2023 Permaculture Technology Jamboree: July 3rd - 14th, Wheaton Labs

This event has multiple purposes:

Move permaculture technology forward: Collaboration, experimentation and innovation in the field of permaculture!

eprovides experiences for people new to permaculture technology

building homesteading skills

To gain hands on experience with various technologies

Community and conversation with people who are bonkers about permaculture!

Our Jamboree Format:
Attendees can wander throughout the labs to see all of the innovative permaculture projects, and participate or observe as much or as little as they like. The instructors will see a project to completion either with or without help.

60+ Permaculture Technology Projects!

Below are some of the proposed projects for 2023!



ROCKET HEAT:

Build a Rocket Oven for an Outdoor Kitchen

Build a Rocket that Generates Electricity

NATURAL BUILDING:

Cob Sinks and Showers

Insulation

Build a Yurt

Slab Trees Freehand with a Chainsaw, and Build a Roundwood Deck

Natural Plasters & Paint

Sheep Wool Insulation

Felted Walls for Insulating a Space

TEXTILES:

Make Window Quilts

Weave a Sun-Shade from Natural Fibers

Sew and Stuff a Straw Tick Mattress

Weaving a Rug or Blanket

& More!

FOOD PREP, PRESERVATION & PROPAGATION:

Preserve a Million Calories

Store food for winter without electricity (6 ways)

Stock a root cellar for 20 people for the year

Make Pottery from Clay Harvest on Site

Build a Hugel and Plant it!

TECH:

Add Permanent Solar to a Tiny House

Electric Tractor Hayride Tour

Heating Water with the Sun without Needing Winterizing

Install a

Fire up the Solar Glass

& More!

BODGER:

Build a Log Picnic Table & Bench

Build Log Bunk Beds

Build a Skiddable Bodger Shed

Build a Roundwood staircase

Build a Three Log Bench

& More!

BEES:

Build a Few Hives

Build a Swarm Trap

Extract Honey

Build a Log Beehive Shelter

Build a Log Style Beehive

& More!

EARTHWORKS:

Install a Passive Garden Heater

Build a Holzer Root Cellar in a Day

Natural swimming pool

SKIP:

A track dedicated to the "Skills to Inherit Property" program

Knock out a bunch of BBs with the help of PEP1 certified instructors

Basic Birdhouse

Wood Burned Signs

Make a Kindling Cracker

Tool Handle

& More!

HOMESTEADING:

Make Seed Balls

Plant a Living Fence

Foraging

Make Twine

Bake Bread in a Rocket Oven

Make wax Cloths / Lunch Kit / Jar cover

Create Public Art

& More!

DRYSTACK:

Build a Drystack Moongate

Create Drystack Stairs

A Drystack Wall to Protect a Fruit Tree

Daily Schedule

7:00am – breakfast
8:00am – summary of the day
8:30am – session 1
10:00am – session 2
noon – lunch
1:00pm – session 3
3:00pm – session 4
5:00pm – cleanup
6:00pm – dinner
7:00pm – evening presentations
9:30pm to 6:00am – quiet time

Arrival: Day Zero (July 2 - the day before the beginning of the event) Register and get settled in.
airport pickups: 10am to 5pm
arrival by car: 1pm to 5pm



Instructors


Chris McClellan -- Instructor:
Uncle Mud (aka Chris McClellan) raises free-range, organic children in the wilds of northeast Ohio. Between building things out of mud and junk he writes for Mother Earth News Magazine and teaches simple DIY skills at workshops and fairs.

Paul Wheaton -- Host/Instructor
Paul Wheaton, The Duke of Permaculture, is an author, producer, and certified advanced master gardener. 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.


Opalyn Rose -- Instructor
Opalyn Rose has been exploring a truly raw-material life while stewarding land and community in south-central Washington. Opalyn tends the sheep and the forest, transforming a fleece or a tree into not only yarn and lumber but clothing and snowmen too.  She brings her love of that transformation to the classroom sharing her skills while helping you develop yours.

Mike Haasl -- Instructor
Mike Haasl is a mechanical engineer, woodworker, blacksmith, and permaculture homesteader in northern Wisconsin.  He constructed a sweet greenhouse, builds with pallets and upcycled material, and experiments with compost heat.  He is developing a demonstration site for permaculture homesteading, and is collaborating to create the SKIP program.

Austin Durant -- Instructor
Austin Durant has been playing with his food his whole life, and fermenting it for over ten years. In 2011, he created Fermenters Club with a mission: To improve people’s lives by teaching them why and how to make and enjoy fermented foods; and to create communities that are connected through their guts. He teaches classes (online courses and hands-on workshops) on many fermented food traditions such as sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi, kombucha, miso, as well as seasonal specialties. He writes and shares recipes, videos and other fermentation adventures on his blog, fermentersclub.com. An otherwise permie newbie, Austin tends to his small garden in zone 10a, urban/coastal San Diego, California and is greatly looking forward to attending his first PDC and instructing at the PTJ at the Lab this year!

James Juczak -- Instructor
He has had numerous articles published; his book "The High Art and Subtle Science of Scrounging, 2nd ed." is currently available and he is presently writing several other books. He has been dubbed "The King of Scrounge". Jim has taught energy, solar certification and electronics as an adjunct professor at three colleges. He has also worked as a Community Energy Educator in 10 northern New York counties. He also brought skills to Kandahar, Afghanistan where he worked as a civilian contractor with the US Army's 10th Mountain Brigade teaching appropriate technologies to the US and Afghan armies as well as the local civilian population. Jim lives with his wife, Krista, in their round, cordwood and papercrete home on the property where they have established an off-grid intentional community. He is an EMT and an adjunct professor at SUNY Jefferson where he teaches the NABCEP Solar Installers course.

Michael Otten -- Instructor
Michael Otten (Stoic the Dirt Hippy) is a traveling sustainable developer with a passion for earthen building and passive solar design.

Samantha Lewis-- Instructor
Samantha grew up weaving and doing needle work with her mother and grandmother. After high school she bought 60 acres of Washington forest land and built an off grid homestead. She attended Wilderness Awareness School and taught youth programs there for many years. She apprenticed with educator, author, artist Heidi Bohan, learning baskets and medicinal and traditional uses of plants. She likes to make her own clothes and grow her own food, living the permaculture dream on 5000 acres of Washington prairie land where she raises Finn sheep and other animals.

Beau Davidson-- Instructor
Beau is an audio engineer and music producer, and natural building contractor and consultant. Currently Beau resides on his multi-generational family farm in South Central Kansas, where he makes innovative, ecologically-contextualized structures, landscapes, and spaces out of the physical materials at hand. Currently they have an ecological research initiative to tend the borderland between philosophy and practice of resource-stewardship, creativity, and whole-living.-- Instructor[/b]

Justin Popa - Instructor
Justin is a metal worker from Michigan with crunchy tendencies.  After spending all his money on a welding engineering degree, he pursued his true passion of historic technology as a museum blacksmith.  For the last 7 years he has shared his love of hot metal with the public while building and repairing items with 18th century hand tools. Always looking to learn more traditional skills, he has worked on cob, strawbale, and thatching projects at the Strawbale Studio in Michigan.

JR Megee - Instructor
JR has had a successful handyman business for 15 years. He's currently working on a chemical-free remodel project, is a permaculture enthusiast, and a certified Garden Master.  JR is a graduate of Geoff Lawton's online permaculture design course, a frequent visitor to Wheaton labs, a Boot Camp ringer, and a lifelong learner with a growing desire to teach.

Trenton Alexander
"There's no place like home, and home is what we make it. I find my home is a sanctuary, where the human experience is synonymous with wildlife. The garden is the point where those two worlds meet. I consider myself a gardener, first and foremost. I also specialize in plant based medicine. Forever a student of the plants, lately I find myself Master-apprentice in Phytoremediation on my own homestead and beyond."

Rebekah Harmon - Guest Cook
Rebekah is a friendly little mama from rural Idaho. She loves local, healthy food! If she isn't in the garden or kitchen, you might find her hiking, kayaking, serving her community as a massage therapist, or reading fantasy books to her 6 kids.



2021 Participants!

Tickets

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