Homesteading Schools

Homesteading schools help people learn how to live off the land and enjoy a simpler lifestyle. One thing to remember about homesteading is that most people have a supplemental income to help pay for bills. You might choose to commute to work, while living more simply, or you could have a private business selling homemade items. Homesteading schools and courses help you figure out these details.
  1. Center for Essential Education

    • The Homesteading Heritage Center offers single-day and multiday classes in homesteading. The center is part of a Christian ministry program, but they do not insist on a shared belief by everyone. However, you will be working on a model area of the center's working farm. Courses are on topics such as owning a family cow, beekeeping, gardening, fencing, water supply and other animal care. Courses range from $75-$250 as of February 2011, depending on how long it lasts and what the course entails.

    Apple Family Farm

    • Indiana has the Apple Family Farm that offers homesteading classes. Classes are one, two or three days long. Some of the courses offered include keeping chickens, butchering, logging, soapmaking, owning dairy animals and grazing. The Apple Family Farm also provides classes in marketing and bookkeeping, a skill very useful if you will be running your own business through your homestead. Call for prices.

    The Institute of Urban Homesteading

    • Oakland, California's Institute of Urban Homesteading teaches people how to use homesteading techniques in an urban environment, such as growing as vegetable gardens on community plots and learning to live a simple lifestyle in an urban environment. Classes cover urban gardening, animal husbandry, kitchen skills, canning, cheese making and brewcraft.

    Quaker Hill Farm

    • The Quaker HIll Farm in Michigan offers a number of classes on homesteading, most costing about $75 as of February 2011. Classes cover skills such as beekeeping, growth and usage of medicinal health, poultry raising, breadmaking and other homesteading skills. The Quaker Hill Farm is working on creating online how-to articles on homesteading for people who can't visit the farm itself.

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