2020 Permaculture Technology Jamboree: June 29th-July 10th, Wheaton Labs

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Permaculture Technology Jamboree
(Previously known as the Appropriate Technology Course)
June 29th - July 10th, 2020



Early Bird Prices end March 15th!!!

This event has multiple purposes:

collaboration, experimentation and innovation to move permaculture technology forward

experiences for people new to permaculture technology

building homesteading skills

Our Jamboree Format:
Attendees can wander among all TEN of the tracks and participate or observe as much or as little as they like. The instructors will see a project to completion either with or without help.

Ten Tracks of Permaculture Technology



TRACK ONE – SOLAR GLASS RECYCLING:

optimize the fresnel lens glass melter

melt more glass

melt glass faster

design to reduce costs

TRACK TWO – WOFATI GREENHOUSE AND GREYWATER SYSTEM:

a greenhouse that requires zero heat in the winter

greywater system that can function year round

a passive solar garden heater

wofati construction

TRACK THREE – ROCKET SAUNA:

roundwood timber framing techniques

rocket heater

skiddable foundation

dry wall stack walls, earhworks, rocket stoves

TRACK FOUR – EARTH AND FIRE:

​spring terrace: shape dry land to be able to extract 400 gallons of water per day

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passive garden heater: a technique to help grow citrus, outdoors, in Montana

​dry stack moon gate: correctly stacking rock to have a wall with a 2-foot round hole

​rocket forge: a metalworking forge that does not require coal, propane or electricity

TRACK FIVE –  WOOD AND COB:

​roundwood timber framing pavilion

​two styles of innovative deer/chicken fencing with a per foot price that is less than 10% of normal

add a night mode (rocket mass heater) to the giant solar food dehydrator

build a cob sink from clay and sand on-site. It will be formed and then made waterproof with natural material

​trombe wall. Move air 24 hours a day without electricity

TRACK SIX – ZAPPITY ZAP:

​create an electric tractor hayride tour

​install a heliostat: A sun tracking mirror to add light and heat to a house

​add permanent solar power to a tiny house

​repair cafe

​better crockpot: cook triple the food with less than 10% of the energy of a standard crockpot

​window quilts and harvesting winter window condensation

TRACK SEVEN – SKIP: Skills to Inherit Property
Part of our formal SKIP/PEP1 Program

woodburning a sign

carve tool handles

make fireplace tools

sharpen tools

make roundwood mallets

make a three-log bench

make adobe bricks

build a dry-stack retaining wall

cut down trees for use in log structures and/or firewood

make a rock jack to support a fence without digging post holes

sealing a pond without a liner

TRACK EIGHT – HOMESTEADING:

make a bird house, insect hotel, snake and toad habitat

make a hugelkulture garden

hot water bath canning

fermenting

pickling

foraging

harvest and eat wild edibes

harvest and preserve natural medicine: comfrey poultice, dried mullein leaves, and more!

make public art and branding a location

textiles: sewing, darning, crochet, basket weaving, making twine

using rocket stoves, rocket ovens, and rocket water ovens

everyone who wants to can drive the excavator

TRACK NINE –BOOTCAMP:

Some people have attended our events and opted to join our ongoing permaculture bootcamp for half a day for whatever they are working on for that day.

solar cooking, sawmill, natural building

TRACK TEN– SPONTANEOUS INNOVATION:

With all of the other innovation, combined with a mountain of tools and materials, several attendees and instructors get ideas for projects that we didn't think of before the event started. Track 10 is for working on projects that were thought of during the event!

Daily Schedule

7:00am – breakfast
8:00am – summary of the day
8:30am – session 1
10:00am – session 2
noon – lunch
1:00pm – session 3
3:00pm – session 4
5:00pm – cleanup
6:00pm – dinner
7:00pm – evening presentations
9:30pm to 6:30am – quiet time

For the detailed schedule, click HERE!

Instructors


Chris McClellan -- Instructor:
Uncle Mud (aka Chris McClellan) raises free-range, organic children in the wilds of northeast Ohio. Between building things out of mud and junk he writes for Mother Earth News Magazine and teaches simple DIY skills at workshops and fairs.

