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Class dates and times are Sundays, 1-3:30 p.m. on May 15, June 12, July 17,
August 21, September 11 and October 9.
Class fee for the six months is $175. Print registration form.
Do you want to raise your own food, and travel the path of self sufficiency and living close to the land? Have you always had an independent streak and found pleasure and satisfaction in creating a life that is closely connected to the land, the seasons and your food? Whether you seek to create a urban or country homestead, this class will give you some vital hands on skills on creating and maintaining a homestead and its many facets.

This class will be highly informal and interactive, with lots of hands on learning. In this course you will learn these skills and many more: gardening and producing your own food, season extension through hoop houses and greenhouses, bread making, food preservation methods including drying, canning (both water bath and pressure), fermentation, dairy skills including yogurt making, cheese making, and how to milk and care for a dairy animal (cows and goats), keeping other homestead animals such as ducks, chickens, and pigs, wild food gathering, solar cooking, heating with wood, bees, maple syrup production, fencing, home herbals, and soap making.

You will also receive personal attention on conceptualizing your own homestead and what you want that to entail. You will receive support and the skills to make the creation of your homestead a reality and you will join a support system with other class participants and share life experiences and tips. This is a once a month class, held on Sundays, from 1-3:30 p.m. This class is for beginner students to homesteading.

Sundays, 1-3:30 p.m. on May 22, June 19, July 24, August 28, September 18, and Oct 16
Class fee for the six months is $175. Print registration form.

This is a once a month class, held on Sundays from 1-3:30 p.m. The class is for beginner students to herbalism, as well as returning students who want hands on experience crafting medicines from the green world around us. Meeting once a month throughout the growing season allows us as a group to witness the seasonal changes the herbs embody. It allows students to learn to identify wild plants in all their growing stages and developments and to really tune into the waxing and waning medicinal energy of each plant and its parts.

The class is highly informal and interactive, and each time we meet we will visit wild and cultivated herbs on the farm and learn their many uses and blessings for the home herbal medicine chest. As a group, we will talk, learn, laugh, and gather herbs. We will share our collective life experience, ask questions, and celebrate connections.

We will learn how and which wild herbs to use for food as well as medicine, in order to bring deeper nourishment into our daily diets. You will learn how to craft herbal medicines such as infusions, teas, tinctures, vinegars, salves, lotions and lip balms. You will learn and create with the herbs as your foremost teacher, and Shawna as a facilitator. We will also learn how to enter into relationship with the green world, how to approach plants and form partnerships, how to give back as well as receive plant blessings and how to grow deeper in relationship with all the wild green plants surrounding us. Emphasis as always, will be approaching herbalism from a Wise Woman Tradition perspective, which is an ancient tradition based on common, local herbs, simple applications, and deep empowerment.

All materials and handouts for the course will be provided, and you will leave with fresh crafted medicines and herbal goodies each class. There will be optional assignments for you to complete on your own to further your learning as well as suggested reading.