Wheaton Labs Tour June 21-22, 2025

This will be the first time in four years we have done the tour.  Here is a vid we took four years ago - 65 low tech things in 9 minutes

from four years ago:

• Roundwood timber framing a Couch Balcony
• Rolly Shelves
• Peter Vanderberg’s batch box rocket mass heater
• What is a stratification chamber?
• The easy bake coffin
• Rocket Oven
• Bermshed
• How we get our posts to last Bermshed continuation
• Rocket water heater
• Shower Shack
• Willow feeder
• Solar food dehydrator
• Unpressurized rocket water heater
• Willowonka
• Berm
• Drystack
• Apricot alley
• Fire wood rack
• Hugelkultur
• Rocketiest rocket mass heater
• Rocket mass heater for cooling in the summer
• 3 possible ways to improve the rocket mass heater system
• Garden patches
• Dry stack retention wall 2
• The Gulag and Sepp Holzer grain
• Tangle foot fence
• Junk-pole fence
• Rockjacks
• Haybox cooker
• No more external air intake for rmh
• Incandescent and led lighting at the Labs
• Workstation dock
• Cooper cabin Wofati building
• Cooper cabin gapper program (pre bootcamp)
• Cooper cabin umbrella
• Cooper cabin rocket cooktop
• Indoor willow feeder
• Allerton Abbey
• Natural floors
• Rocket cooktop 2.0
• Truly passive greenhouse
• Teepee Park
• Rocket mass heater teepee
• Skidable woodshed

New stuff includes

• dry stack moon gate
• new rocket mass heater in the red cabin
• cob hats for rocket mass heaters
• solarium
• new rocket mass heater in the solarium
• yoga yurt with cob floor
• new rocket mass heater in wood shop
• rocket kiln
• rocket sauna
• round wood pump house with mycelium insulated roof
• round wood timber framing with a dove tail joint as a giant grape arbor
• bob and bobra
• log picnic table
• log stairs
• lorena cook stove
• experiments with log chairs with zero glue or fasteners
• solar food dehydrator with rocket assist
• log pergola
• humus well

probably more, but this is what i can think of right now.

Is this $100 per person??  Are there other costs?  I'm willing to front some coins for a couple of tickets as a give away,  Let me know,

Peace

Deane Adams wrote:Is this $100 per person??  Are there other costs?  I'm willing to front some coins for a couple of tickets as a give away,  Let me know,

Peace

Maybe a giveaway to people with BB20 or higher?

Paul, that sounds fine to me.  I'll do my thing with the postal service today, early next week you'll have the funds.

Peace

Paul I put some extra coins in the mail, use it as you see fit.  Maybe buy more coffee, I understand that you have some new boots,  Or perhaps to help keep Gir in bacon.

Set up the give away as you want, you've been doing these things for some time now.  I know you'll come up with an outstanding plan.

Peace

Deane has dropped some coin for three people to come for free.  So if you wanna come and you have BB20 or better, say so and I will set you up with one of the tickets!

That is really kind, thank you Deane!

Timothy Norton wrote:That is really kind, thank you Deane!

Are you wanting one of the tickets?

I can't commit at the moment, but I'm seeing if I can arrange something in my calendar.

Timothy, I'm just doing what I can to help the Empire!  I hope you will be able to make all the necessary arrangements so that you may attend.

Paul, for any future events at the lab, if you feel that free tickets would be of some benefit in raising interest, please drop an email I'll be glad to help.

Peace

Are kids welcome? like grade school/junior high age who are interested in such things as WL has to offer? I am thinking this would be a perfect chance for kids to see some natural building, rockety, permaculture stuff as it wouldn't be as tricky if they were at a workshop? Also, can bribe them with kittens. Also, will Cedar be there?

There may or may not be other kids there.  

We had some great kids here for more than a month around christmas.  All great.

Over all the years, there have been great kids, awful kids and all sorts of in between.  Really it all depends on the parents.

All i ask is if kids are disrupting the event to take them away from the event.