Kickstarter for the Low Tech Laboratory Movie!! April 2023

$78,625!

Thank you everyone!  It is great to see so many people are going to get to learn these skills!

Samantha Lewis wrote:$78,625!

Thank you everyone!  It is great to see so many people are going to get to learn these skills!

We are currently past:

   permaculture playing cards $70,835
   world domination gardening $65,089
   free heat $77,791

next up

   rocket ovens $80,016

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paul wheaton wrote:

We are currently past:

   permaculture playing cards $70,835
   world domination gardening $65,089
   free heat $77,791

next up

   rocket ovens $80,016

Wow, that's impressive!

We are now at 1620 backers too - I wonder if that beats any previous Kickstarters...?

Want More TACOS.  

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Maybe if Gir gives them more stretch goals, they will give me more tacos . . .


85k  DIY Chicken Coop Plans eBook (198 pp.)

$280 away from the next stretch goal ...

JR is here at wheaton labs right now.  he says he has some video to add to the movie!

Gir The Bot wrote:Want More TACOS.  

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Maybe if Gir gives them more stretch goals, they will give me more tacos . . .


85k  DIY Chicken Coop Plans eBook (198 pp.)

Thanks for that, Gir!  It did the trick!


$80,000 Now reached!


Home Mushroom Cultivation Class Videos from Fungi Alley

This goes to all $100-and-up backers, along with all the other stretch goals, plus rewards at each tier!

paul wheaton wrote:JR is here at wheaton labs right now.  he says he has some video to add to the movie!

I really enjoyed meeting JR this past summer.  He is so knowledgeable.

I would love to see more video from the Low Tech Laboratory Movie.  

I wonder what projects JR will be working on next.

I wish I could come out to Wheaton Labs now!   It would be a great time to join the boot camp.

https://wheaton-labs.com/bootcamp/

Before we started editing on this project, when I looked through past kickstarters, 80,000 was my guess at what this kickstarter would make.

Now it's surpassed that and with a week still to go! Well done to Paul and everyone involved and here's hoping it finishes strong.

Michael Ot wrote:Before we started editing on this project, when I looked through past kickstarters, 80,000 was my guess at what this kickstarter would make.

Now it's surpassed that and with a week still to go! Well done to Paul and everyone involved and here's hoping it finishes strong.

Hi Michael!

It is pretty amazing!   I think it really shows how important it is to get theses skills out there.   People want to learn this stuff.    

So decided that if we get to this stretch goal we are definitely getting chickens! It's been on the cards for a while but having these plans will be the push needed  We are now at:

$81,169

Hi Jules!

That sounds great!  I love having chickens.  

I hope we reach this stretch goal!  
I would love to build something new for my chickens this summer.

If you are looking for more information about the spring terrace this is a great thread with pictures!

https://permies.com/wiki/177668/permaculture-projects/Sepp-Holzer-Style-Spring-Terrace#1396058

Here is Alan Booker explaining the things he is looking for in a potential spring terrace site.

I wanted to find out a bit more about how the rocket kins are made.  

There is more about harvesting wild clay here too:


https://permies.com/wiki/177379/permaculture-projects/Harvest-Clay-Pottery-yeah-rocket#1393607

Here the pottery is drying in the rocket oven:



Here are the finished pots!  so hot!

We are bringing back the penny poll!  Over the next 3 days, vote for your favorite PTJ artifact by increasing your Kickstarter backer amount by pennies. For a tutorial on how to change your backer amount, Click Here.

The best part is, the backer who puts in the most coin gets a 2-day admission to this year's PTJ!  Head on over and vote here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/low-tech?ref=12pv92

My vote is for roundwood timber framing.



I want to see more of it at the PTJ this year.

I voted in the Penny Poll for

To learn more about the penny poll: https://permies.com/wiki/212522/LTLM-KS-Penny-Poll

To support the Low Tech Laboratory Movie Kickstarter, or vote for your favorite,

click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/low-tech?ref=asqbjs

I voted for the Bodgering.  I really want to be able to make cool stuff out if sticks and logs!

My vote goes to the dry stack moon gate. I love me some rock work:)

$82,432

and 1,650 backers!

Any votes for cob yet?

Beau Davidson wrote:Any votes for cob yet?

Hi Beau!

Before I started going out to Wheaton Labs I thought cob was just sand, clay and straw.  

It can be that simple but they have refined this ancient building material to an art form.  

Through scouting around with an excavator and getting to know the land, they located deposits of different kinds of sand, many grades of clay and subsoil.  

They use sharp angular sand for some projects and smooth rounded sand for others.

They even add animal manures to the mix because that changes the properties of the finished product.  


Sometimes they ferment the whole mess in barrels until it bubbles.  


There is a lot for me to learn in this space and I am looking forward to lots of dirt time up there this summer!

