Directory of Hands-On Learning
Collection of local and small-town workshops
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Sigma 3 Survival School
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Description: Sigma 3 Survival is an extremely unique entity in the survival community. We are setup to offer a broader array of training than any other survival school in the country. Sigma does not differentiate between the different skills sets involved in the survival philosophy. Because just as bushcraft is pivotal for your survival in the wilderness, tactical and defense related skills are important for your urban and combat related survival. All in all, survival is the study and practice of keeping your ASS alive no matter what is happening around you!
Contact: https://www.survivalschool.us/, 401-632-1670
Category: survival, trapping, first aid, plant ID, backpacking, foraging,
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Modern Self-Reliance
Location: Burlington, MA
Description: We teach homesteading and preparedness skills through online tutorials.
Contact: http://www.modernself-reliance.com, msr@modernself-reliance.com,
Category: Food preservation, soap making, cheese making, survival,gardening
Owl Ridge Homestead - Homesteader's club of CT
Location: 06010
Description: The Homesteading Club brings together a community of like-minded people who are living, or aspire to live, a more self sufficient lifestyle. The club fosters a support system where ideas, projects and experience can be shared in casual conversation. The club is a steady growing group of Homesteader's that have a wide range of skills and experience that we share with each other. We run workshops, talks, and organize tours of farms, homesteads, breweries, and wild edible forages. We have lots of plans for the upcoming fall and winter!
Contact: https://www.facebook.com/groups/238004919636636/, 860-508-0552
Category: beekeeping, animal husbandry, foraging, gardening, wine/beer/cider, fiber arts, off the grid, survival , permaculture, land surveying
The Farm School
Location: 488 Moore Hill Road, Athol, MA, 01331
Description: A highly immersive and exclusive class to learn agricultural techniques for aspiring farmers, educators and community leaders
Contact: http://farmschool.org/learntofarm/, admissions@farmschool.org,
Category: forestry, animal husbandry, carpentry, homesteading, cooking, organic, sustainable agriculture
Beginning Farmers
Location: NA
Description: An online reference for all types of farming
Contact: http://www.beginningfarmers.org/,
Category: Homesteading, Urban Farming, animal husbandry, sustainable Agriculture
Stockbridge School of Agricutlure. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Location: 208 Paige Laboratory, 161 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA, 01003
Description: Online certificate program for the small farming demographic
Contact: https://stockbridge.cns.umass.edu/SFF-Certificate, abthorpe@umass.edu, 413-545-2222
Category: farming, Homesteading, Pest Control, Organic, Gardening Beekeeping, Animal husbandry, Poultry, soil management
Organic Growers School
Location: PO Box 17804 Asheville, NC 28816
Description: A series of in person workshops and a collection of online tips geared towards inspiring farmers.
Contact: http://organicgrowersschool.org/, outreach@organicgrowersschool.org, 828-214-7833
Category: Homesteading, Organic, Gardening , Farming,
Koviashuvik Local Living School
Location: 71 lake Drive, Temple, Maine
Description: Founded in 2008, Koviashuvik is a working homestead and school of simple living. We offer the Family Sustainability Stay, programs for schools, The Simple Life Internship, and weekend craft classes. Through these venues we teach skills that inspire a lifeway of connection, resilience, and gratitude. Woodwork, wild gathering, tool sharpening, homestead agriculture, food preservation, basketry, fire from friction, leatherwork, acorn processing, rocket stove construction, cooking over fire, humanure composting…. These skills, from all different traditions and times, empower us to choose a positive relationship with mother earth.
Contact: http://koviashuvik.com/, info@koviashuvik.com, 207-778-0318
Category: Carpentry,foraging, homesteading, sustainable agriculture, gardening, food preservation, basketry, basket making, camping, leather,homebuilding, cooking , composting
Ten Apple Farm - Living with Goats
Location: 241 Yarmouth Road Gray, Maine 04039
Description: We try to do several workshops in basic homesteading skills each season, to share what we have learned, or are in the process of learning. Workshops include Basic Home Cheesemaking, Baking, Poultry Slaughter & Processing, and Preserving & Canning. In some cases, we lead the workshops ourselves, in other cases we may invite fellow homesteaders or skilled members of the greater food, farming and homesteading community to be a guest workshop leader.
Contact: http://www.livingwithgoats.com, info@tenapplefarm.com , 207.657.7880
Category: homesteading, Cheese making,cooking, Poultry, butchering, food Preservation, farming , animal husbandry, permaculture
Cluck!
