permaculture bootcamp - gardening gardeners; grow the food you eat and build your own home

Fun-zies items

-build a raised bed

-plant a fruit tree

-prune a fruit tree or vine

-press fruit

-growbag potatoes

To extend the idea of "Gardening gardeners" - an expression that's been around on permies since at least 2016 - I think we also need to pay attention to cooking up a big batch of cooks.

Am I right to suspect that a lot of home-grown food gets wasted composted because it all comes ripe at once? Or like on my farm where I really can't store summer apples, so they get fed to the geese, chickens and ducks - better than compost as they preprocess the apples and spread the goodness all over our field.

The weather is changing rapidly now that it's early October, but I've got a lot of green tomatoes and not sure I've got the time or energy to make green tomato mincemeat. Having a team to process food together would make it much easier and much more social!

I'm curious if the bootcamp is active in winter? My partner and I are super interested and would love to participate, especially in natural building projects.

Also curious if there's a combination set up for more private housing besides the bunk house, but we'd still fully participate in all things boot.

michael feltheim wrote:I'm curious if the bootcamp is active in winter? My partner and I are super interested and would love to participate, especially in natural building projects.

Also curious if there's a combination set up for more private housing besides the bunk house, but we'd still fully participate in all things boot.

Yup, we run all winter.  Although this year if you wanna be here in the winter, you gotta start november 2 or december 7.  Or maybe rent a cabin.

Stephen is pretty good at getting people set up with a cabin if they want one.  Most folks head for the red cabin.  https://permies.com/wiki/55002/Red-Cabin

It has our newest rocket mass heater



Lots to do in winter  https://permies.com/t/149839/bootcamp-winter#1171986











we finished the berm shed in winter