Looking back at all the stretch goals and the knowing about the contents of the movie-to-be, I'm feeling very empowered! I can't wait for this Kickstarter to wrap up, so I can get my goods. Just thinking that I can learn to do all those things makes me feel less at the whim of uncontrollable forces and more in charge of my life. And counting up all the costs of each of the stretch goals, I feel I've optimized the use of my dollars! For $100, I will receive the movie AND $329 worth of extra value! Plus, we aren't even done with the KS campaign yet! If we hit more stretch goals between now and then....

Here's the detailed breakdown:


 $25 Greenwood Apprenticeship course
 $10 Saving the Life Keepers - sustainable beekeeping movie
 $20 Sustainable Architecture Movie
 $55 Tiny House Magazine - complete 2022 set
 $12 Anna Hess Book Bundle  
 $49 Mushroom Cultivation Class Recordings from Fungi Ally                            
$133 Golden Goat Herbals' Herbalism and Fermented Sodas Video Course + eBook
 $25  Regenerative Scales of Permanence PDC presentation by Alan Booker      

If you all help get the Kickstarter to the next stretch goal, $85K, the diy chicken coops ebook valued at $29.99 would bring the total to $358.99 extra value!

I just got to peak behind the curtain, and this movie just got a HUGE upgrade. Very excited to tell folks about it.

The kickstarter is doing so well!   It is great to see how important this is to people!

It was fun adjusting my pledge to vote in the penny poll!   it is so easy.   but it was only pennies...

I want to adjust my pledge by a bit more.    I was thinking $50.  


I want to show Paul how much I appreciate what he does for us.     anybody who adds to their pledge today..  or tomorrow.  come tell me here in this thread and I will give you a piece of pie!

I am getting materials together to build a new chicken house.  

I think this one looks really nice.  Light to move around and easy to get the eggs.



Here is the link to the thread if yo want to see the rest of them!

https://permies.com/wiki/212622/DIY-Chicken-Coops-John-White#1786151

What a come-back!!!  Only a few minutes left in the race!!



Flow-Forms!  Flow-Forms!  Flow-Forms!  You can do it!!!



The underdog of the century!!!




Add 19 Cents to your Backer Amount to Help Flow Forms win the penny poll

Hi Beau!  

Did the flow forms win??    I think it so fun to watch them work.   The sound they make is so awesome!

I love that you can add oxygen to your water.  


I love the stories about how Sep Holzer gets his water so oxygenated that he can see the difference in the fish.

The flow forms win!   So cool.    
 Graceful, beautiful water!

YAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!! I'll be honest - I stopped watching the race, when Flew Forms was a couple hundred votes below round wood & solar. I should have known better!!! W0000000t!!! ~happy dance~

I am very excited about flow forms.

Particularly because the odds are good that it will also cover natural, site-harvested cement sorts of processes.  

Hooray!

Beau Davidson wrote:I am very excited about flow forms.

Particularly because the odds are good that it will also cover natural, site-harvested cement sorts of processes.  

Hooray!

My PRECISE hope!!! I can definitely use the flow forms, in the capacity of better movement for my graywater system, but there are SO MANY, MANY more reasons I'm looking forward forward to the gick-free cement! We live on 29 acres of mostly woods, so both bodgering & roundwood would be great - IF we were younger, stronger, and had the equipment to take down the necessary trees, strip and smooth them. I'd absolutely love both of them, and the rest would be relatively easy, by comparison - but, we're just not physically able. Flowforms will be something I think that will be far more accessible to many more people, and at least here, on our homestead, it's something dearly needed.

Carla Burke wrote:

Beau Davidson wrote:I am very excited about flow forms.

Particularly because the odds are good that it will also cover natural, site-harvested cement sorts of processes.  

Hooray!

My PRECISE hope!!! I can definitely use the flow forms, in the capacity of better movement for my graywater system, but there are SO MANY, MANY more reasons I'm looking forward forward to the gick-free cement! We live on 29 acres of mostly woods, so both bodgering & roundwood would be great - IF we were younger, stronger, and had the equipment to take down the necessary trees, strip and smooth them. I'd absolutely love both of them, and the rest would be relatively easy, by comparison - but, we're just not physically able. Flowforms will be something I think that will be far more accessible to many more people, and at least here, on our homestead, it's something dearly needed.

I guess we better line it up for the PTJ.  Any flow form experienced folk currently kicking around permies?

Having a look around:

Here's a great list recipes from Jami for various "cements": https://permies.com/t/2309/CEMENTS
Here's the first mention I can find of flow forms on permies: https://permies.com/t/17846/Flowforms

We had a secret gathering of the permies' flying squirrel brigade yesterday and cooked up a batch of extra special secret sauce to smother onto the kickstarter parfait.  Watch your inboxes this afternoon.

Here's a sneak peak: