The Permaculture Boot Camp is an experiential learning environment where people develop the skills needed to fully practice the ethics and systems of permaculture. It is an intensive, hands-on program developed by permaculture advocate Paul Wheaton of Missoula, Montana.
Introduction[edit | edit source]
In the Permaculture Bootcamp, the individuals participating (colloquially called "boots,") are guided in growing gardens, food forests and a rich array of food systems all to feed those in the bootcamp. They will learn natural building techniques that will house other 'boots.' An entire collection of permaculture and homesteading experiences are harnessed that will build a community based on permacuture principles.
Specific skills[edit | edit source]
Growing food by organic means: Using techniques that replace irrigation with permaculture.
- hugelkultur
- mulching
- polyculture
- Lots of taprooted species started from seed (instead of transplanting)
- building rich soil
- Raising humidity for more morning dew
- terraces, berms, TEFA
- paddock shift systems
- diversity and edge
- strategic shade
- food forests and perennial systems
- roundwood timber framing
- roundwood joinery
- wofati
- cob, straw bale, slip straw
- junkpole fence
- willow feeder
- natural plasters
- earthen floors
- green woodworking
- conventional carpentry
- Earthworks, ponds, water management
- rocket mass heaters
- solar: PV, experience using 12v vs. inverter systems
- solar: food dehydrator, cookers
- haybox cooker
- Rocket stoves, rocket cooktops, rocket griddles, rocket ovens, rocket kiln and slow cooker
Food preservation:
- fermenting
- canning
External Links[edit | edit source]
- Permaculture Bootcamp Official Page
- Permaculture Bootcamp at permies.com
- Wheaton Labs forums at permies.com (where current participants gather online to share experiences)
- Boots using a solar-powered sawmill at Wheaton Labs
- Tour of the 'love shack' at Wheaton Labs by a boot (including a look at the rocket mass heater and cob hat)
- Meet the 'boot' who earned an acre of land in the bootcamp!
