Can we do it? Freaky Cheap Tickets to the 2025 Permaculture Technology Jamboree - this weekend only!

Jacqui Ehninger wrote:Thanks Samantha!
Unfortunately there does not appear to be a way to see what is available and what's already booked. Is that possible online or do I need to call or email you guys?
Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place for reservations...

Hi Jacqui,

For the availability, please email bunks (AT) richsoil.com!

2024 PTJ: Moving a huge rock inside the pumphouse to provide some thermal storage!

Many hands working together, that's what the PTJ is all about! :)



Picture posted by Beau, in the 2024 PTJ thread

Here is a look at the rocket hot tub!


We are heating over 500 gallons of water, quickly and cleanly.  


a few sticks, some craftsmanship and a lot of ingenuity

here is another contraption they used at this year's PTJ to make stuff: manual mortiser

I just saw this new video!  

It is so great to see so many fun permaculture technology jamboree faces!




Thanks everybody!

Sometimes a giant mallet is needed.



From the Roundwood pavillion project!

Mud squared :)

At Wheaton Labs, they make ordinary things fun.  
Here is Beau, having a blast moving around the property, on one of the electric bikes.



These bikes were given to Wheaton Labs by generous folks who want to help the project.
They help us be more efficient and get more done.
Thanks for giving us a quick, fun way to get around.

For Paul to put on the PTJ, we must sell at least 24 tickets to the two-week PTJ.

 

To try to accomplish this, tickets for the 2025 PTJ will be freaky cheap ($450/$350/$550*)
from Thursday, July 11th in the morning to Monday, July 15th, at noon MT.

A new development for the families who want to bring their children to the PTJ! We are implementing a new system so the kids can attend the event too!

*These freaky cheap tickets are non-refundable.

*Transferring freaky cheap tickets to a new ticket holder is possible, but a $150 processing fee will apply.

A quickie postcard from the 2024 PTJ that finished Friday.

Here is Elliot working on the humus well.



A humus well is creating a bit of a spring on dry land.

Mycelium insulation is non toxic. It is grown from the culture of edible mushrooms.  


It has a better R-value than standard insulation, it is extremely fire and water resistant and it is not affected by mice or moths.  
You can grow it to fit any shape.

This year at the permaculture technology jamboree, Beau created these boxes to grow lego type bricks of Mycelium insulation.  

Here is the unboxing:

12 tickets left!

6 more tickets sold for the third week.

3 more tickets sold for the first two weeks.

8 tickets left!

july 11

first two weeks: 1+1+2 = 4

third week: 2+4 = 6


july 12

first two weeks: 2


july 13

first two weeks: 1+1 = 2

third week: 1+1 = 2


july 14

first two weeks:  2+1+1+1+2+1 = 8

third week: 1+5+1 = 7


Total sold so far

first two weeks: 16

third week: 15

People have been asking, so let me be clear:

if we sell 24 tickets (or more), we will have the PTJ and the ticket price will be much higher.  About double to start, ending about four or five times higher.

If we sell 23 tickets (or fewer), then the event is cancelled and all 23 tickets will be refunded.

A big part of the discount is: we don't have the details sorted out, the web page set up, etc.  But some instructors need to know how many people will be at the event before they can commit to the event.  So if people are willing to take risks, there are substantial discounts!

paul wheaton wrote:People have been asking, so let me be clear:

if we sell 24 tickets (or more), we will have the PTJ and the ticket price will be much higher.  About double to start, ending about four or five times higher.

If we sell 23 tickets (or fewer), then the event is cancelled and all 23 tickets will be refunded.

Must sell at least 24 tickets to the first 2-week part of the 2025 PTJ.

The third week is an experimental week.  Kat will manage the whole thing.  Kat has a lot of ideas that smell like "homeschool co-op."  And she is emphatic that she has not yet hammered out all the details.  

My guess, so far, is that the third week will end up a bit like this:

   20 adults that brought 20 kids
           during build times, 6 adults will be with the herd of kids and 14 will be doing adult ptj stuff
           each adult does gets signed up for a certain number of shifts
   15 adults that brought zero kids

So this is a very experimental.  It is 100% reasonable for people to say "I need to know the exact details before I fork over money" and my response is "then do NOT fork over money - you MUST wait until the program has been fleshed out more."  And besides, there is a possibility that there be zero event anyway - so no worries.

I have heard from some parents that they are IN and they are totally cool with any format.  So if we get enough of those people, then we will have an event.

Kat has asked me how many tickets do we need to sell to do this PTJ-with-kids-thing and I said "24".  

At the moment, we need to sell 8 more tickets in the next six hours or we will not have a PTJ nest year. I wish that we sold 20 more tickets in the next six hours.

    six hours left!

I really hope we move these tickets.  

This is the only event of its kind, anywhere in all the world.  So many attendees this year said there was just nothing like it anywhere else.  At least one said she felt like she was "home."

Do you think people realize that the event will be canceled if we don't sell out the blitz tickets?

Blue sky and bright smiling faces!



The permaculture technology jamboree is fun and learning.  
If you want to learn the skills to build the life of your dreams, come play with us!

    4 hours left!

6 tickets left!

paul wheaton wrote:Total sold so far

first two weeks: 16

third week: 15

first two weeks is now bumped up to 18.

5 tickets left!

    3 hours left!

paul wheaton wrote:

paul wheaton wrote:Total sold so far

first two weeks: 16

third week: 15

first two weeks is now bumped up to 18.

first two weeks is now bumped up to 19.

Beau M. Davidson wrote:Do you think people realize that the event will be canceled if we don't sell out the blitz tickets?

Mebbe.  Dunno.

I tried to be clear.  

I assumed that with the importance of the event combined with the tickets being so cheap, that we would hit 24 in a few hours.  Now it has been a few days with hours to go and we still have not hit 24.  Wacky.

Just ordered a ticket. Busy time of year, feels like this sprung up so fast, I'm just now emailing out an announcement to my "networks".

It doesn't even look like Mike H had a chance to email out notice to our local Homesteader group like he usually does with big WL events, maybe see if he has a second between SKIP tasks to shoot something out, it is a BCC list or I'd do it...

I bought a ticket for my wife and I last night, but it was tricky moving around $900 on short notice/after driving home from this year’s PTJ… and I’m a bona fide corporate whore.

I empathize with folks who aren’t afraid of the lack of detail, yet still haven’t been able to make the finances work.  

    2 hours left!

Total sold so far

first two weeks: 19

third week: 15

It does not look good for either event.  Less than two hours to go.

Yay!   So close!

I had so much fun this year at the permaculture technology jamboree!  


To me, it is inspiring to meet all these wonderful people who are really doing it!  Living their dreams, building stuff with their hands and creating the world that they want to see.  

I would like to help this event grow bigger every year!

There are plans in the works to make next year's permaculture technology jamboree even more dynamic.

Selling tickets up front makes it possible to hire the best instructors and staff.   We can start planning next year's projects and getting materials on site.  

Planning ahead is the only way this kind of event can be put together.


It is your help and faith that makes this all possible!

    90 minutes left!

    60 minutes left!

4 tickets left!

1 more for each!

Total sold so far

first two weeks: 20

third week: 16