LTLM KS Penny Poll

The Low Tech Lab Movie documents last year's Permaculture Technology Jamboree (PTJ) – an innovative and exciting collaborative event that seeks to push the boundaries and move permaculture technology forward for the greater good! The 2023 event is on its way and we're keen to find out your thoughts on what you'd like to see this year so we've brought in the penny vote (drum roll please)!!!

Over the next 3 days, vote for your favorite PTJ artifact by adjusting your Kickstarter backer amount by pennies. The top activities voted for will be featured in this year's event and may even make it into another instructional movie further down the track - so you can choose your own adventure! Use your vote to let us know what you'd like to see.

To participate, just change your backer amount to reflect your vote. For example, if your favorite PTJ artifact is the rocket hot tub, you would change your dollar amount from $100 to $100.13. It's that easy! Click Here for more info on how to change your backer amount.

The icing on the cake is that this year, the backer who votes and puts up the most coin will get a 2-day ticket to the 2023 PTJ!  

Cast your vote here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/low-tech?ref=3oty3q

If you want to buy a ticket for this year's event go here!





$xx.11 Round Wood Timber Framing  
Round wood comes straight from the tree, with or without the bark, and has not been cut, squared, or planked. Timber framing is the process of making a building's frame out of wood.  Round wood is 2 and a half times stronger than the equivalent in dimensional lumber.  The truly passive greenhouse, Allerton Abbey, the round wood picnic table, the berm shed, and others are examples of round wood construction at Wheaton Labs
For the 2023 PTJ, maybe build a pavilion, a berm shed, or maybe something up at the Lab. Round timber shower shack?  Round wood staircase?  If round wood timber framing is your favorite PTJ artifact, vote by raising your backer amount by $xx.11.


https://permies.com/wiki/213701





$XX.12 Bodger Love
Bodging is an old way of turning wood that is used to make chair legs and other round parts of chairs out of green wood. Work was done near where a tree had been cut down.   You can also create other items using the bodger method.  For the 2023 PTJ, how about a whole bunch of bodger projects making amazing things from green wood - spoons, roundwood furniture, boxes, bins, counters, sinks, shelves, benches, etc.  Using mostly hand tools and little to no metal fasteners. If bodger love is your favorite PTJ artifact, vote by raising your backer amount by $XX.12.


https://permies.com/wiki/213707





$XX.13 Rocket hot tub
At the 2023 PTJ, what about finishing the Rocket Hot Tub?  Paul and Mud had talked about building one that seated approximately 6 people.  They discussed different styles, such as heating it from the bottom, using copper pipe, and even digging a big hole in the ground and fill it with clay (firing it, to vitrify the clay) and have an unpressurized rocket water heater next to it.  It sounds exciting! If the rocket hot tub is your favorite project for this year's PTJ, vote by raising your backer amount by $XX.13.  


https://permies.com/w/213690







$XX.14 Solar Electricity stuff
Solar power is the process of making electricity from the sun's energy. This can be done directly with photovoltaics or indirectly with concentrated solar power. The photovoltaic effect is how photovoltaic cells turn light into an electric current.  For the 2023 PTJ, maybe bringing off-grid power to a new location at the Lab (Cooper Cabin?)
If solar electricity stuff is your favorite project for this year's PTJ, vote by raising your backer amount by $XX.14.  


https://permies.com/t/213695/PTJ-Solar-Power




$XX.15  Indoor rocket oven project
The rocket oven built using these plans at the 2017 PTJ can be adapted to be used indoors.  Rocket ovens are completely off-grid and leave a fraction of the carbon footprint of a traditional stove.  For the 2023 PTJ, maybe build an indoor version of the rocket oven.  If the rocket oven is your favorite project for this year's PTJ, vote by raising your backer amount by $XX.15.  


https://permies.com/wiki/213759




$XX.16 Dry stack moon gate
Dry stacked rock retaining walls are affordable and easy to produce.  Plus, you can do some pretty cool things like make a dry stack moon gate.  Rock lasts a lot longer than wood, meaning that if stacked correctly, your dry stack project could last a very, very long time.  For the 2023 PTJ, what about correctly stacking rock to have a wall with a 2-foot round hole?  If this is your favorite PTJ artifact, vote by raising your backer amount by $XX.16.  

https://permies.com/wiki/213708






$XX.17  Cob!  
Cob is a natural building material made from subsoil, water, fibrous organic material (usually straw), and sometimes lime.  You can build cob homes, cob ovens, cob tubs, cob showers, cob kitchens...the list goes on and on.
For the 2023 PTJ, how about grading sand, mixing, testing, and building?  Basic cob, fine finish cob.  Finishing methods. Also natural paint, natural plaster, and natural dye. Mostly from stuff foraged at the Lab.  If cob is your favorite PTJ artifact, vote by raising your backer amount by $XX.17.  


https://permies.com/wiki/213710


$XX.18. Apothecary: from forest to pantry
An apothecary is like a pharmacy, but a collection of natural remedies, made from herbs and flowers, roots and leaves.  You can walk out into nature and find healing plants almost anywhere you look.
For the 2023 PTJ, a potential project would be the entire process of identifying, wildcrafting, processing, and creating a plant ally into a healing remedy (including how to properly preserve your plants, ingredients, and products).  If apothecary is your favorite PTJ artifact, vote by raising your backer amount by $XX.18.


https://permies.com/w/213697




$XX.19  Flowforms
Flowforms mimic a mountain stream, oxygenate the water, help the breakdown of organic matter within the water (resulting in better-smelling water), and beneficially structure water. For the 2023 PTJ, a project making flow-forms to carry away rainwater run-off to a useful spot, using homemade non-gicky cement.  If this is your favorite PTJ artifact, vote by raising your backer amount by $XX.19.


https://permies.com/w/213703