Hugelkultur: The Ultimate Raised-Bed Gardening eBook (Draft)
by Paul Wheaton
Learn the why's and how to's of hugelkultur from the Duke himself.



Easy Homemade Body Products eBook
by Merissa A. Alink
Dive into the world of making your own homemade body products and skip all the scary ingredients in the store bought lotions.



Composting Toilet Design Plan PDF
by Rancho Mastatal
Rancho Mastatal have put together a document that outlines how their composting toilets are designed and made.



The Design and Build of the Giant Solar Food Dehydrator Movie
by Paul Wheaton
Follow along with the group as they discuss the merits of design elements, and then go on to the build of the dehydrator and get great insight into how to proceed when building your own.



Save Our Bees - Your Guide To Creating A Bee Friendly Environment eBook
by Jason Johns
A comprehensive guide to show you what you can do to save our dwindling bee population.



DIY Specialty Soaps eBook
by The Nerdy Farm Wife
The Nerdy Farm Wife presents an essential 55 page guide to making your own soaps, shampoo bars, solid dish & laundry soaps, rice water soaps and salt & brine bars.  With over 28 creative & useful recipes, images and easy to understand instructions, you'll be making top notch homemade products in no time.



Building a Cob Style Rocket Mass Heater - HD instant view
by Paul Wheaton
Watch how they built a cob style rocket mass heater at Wheaton Labs.



Earthen Walls Webinar
by Natalie Bogwalker of Wild Abundance
Detailing the background, pros, and cons of 9 different earthen wall systems: adobe, rammed earth, cob, earthbag, slip straw, hempcrete, log, cordwood, and strawbale.



Paul Wheaton Podcast Review of Botany in a Day by Thomas Elpel
by Paul Wheaton
Listen to Paul as he talks about how Botany in a Day is changing the way people learn about plants.



Wildcrafting Weeds eBook
by Colleen Codekas & Joel Schwartz
Wildcrafting Weeds: 20 Easy to Forage Edible and Medicinal Plants teaches beginning foragers how to identify common edible and medicinal plants. You’ll learn straightforward techniques and recipes to forage and use wild weeds with confidence!



Building a Better World in Your Backyard eBook
This book is full of practical projects you can do today, right where you live, to make a difference in your life and in the world.



45 Low Tech Things Webinar Recording
by Paul Wheaton
In this recorded presentation and discussion, Paul covered 45 Low Tech Things - an extension of and update to his famous 72 Bricks to Build a Better World keynote from Permaculture Voices.


 
Issue 110 & Issue 118
by Permaculture Design Magazine
Digital issues 110 'Permaculture Ethics' and 118 'Wild Yields' from the wonderful Permaculture Design Magazine.



Practical Mending eBook
by Kate Downham
Create resilience and reduce waste with this helpful guide that teaches you about what you will need to get started, and the techniques to repair damaged clothes and make them wearable again. Suitable for complete beginners and up.



Cooking with a Rocket Oven (Video)
by Paul Wheaton
In this 19 minute video, Erica shows us how to cook in a rocket oven.



Thermophilic Compost For the Garden and Homestead PDF
by Alan Booker
Alan Booker's notes on Making Thermophilic Compost for the Garden or Homestead.



Paul Wheaton Podcast Gob: 281-320
by Paul Wheaton huckleberry
Listen to 40 of Paul's podcasts, all in one sitting, if you dare! Interviews with Willie Smits, Diana Leafe Christian, Geoff Lawton, bees, Permaculture Voices and so much more!




6 Issues of Tiny House Magazine
Tiny House Magazine is a digital magazine dedicated to micro, tiny, small, and otherwise non-traditional housing. All of the 2023 issues are featured here as one purchase (Issues 126-131), to build your tiny house info library!



Helen Atthowe's Backyard Food Forest - Webinar Recording
In this webinar, Helen goes over the 10 principles of managing ecological relationships, soil health, and how to start your own Backyard Food Forest.




