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Imagine That Honey!

Location: 283 Matthews Road Swanzey, NH 03446

Description: Keeping bees and offering local beekeeping instruction has been Jodi's passion for more than 15 years. Her love of bees was sparked at an early age, and she was given the opportunity to explore this great adventure while working at Stonewall Farm in Keene, NH.

Contact: http://wwww.imaginethathoney.com, 603 381-1717

Category: beekeeping

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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

Ploughshare Institute for Sustainable Culture

Location: 608 Dry Creek Rd. ยท Waco, TX 76705

Description: Our goal is to transmit a vision for a cohesive, integrated agrarian way of life, but one that aims toward bringing forth complete individuals and whole families in a supportive and tangible context, a context respectful of the natural environment. We are dedicated to recapturing and perpetuating a sense of intentional community which includes rediscovering and perpetuating the knowledge and skills that can provide for essential human needs (both socially and spiritually as well as materially) on a sustainable basis.

Contact: http://www.SustainLife.Org, info@sustainlife.org, (254) 754-9600

Category: Gardening, Beekeeping, Poultry, Dairy Cows, Dairy Goats, Horse, Organic, Gardening, Orchards, Bread/Pizza, Cheese making, Soap making, Basket making, Fiber arts, carpentry, Blacksmithing, Pottery, Quilting

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

Haute Goat

Location: 1166 5th Line Port Hope, Ontario L0A 1J0

Description: Haute Goat Farm is a breathtaking 200 acre farm located just outside historic Port Hope, Ontario where you can discover the magic of our Nigerian Dwarf goats, alpacas, chickens and horses and take a stroll through the shiitake forest! Fun for the whole family! Take some time to stroll the property and breathe the fresh country air. Shop for handmade premium goat milk goodies Goat Butter Caramel Corn and Decadent Goat Buttercrunch to luxurious skin care products such as Raw Goat Milk soap bars, Facial Milk Cleanser, Lip Balms and more in our farm gate store.

Contact: https://hautegoat.com/, debbie@hautegoat.com, 416 402-8144

Category: animal husbandry, dairy animals, fiber animals, soap making,

Old School Creamery

Location: 24 School St Harrison, ME 04040

Description: A small goat farm that provides lessons in making cold process goat milk soap and mozzarella

Contact: http://www.oldschoolcreamery.com/classes.html, oldschoolcreamery%40gmail.com, 207-653-6546

Category: Soap making, Cheese making

Adirondack Folk School

Location: P. O. Box 2 51 Main Street Lake Luzerne, NY 12846

Description: Adirondack Folk School (AFS) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, unique for its dedication to teaching the arts, crafts, and cultural heritage of the Adirondack region. Made up of local artisans, crafts people, and volunteers, we offer non-competitive education focusing on the student.

Contact: http://www.adirondackfolkschool.org/, info@adirondackfolkschool.org, 518-696-2400

Category: blacksmithing, basket making, gardening, carpentry, pottery, cooking, kids, fiber crafts, leather, jewelry, timber framing, soap making, essential oils, food preservation, cheese making, trades, masonry,



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