2024 Permaculture Technology Jamboree

There will be no Permaculture Technology Jamboree in 2025. 

We might do it again in 2026!

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What? Why?


Imagine a community and conversation with people who are bonkers about permaculture...


The Permaculture Technology Jamboree provides experiences for people new to permaculture technology:


  • Build homesteading skills...
  • Gain hands on experience with various technologies...
  • Move permaculture technology forward: Collaboration, experimentation and innovation in the field of permaculture!


Our Jamboree Format:


Attendees can wander throughout the Wheaton Labs to see all of the innovative permaculture projects, 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. 

60+ Permaculture Technology projects


Below are some example projects. 

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ROCKET HEAT:

  • Build a Rocket Oven for an Outdoor Kitchen
  • Build a Rocket that Generates Electricity

TEXTILES:

  • Make Window Quilts
  • Weave a Sun-Shade from Natural Fibers
  • Sew and Stuff a Straw Tick Mattress
  • Weaving a Rug or Blanket
  • & More!

FOOD PREP, PRESERVATION & PROPAGATION:

  • Preserve a Million Calories
  • Storing food for winter without electricity (6 ways)
  • Stock root cellar for 20 people for the year
  • Make Pottery from Clay Harvest on Site
  • Build a Hugel and Plant it
solar cooking, sawmill, natural building

TECH:

  • Add Permanent Solar to a Tiny House
  • Electric Tractor Hayride Tour
  • Heating Water with the Sun without Needing Winterizing
  • Install a Heliostat
  • Fire up the Solar Glass Recycler
  • & More!

NATURAL BUILDING:

  • Cob Sinks and Showers 
  • Mycelium Insulation
  • Build a Yurt
  • Slab Trees Freehand with a Chainsaw, and Build a Roundwood Deck
  • Natural Plasters & Paint
  • Sheep Wool Insulation
  • Felted Walls for Insulating a Space

BODGER:

  • Log Picnic Table & Bench Version 2.0
  • Build Log Bunk Beds
  • Build a Skiddable Bodger Shed
  • Build a Roundwood Staircase
  • Build a Three Log Bench
  • & More!

Bees

  • Build a Few Hives
  • Build a Swarm Trap
  • Extract Honey
  • Build a Log Beehive Shelter
  • Build a Log Style Beehive
  • & More!

HOMESTEADING:

  • Make Seed Balls
  • Plant a Living Fence
  • Foraging
  • Make Twine
  • Make wax Cloths / Lunch Kit / Jar cover
  • Create Public Art
  • & More!

SKIP ( SKills to Inherit Property):

  • A track dedicated to the "Skills to Inherit Property" program
  • Knock out a bunch of BBs with the help of PEP1 certified instructors
  • Basic Birdhouse
  • Wood Burned Signs
  • Make a Kindling Cracker
  • Tool Handle
  • & More!

DRYSTACK:

  • Drystack Moongate
  • Drystack Stairs
  • Drystack Wall to Protect a Fruit Tree
  • Install a Passive Garden Heater
  • Build a Holzer Root Cellar in a Day
  • Build a Natural Swimming Pool

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 6:00am - 
quiet time


Arrival: Day Zero

(the day before the beginning of the event) Register and

get settled in.


airport pickups:

10am to 5pm


arrival by car:

1pm to 5pm


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.

Paul Wheaton

Host/

Instructor

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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 wood ovens, massive earthworks, solar dehydrators and much more. 

better world book, paul wheaton ted talk, rocket stove and oven DVDs, permaculture cards, World Domination Gardening

James Juczak
Instructor

James is an author/lecturer on topics such as self-reliance, true sustainability, building off-grid energy systems and mortgage-free housing. He has had numerous articles published; his book "The High Art and Subtle Science of Scrounging, 2nd ed." is currently available and he is presently writing several other books. He has been dubbed "The King of Scrounge". Jim has taught energy, solar certification and electronics as an adjunct professor at three colleges. He has also worked as a Community Energy Educator in 10 northern New York counties. He also brought skills to Kandahar, Afghanistan where he worked as a civilian contractor with the US Army's 10th Mountain Brigade teaching appropriate technologies to the US and Afghan armies as well as the local civilian population. 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.

