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Summary
part 2 of a 2 part podcast
Paul and Stephen continue talking about aspirations.
Paul sees people buying homesteads, but many of them fail - often they're not well prepared, and work harder than they need to. He feels bootcamp would be a good way for people to find out if they could take on homesteading. Stephen agrees: it's why he came to Wheaton labs and bootcamp.
Paul mentions when he found he had cancer: He couldn't see how he got it, but when he looked into it although he lived a very organic life, he still ate in restaurants and other food which wasn't organic. Genetics was also relevant.
Paul wants to see 20 people living there year-round. He feels it would be good if they were people who arrived there wanting to change their life. He would also like to see that all of those people had different expertise, which they developed at bootcamp. He mentions Josiah who developed skill in roundwood building.
Stephen comments that it's important that people can work with others. Being too much of an individual doesn't help the team. He'd like to see a dozen full-time residents. Paul feels that bootcamp is working well as a community and the occasional bad people either leave or are kicked out.
Paul is keen on what he calls half-assed holidays and that they should become awesome.
Paul's last topic is there have been some really good Seppers and short-duration boots. Stephen mentions Faith who's going to med school but had a week off at bootcamp and jumped into everything that was going on, which resulted in a lot getting done.
Right now they are easily able to feed people from the gardens. The talk about sunchokes: deer eat the foliage in the fall, but they don't dig up tubers. Paul reports fewer side effects from eating them enough. Stephen says making sunchoke chips also mitigates the side effects.
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