Location: 399 Broadway, Providence Rhode Island 02909
Description: cluck! is a small, woman-owned business founded in 2013 to serve urban agriculturalists and gardeners in and around Providence, Rhode Island. cluck!'s goods and services focus on small-scale food production, backyard small animal husbandry (especially chickens and bees) and homesteading-based self-reliance. We have the tools, supplies, ideas and education you need to grow, raise and preserve your own food while helping to keep your community healthy and beautiful. We've also got unusual, thoughtful gifts for all ages. We run year-round classes, workshops, readings, and family-friendly programs and maintain a teaching garden of edibles and habitat-supporting native plants. We also keep bees and raise chickens.
Contact: http://cluckri.com/, drake@cluckri.com, (401) 274 1160
Category: poultry, gardening, urban farming
Glass Rooster Cannery
Location: 1673 South State Route 605 Sunbury, Ohio 43074
Description: Join us in the Cannery kitchen to learn modern homesteading practices, including home preserving, soap making, cooking with herbs, artisan bread making and more! Bring your friends for a private cooking class or team building event. Wander through our restored barns full of Ohio-made art and antiques. Walk around the gardens while learning about sustainable agriculture practices or relax by the glass bottle mosaic wall and enjoy the pond and permaculture. Conveniently located twenty minutes north of Columbus.
Contact: http://glassroostercannery.com/, info@GlassRoosterCannery.com, 614-499-2958
Category: homesteading, food preservation, bread/pizza, cooking, sustainable agriculture, permaculture,soap making
Self Reliant School
Location:
Description: An online blog for homesteading.
Contact: https://selfreliantschool.com/, Contact though the blog,
Category: Bread/Pizza, Gardening, Wine, Beer, Cider, Cooking, Soil Management, Food Preservation, Homesteading,
Jack Mountain Bushcraft School
Location: PO Box 77 Ashland, ME 04732
Description: Our immersion programs integrate expedition leadership, bushcraft, primitive living skills, field ecology (edible and medicinal plants, mammals and their tracks, weather, the night sky, etc.), expedition canoeing and snowshoeing, natural crafting, off-grid homesteading, fly fishing, building your own gear (canoe paddles, pack baskets, bows, crooked knives, etc.) and living a simple, outdoor life.
Contact: http://jackmtn.com/, jmbushcraft@gmail.com, 207-518-8804
Category: plant ID, off the grid, fishing, homesteading, survival, camping,
Cherry Grove Farm
Location: 3200 Lawrenceville Rd, Lawrence Township, NJ 08648
Description: Cherry Grove Farm is family owned and hosts a series of dinners, events, parades and even offers classes in homesteading and cheese making
Contact: http://www.cherrygrovefarm.com/, 609-895-1502
Category: Homesteading, Cheese making
The Farm Cooking School
Location: 67 Pleasant Valley Rd, Titusville NJ 08560
Description: A space where cooks of all levels can come together to learn about and enjoy great food and real community
Contact: http://thefarmcookingschool.com/, thefarmcookingschool@gmail.com, 646-263-0605, 516-840-4891
Category: Bread / Pizza, Cooking, Cheese Making, Wine / Beer, Butchering, Homesteading,
Woodcrest Farm School
Location: 5604 Dairyland Rd Hillsborough, NC 27278
Description: A family farm that finds great joy in sharing the heritage of the land, breeds and skills unique to the Orange Grove area
Contact: http://www.woodcrestfarmnc.com/, info@woodcrestfarmnc.com, 919-933-5105
Category: Cheese making, Blacksmithing, Crochet / Knitting, Quilting, Dairy Animals, Homesteading
Magoo Farmstead
Location: Stoughton, MA
Description: Thanks for visiting! We're Karl and Jen, a city man turned hiker and a country woman fast becoming a chicken fanatic. Join us on our backyard farm, as we share our love and learning about: organic gardening, DIY homesteading, crafts, recipes, beekeeping, vermiculture, and, of course, CHICKENS!
Contact: http://www.magoofarmstead.com/, magoofarmstead@gmail.com, 781-436-0043
Category: beekeeping, composting, poultry,
Stonewall Farm
Location: 242 Chesterfield Rd Keene, NH 03431
Description: Stonewall Farm offers a variety of educational programs for people of all ages. From farmer workshops and homesteading classes to summer camps to environmental education programs, we have just the perfect opportunity waiting for you.
Contact: https://stonewallfarm.org/, jdoyle@stonewallfarm.org, 603-357-7278
Category: kids, poultry, basket making, bee keeping, mushrooms,
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