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Living Skills School

Essentials for Homesteading program starts this February! Registration is now open for The Living Skills Essentials Program.

The Essentials Program gives students an understanding of what is necessary to begin on the journey toward self sufficiency. This program meets roughly one weekend a month, February through October with two field trips. Some of what you will experience:

-Wild food and medicine hike on the Appalachian Trail
-Building with local materials
-Propagation, pruning, and grafting of herbs, berries, and f

ruit and nut trees
-Use and Maintenance of the tools of the homestead: from axes and knives to chainsaws
-Garden planning and planting
-Tree identification and use
-Using, making and tending fire
-Communication skills
-Homesteading site assessment
-Seed saving
-Food preservation
-Botany
-Home design
-Directional tree felling
-Water in the landscape
-Wood carving
-Cooking with locally grown and wild foods

11/03/2017

WORK TRADERS NEEDED!
We are looking for folks to post flyers for work trade for upcoming classes. Tag this post and share with folks that you think might be interested in this.
Click below to register. Thanks!

Wild Abundance is here to empower people with skills for self-sufficiency and interdependence. We develop deeply meaningful and effective classes, programs, and demonstration sites to bring people closer to the each other and to the web of life. We believe that these skills are humanity's legacy; we...

01/16/2017

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Wild Abundance is a women-led carpentry, tiny house building, gardening, and permaculture school with both in-person and online classes. We share practical skills for personal empowerment and community resilience with deep respect for the natural world.