Water Biofilters and Composting Toilet Systems with Tim Barker - Presentation from Online PDC/ATC
by Paul Wheaton
This presentation is 2hrs and 3 minutes long (HD Streaming) and is one of many presentations given during the full 133 hours of recorded PDC & ATC presentations



Why Chickens are the Enablers and Heroes of Permaculture Design Workshop
by Patricia Foreman (courtesy of Diego Footer)
This cutting-edge workshop explores the ever-expanding ways to employ chickens to help navigate these transition times. Learn how family flocks create & enhance food-growing topsoils, help grow vegetables, berries, nuts & fruits, sequester carbon and decrease carbon foot-prints and even be be part of emergency preparedness plans—all the while saving community taxes. Understand that employing family flocks is truly a community service.



Living Wood magazine - Issue 6
Living Woods is a quarterly magazine for everyone who loves woodland, trees and timber. So whether you dream of owning your own woodland, want to learn new and exciting woodland skills and activities or simply want to enjoy the therapy of quiet, green woodworking, Living Woods Magazine will show you the way.



Core Site Layout: Zone 1 Site Planning Online Workshop
by Ben Falk
In this workshop, Ben Falk navigates through various aspects of effective "Zone 1" planning and design – helping you understand the principles behind optimizing your immediate living area for sustainability and productivity.



Saving Our Seeds eBook – The Practice & Philosophy
by Bevin Cohen
A great how-to guide, leading the reader step by step through the process of saving their seeds from 43 different crops; from adzuki beans to wheat and everything in between.



Celery Wine: The Story of a Country Commune eBook
by Elaine Sundancer (courtesy of Foundation for Intentional Community)
Celery Wine is the touching true story of moving to a country community in the wilds of Oregon in the early 1970’s. The book includes practical tips, funny and inspiring stories, delicious recipes, and good lessons about what works and what doesn’t – in life and in communities.



The Beginning Gardener's Toolbox eBook
by Carly MacQuarrie of The Little Green Shoot
Everything you need to create your dream garden space any time of year, even in the city. Aimed at beginners, it also has some worksheets that could come in handy for gardeners at any stage looking to get a bit better organized!


How to Bake without Baking Powder eBook
by Leigh Tate
Baking powder has a limited shelf life, but with this PDF eBook from Leigh Tate's The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos, you will be able to create your own leavening power through basic kitchen chemistry.


Northern Great Basin Restoration Agriculture Biome Models Presentation
by Neil Bertrando
This presentation contains fairly extensive species lists for each biome type, provides examples of various landscape positions and potential multi-species plantings that fit into each position.




 


11 hours ago

Glenn Raleigh wrote:I got one envelope and only one with 2 DVD's Wood Burning Stoves 2,0 and DIY Rocket Mass Heaters. Thart is it no boxes just an envelope



Wood Burning Stoves 2.0 contains 4 DVDs

Better Wood Heat contains 4 DVDs





The DVDs come in a "DVD box".  Open the "DVD box" to see the DVDs inside.
1 day ago

Glenn Raleigh wrote:I ordered the 8 DVD set for $22.50 and received only 2 videos which I bought years ago



Did you open the packages?  There should be 4 DVDs in each box.
1 day ago

Walter Byrd wrote:Is there a difference in the ebook sold here, and the ebook sold on Amazon?



I am not certain.  I suspect there is no substantial difference.
2 days ago
I just did a search.  I'm surprised I've never shared this here.  I know that this has been something I have shared with a few people for most of my life.

I was just talking to a few of the boots about cold temps coming.  The coldest temperature we have ever had here for a moment is 26 below.   I pointed out that when it gets THAT cold, it is sorta cool to bundle up and go outside for a few hours.  If you can do it and be comfortable, then it feels like you have passed a test of sorts.  A sort of IQ test.  I'm not sure, but I think most people would not pass - they would simply complain and refuse to go outside.  

