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Once again this spring we will be holding a free BB20 SKIP event.


April 24-28, 2023
SKIP: Skills to Inherit Property
Skills to Inherit Property homesteading and permaculture skills event


If you don't have BB20 yet, you are welcome to join us for a thousand bucks.  Just click here to part with your money and we'll get started on getting your particulars sorted out.

About SKIP:

SKIP is a curriculum of experiences you can complete to prove you can do permaculture.  While a PDC  teaches you how to do permaculture design and analysis, SKIP is hands-on.  You are making things.

This is a chance for anyone with a BB20 badge in the PEP Program to come out to Wheaton Labs for free.  

Feel of the Event:

In this program, you will gain and demonstrate new skills.  It isn't about training, classroom time or lengthy discussion.  It's about pounding out actual projects.  This event will be heavily focused on giving attendees the ability to complete badges.  You work at your own pace and under your own direction on the BBs of your choice.  Or just watch the clouds go by.  There aren't instructors and it's pretty free-form but Paul asks us to all complete the harvesting firewood BB.  



Since it's a free event, we aren't all guaranteed to have access to everything we'd want.  For instance the excavator may or may not be available.  Or we might not all be able to play with full willow candy cans.

Since Paul loves you so much, boot-style food is also included.  That's a wide variety of vegetarian staples but we have to cook it ourselves and clean up after ourselves.  Tent sites are free but bunks would need to be paid for.

If you want to attend, fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/SdMy1841QGUy5ZLT8

So if you've been waiting for a time to get to WL for free, this is it, but first get your 20 BBs.  

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Do you have more than 20 BBs? Do you want to visit Wheaton Labs, for free?

Fill out our BB20 Event Questionnaire: https://forms.gle/SdMy1841QGUy5ZLT8
 
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This sounds lovely! I would like to attend! I'm signing up for the PDC in June so this would be a good way to get orientation in advance. I posted on the PDC thread a question about bringing my rabbits, this is a much shorter event so would be easier to find a pet sitter for. But would it be possible to do a couple "skid building" BB's during this event that would be lovely accommodations for them in June?
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They are well trained to help anyone getting the feed kitchen scraps BB
They are well trained to help anyone getting the feed kitchen scraps BB
 
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I’m excited to be heading back to WL this spring!
 
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For those interested in coming to this FREE event, but don't have any BBs done, here's a list of Easiset BBs to Accomplish!
 
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Double checking this is officially "starting" at 8 am Monday the 24.
 
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Aurora House wrote:Double checking this is officially "starting" at 8 am Monday the 24.


I expect we will start by attending the boot camp meeting Monday morning at 8 am.
This is a less formal event that the summer events and we are mostly on our own with some boot support and access to the tools and trees here at WL.
My understanding is that many are arriving on Sunday to settle in.
 
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I’ve arrived at WL and I’d like to invite all the attendees to share their hopes for which BBs or badges you’d like to focus on.

Are you interested in felling trees, building rock jacks or junk pole fence, or a specific badge?

We are tasked with completing the woodland care split and stack dead standing wood as firewood to help offset meals and firewood we might use.

 
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Felling trees with chainsaw is of interest to me. But the most important because I don't know where else to do them are rocket cooking and hugle mounds. Also solar cooking since I'm from greater Seattle so Sun is at a premium.
 
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Aurora House wrote:Felling trees with chainsaw is of interest to me. But the most important because I don't know where else to do them are rocket cooking and hugle mounds. Also solar cooking since I'm from greater Seattle so Sun is at a premium.


Thanks for sharing.
Felling is a great project and you can peel the live trees and make firewood out of the dead trees.

It is pretty easy this time of year to do all the rockety BBs.

Rex (the excavator) is down for repairs so we’ll have to wait and see.
 
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Ok Google says I'm 5 1/2 hrs away let's see if they are right
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Huckleberry scones - 6-8 T butter 3 T sweet 1 egg 1/2 t salt 2 t bake POWDER 1/2 t bake SODA. 400F 15-20 m
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I'm curious; was it just you two, Opalyn and Aurora?
 
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Jeremy VanGelder wrote:I'm curious; was it just you two, Opalyn and Aurora?

There were four participants.
 
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