Sky Huddleston

Instructor

Sky Huddleston

Sky Huddleston of Liberty Rocket Stoves.

Opalyn Rose

Instructor

Opalyn Brenager

Opalyn Rose has been exploring a truly raw-material life while stewarding land and community in south-central Washington. Opalyn tends the sheep and the forest, transforming a fleece or a tree into not only yarn and lumber but clothing and snowmen too.  She brings her love of that transformation to the classroom sharing her skills while helping you develop yours.

opalyn collage of knitting, spinning weaving and other skills

Beau Davidson

Instructor

Beau is an audio engineer and music producer, and natural building contractor and consultant. Currently Beau resides on his multi-generational family farm in South Central Kansas, where he makes innovative, ecologically-contextualized structures, landscapes, and spaces out of the physical materials at hand. Currently they have an ecological research initiative to tend the borderland between philosophy and practice of resource-stewardship, creativity, and whole-living.

Samantha Lewis

Instructor

Samantha grew up weaving and doing needle work with her mother and grandmother. After high school she bought 60 acres of Washington forest land and built an off grid homestead. She attended Wilderness Awareness School and taught youth programs there for many years. She apprenticed with educator, author, artist Heidi Bohan, learning baskets and medicinal and traditional uses of plants. She likes to make her own clothes and grow her own food, living the permaculture dream on 5000 acres of Washington prairie land where she raises Finn sheep and other animals.

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 is collaborating to create the SKIP program.

Katie Holmdahl

Instructor

Katie is a teacher, builder and consultant of permaculture design, food forest gardening, community organizing, ecology and natural building skills in the United States and Europe. She teaches, designs and plants food forests for individuals, groups and municipalities, and has ample experience in sustainable building techniques and historical restorations.  
On the worksite, she's mindful that the project is moving along, and that everyone is actively engaged, having fun, and learning something useful to them. Whether giving a weekend workshop or helping to plan a bigger project and break it into manageable phases, she's got the breadth of knowledge and experience to help people identify and achieve their goals.

Michael Otten

Instructor

Michael Otten (Stoic the Dirt Hippy) is a traveling earth builder, sustainable developer and appropriate technologies enthusiast based out of New Mexico. Michael likes to share his work and educate through his Youtube channel "Building With Stoic".

Eliot Mason

Instructor

Eliot likes building things, operating heavy machinery and thinking about systems. On his spot in the PNW he’s building hugels, terraces and water catchements, planting sylvopasture and rebuilding soil with compost and a microscope.

JR Megee

Instructor

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JR has had a successful home maintenance service business for 15 years. He's currently working on a chemical-free remodel project, is a permaculture enthusiast, and a certified Garden Master.  JR is a graduate of Geoff Lawton's online permaculture design course, a frequent visitor to Wheaton Labs, a Bootcamp ringer, and a lifelong learner with a growing desire to teach.

And A special guest...

Kat Nelson

Guest Cook

Continually learning about the best, simplest and most cost effective way to feed her family, our experienced and popular cook for the event, Kat, loves making homemade natural yeasted bread, sprouts, fermented veggies, kombucha, kefir and - as soon as her goat herd starts upping their game and producing larger quantities of milk - cheese! Kat knows how to feed a hungry group with nourishing and tasty meals as she's a proud mom of 8, married to the love of her life, living a healthy homesteading lifestyle on a budget.  Also a lay midwife, Kat is a woman of many talents and her menus for previous events were delicious, hearty and a firm favorite with attendees.

Tickets

Note: 80% refund for cancellations up to two weeks before the event starts.

If you are not comfortable with being recorded, please do not attend.  

Tobacco/drug/vape free campus.

Permaculture Technology Jamboree (PTJ)

July 1 - 12, 2024

Paul will provide three simple meals a day at no charge, but food is not included with your ticket.  If you have special dietary needs/desires, you might want to bring your own food and use our rocket cook stoves, ovens, solar ovens and other cooking contraptions.

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