I remember being a young fella and working late on a software project.  At that time, I refused to own a car and went everybody on my bike.  I even made home-made studded tires for the winter.  Time to ride my bike home.  1.6 miles - not all that far.  Bitter cold outside with a powerful wind.  I ended up standing on the pedals to get home since it was against the wind.  I had four layers of gloves, a good, wool balaclava, and when it is this cold I wear my scarf over my face.  A layer of ice formed on the scarf, but the hard work with all the layers actually made me overly warm.  When I got home, i started stripping down outside to cool off.  The next morning, the paper reported

      100 below!

... with wind chill.  And 30 below without.  Looking it up right now it says numbers that are not so extreme.  Oh well.  Apparently the police were not allowing people to be out.  I guess I slipped by them unawares.

The point is:  I did a thing.  I thought it was cool.  I still think it is cool.  I hadn't planned on doing it.  I was just going home and it turned out to be colder than I thought it would be.  But I was prepared.  Layers. Studded tires.  Thick scarf that I can breathe through.




Last winter ...   at my place here in montana ...   the temp never got below zero - not even for a moment.  I think the coldest it got was 7 degrees.  I think half the winters are like that - where it doesn't get below zero.  

I was trying to say that if it does get really cold, it feels good to be prepared and put a full day in out in the cold.  The bootcamp usually comes up with all indoor activities for days where it can be uncomfortable outside.  But there is a sensation of having accomplished something if you do it.  

This morning I said it was a bit like the fremen from dune.  They gotta have it together or they won't survive outside.  




I guess it is a kinda dumb thing to work, outside, all day, in brittle cold.  I did it several times when i was eleven, living with my grandad.  We had stuff that needed to be done, so we went and did it.  The air has a different smell at 20 below or 30 below.  I remember feeding cows and getting an icicle on my nose - not quite an inch long.  And my nose was warm enough that there is a thin layer of water between the icicle and my nose, so you can shake off the icicle.  But instead, I wanted to see how long it could get before falling off.  The longest i even got to was about an inch.

I was trying to say ...  and i think i said it poorly ...  if you take the challenge and it turns out to be easy, you sorta impress yourself.  You did a thing.  It didn't make money or impress anybody.   Over the years of your life you come up with hundreds of little things and add them all up on  your death resume.  Nobody cares but you.


To spend a day, outside, in the cold, layers are important.  Including layers of gloves.  Layers on your legs.  We have overboots here now and people seem mighty keen on them.   Add and remove layers to optimize comfort.   And then when a day of bitter cold comes along, it could be easy.  And when that day ends - you did a cool thing.  


A long time ago I came up with "death resume" as a way to justify doing stupid things just so i can have the sensation that i did a thing.  Surely I am not the only one that likes this sensation?  And has a list of stupid accomplishments?


potato harvest is in full swing!
We have ten boots here now.  Here are three of them learning about rock jacks and putting up a sign on complexity trail.


12 decks of the permaculture playing cards

5 days ago


2 decks of the permaculture playing cards!

While these are fully functional poker cards, their primary purpose is to show people the rich diversity of permaculture. Permaculture embraces gardening well beyond organic, plus natural building, greening the deserts, alternative energy, feeding the world and blazing a trail for less toxic living.

These cards were created with the idea of "what would be a great holiday gift that I could give to my friends and family that thinks my permaculture lifestyle is crazy. Something they would enjoy, and that might make me seem less crazy and it's a stocking stuffer too!"

52 poker size playing cards introduce sustainable living as a gift to organic gardeners, including cards for:
  • Sepp Holzer, Bill Mollison, Ruth Stout, Masanobu Fukuoka, Mike Oehler, Art Ludwig
  • Greywater, Rocket Mass Heater, Hugelkultur, Bamboo, Allan Savory, Willie Smits, Fungi, Jean Pain
  • Natural Swimming Pool, Chickens, Pigs, Ben Law, Electric Tractor, Honey Bees, Mason Bees, Trees
  • Food Preservation, Compost, Wildcrafting, Food as Medicine, Food Forest, Solar Food Dehydrator



  • hugelkultur playing card rocket mass heater playing card bugs soil permaculture playing card




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