James S Juczac --Instructor:
James is an author and lecturer on topics such as self-reliance, true sustainability, building off-grid energy systems and mortgage-free housing. He has been dubbed "The King of Scrounge." Jim lives with his wife, Krista, in their round, cordwood and papercrete home on the property where they have established an off-grid intentional community. He is an EMT and an adjunct professor at SUNY Jefferson where he teaches the NABCEP Solar Installers course.


Reisha Beck -- Instructor
Reisha Beck is a mother, medicinal herb farmer and wildcrafter. She runs Wayside Botanicals, a small-scale permaculture based medicinal herb farm in Ferndale, WA. She has a back ground in organic farming, permaculture design, pacific northwest ethnobotany and western herbalism. She teaches at Wildroot Botanicals herb school in Alger, WA and First Light Farm and Learning Center in Carnation, WA.


Paul Wheaton -- Host/Instructor
Paul Wheaton, The Duke of Permaculture, is an author, producer, and certified advanced master gardener. He has created hundreds of youtube videos, hundreds of podcasts, multiple DVDs, and written dozens of articles and a book. As the lead mad scientist at Wheaton Labs, he's conducted experiments resulting in rocket stoves and ovens, massive earthworks, solar dehydrators and much more.


Mike Haasl --Instructor
Mike Haasl is a mechanical engineer, woodworker, blacksmith, and permaculture homesteader in northern Wisconsin.  He constructed a sweet greenhouse, builds with pallets and upcycled material, and experiments with compost heat.  He is developing a demonstration site for permaculture homesteading, and collaborating to create the SKIP program.


Erik Pehoviack -- Instructor
Erik is the co-owner of PermaRecycling, specializing in repurposing vintage cars and home rehabilitation in western Nebraska. He is a handyman, auto recycler, mechanic, welder, mason, carpenter, and teacher of all things hands on. Major hobbies geared toward partial independence are renewable energy and food based perennial horticulture systems


Fred Tyler -- Instructor
Fred has led the Bootcamp at Wheaton Labs for three years now. He's directed and taught skills ranging from organic gardening to woodworking to natural building.

Dre Oeschger -- Instructor
Dre runs a healthy side hustle aptly named Strong Wife Sourdough.  She also loves to crochet and occasionally sells custom crochet items via another side hustle, Dre's Crochet.  She is a mother of three and loves unschooling her boys.  She has also lent her experience and knowledge in the implementation of Acton of the Rubies, an alternative learning studio in Elko, Nevada that applies many of the unschooling and Montessori principles.

Alan Booker -- Instructor
Alan Booker is the founder and executive director of the Institute of Integrated Regenerative Design, which trains professional design practitioners to create systems that are ecosystemic, biocompatible, and regenerative. With over 30 years experience in engineering and 20 years in sustainable design, Alan is the author of multiple books. In addition to teaching PDCs, he also provides consulting and workshops on earthworks, soil remediation, composting, forest gardening, holistic management of pastureland, keyline design, aquaculture and aquaponics, off-grid energy systems, and natural building systems.


Josiah Kobernik -- Instructor
Josiah cobbled together a diverse background in commercial agriculture, horticulture, market gardening, raising livestock, homesteading, and other general build/fix skills before landing at Wheaton Labs in 2019. Since moving to the labs, he has taken to working with roundwood timber framing, earthen plasters, videography, rocket contraptions, and any other inventions he can get his hands on


Ron Bigelow -- Instructor
Ron, also known as the Permaculture Pickle, is the owner of The Farm on 277th, and organic, permaculture farm which grows 277 different varieties of fruits, vegetables and herbs. He currently is one of the leaders of Bootcamp at Wheaton Labs.


Jennifer Richardson --Instructor
Jennifer Richardson is a former cattle rancher and current resident of Wheaton Labs. She is participating in the boot camp and living in Allerton Abbey, the first wofati, in order to test the thermal inertia of the structure.

Abe Coley -- Instructor
Abe Coley is a 1,123rd generation fence builder living in Missoula, MT. His daddy had him peeling logs when he was three years old, and he's built just about every kind of fence ever since - from cast iron and wire to dry stacked stone to wattles, hurdles, and stick fences. If the saying is true that good fences make good neighbors, then that pretty much makes Abe Coley, Mr. Rogers.


Tickets

Work Trades for Permaculture Technology Jamboree, PDC, and SKIP
Work a 7 weeks in Bootcamp for a ticket to the PTJ!

Super Early Bird Tickets can be purchased HERE!

Early Bird Prices end March 15th!!!