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2021 Permaculture Technology Jamboree: June 28th-July 9th, Wheaton Labs

paul wheaton

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Ryan Adobe wrote:Hi Paul et. al., the border closure was just extended by another month, and it doesn't seem like it will open next month either. If the offer is still open to use my ticket for the 2022 event then I would like to officially accept so that you can maybe give my spot away to someone else.

Ryan,

I am just now seeing this - did we get you all sorted via email?

Amay Zheng

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Jim - We wend scrounging along a railroad and found many many railroad spikes and other goodies! Drilled 2 holes into the railroad spikes, then heated it so we can bend it. You can attach these to walls and make a nice rustic clothes hanger. Forgot what these were called unfortunately.

First time I worked with metal! I had no idea drilling through iron was so easy.

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Justin Gerardot

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I have been working on the drystack foundation for the solarium project. This has been a fun puzzle. Too bad my rocks at home are all round. Here are a couple progress pics. We are close to finishing up this part of the project

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Justin Gerardot

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Today I learned how to ferment vegetables, make kimchi, can vegetables, and make salves.

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Davin Hoyt

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Justin Gerardot

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I started my day making some tinctures from dry and fresh herbs. Then I decided to play in the mud and work on the solar/rocket dehydrator

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Fiona Conneely

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fermentation photo dump -- thank you Austin!

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Justin Gerardot

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Here are some pictures from the last two days.

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Justin Gerardot

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Today I finally got to build a rocket forge that did not end up working. This was towards the end of the schedule and uncle mud seemed to be juggling too many projects, so for several days I helped him to get a chance to play with a forge. Uncle mud is fantastic to work with by the way, I enjoyed joking around while getting stuff done.

I ended up taking a fire brick core with a metal feed tube and placed it into a cut off end of a 55 gallon drum and filled it with sand. I then took insulated fire bricks and stacked a heat riser with a window at the bottom to stick the metal in. I then wrapped the heat riser in ceramic blanket. The hottest it got in the window was around 1100 °F, it was hotter in the coals at the bottom of the feed tube (1250 °F). As I was burning, Paul walks by and says 'want me to shit on your design', so I have that to look forward to as a dinner discussion. It is not my design, but it was quick to build and I have learned quite a bit in this experiment.

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Justin Gerardot

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I had a good discussion with Paul and uncle mud at dinner about future rocket forge plans. I figured on my own that the insulated heat bricks and a metal feed tube were not ideal and paul confirmed. Some things that I did not think of (I'm a rocket novice) included a taller than normal feed tube made out of fire brick and a longer much better insulated burn tunnel. I wish I was able to attend the rocket event in October

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