Listen Online 
Download 
Get all of the Podcasts in convenient, giant zip files 
Subscribe on iTunes
Summary
Building the PEP animal care badge curriculum is time consuming and difficult. Want to reward the people who do it properly but make it difficult to cheat. 135 BBs in animal care so far, and counting. Needs to be photograph-able, impress OTIS, and fit values.
Straw badge is doable for vegans. Exceeds vegan standards - symbiotic, caring relationship with animals, including wild animals and in an urban situation.
Sand badge - complete five of the 48 options. ~5 hours.
Straw badge - 35 points required. Can do up to 15 new points from the sand badge. Long list of BBs, 77, some are required. Most are 4 to six points each. Prove that something works. ~5 days.
Wood badge - 180 points required. ~5 weeks. some from previous lists.
Iron badge - 5 to 6 months of
experience. probably spread out over two or more years. one very rich
BB. Minimum number of species, harvest certain number of calories, and quality of life has to be high. Prove like a thesis. Gotta impress Otis...
Otises have come forward. Idea that maybe the first person that gets PEP2 certification may be able to inherit from an Otis. May even have to choose from around 20. This will help get the whole thing moving. Could be do-able in about three months, then could inherit a property. Each Otis might have different criteria and would choose the PEPer themselves from those best qualified. Wasn't time to get this program set up in time for Mike Oehler, and that became the foundation for this program. Program is still being defined. Have to stop to get stuff out now. Add more later. Sometimes new things are worked in. Multiple paths within, including vegan ones. Allows for rookies to get their feet wet.
Relevant Threads
PEP Badge: Animal Care - main thread
What is PEP and PEX?
All about SkIP, PEP, Badges, BBs and More!
PEP Forum
PEA forum
22 PEP badges
Native Bee Guide by Crown Bees
Support the Empire
Help support the empire and get all of the podcasts in a bundle
here in the digital market at permies.
To support production of these podcasts, make a donation
here at Paul's Patreon page.
This podcast was made possible thanks to:
Dr. Hugh Gill Kultur
Eivind W. Bjørkavåg
Suleiman, Karrie, and Sasquatch
Bill Crim
anonymous
Kerry JustTooLazy
Jocelyn Campbell
Wade Luger
Sasquatch
Kyle Neath
Chris Sugg
havokeachday
Bill Erickson
Dominic Crolius
Julia Winter, world's slowest mosaic artist
G Cooper
Penny McLoughlin
Ash Jackson
Mehron Kugler
Lisa Goodspeed
Mark
Pasquale DeAngelis
Sean Benedict
Greg Martin
Rita Bliden
Dana Martin
Candace Dahlk
Keith Kuhnsman
Eric Tolbert
Ruwan Nanayakkara
Polly Jayne Smyth
.png)
4
