In-Person & Online Homesteading Classes for Self-Sufficiency
The dream of a simpler, natural life speaks to a deep place in all of us and has inspired thousands of students to participate in our homesteading classes. Modern-day homesteading is both an embrace of the past and a revolutionary act for the future. Urban and suburban life can feel shallow and disconnected. Learning to live with the land at our homesteading school brings meaning, purpose, and empowerment.
Grow your interconnected, land-based life with our homesteading classes
In-person Homesteading Classes
NC Timber Framing Classes
Women’s Advanced Carpentry
Gardening & Permaculture Apprenticeship
Women’s Basic Carpentry Classes
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Tiny House Workshops
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Rewilding Retreat for Women
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The Nourishing Food Retreat
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Permaculture Design Course
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Wildcrafted Apothecary Classes
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Four Month Hands-on Carpentry Program
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Beginner Woodworking Classes for Adults
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Online Homesteading Classes
10 Spring Wild Foods That You Can Find Almost Anywhere
Online Tiny House Academy
Online Gardening School
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Take a step closer to your dream of a self-sufficient homestead at our Homesteading School
Only a few generations ago, most people grew up in roughly the same place as their great-grandparents. Back then, children learned from older family members how to contribute skillfully to the homestead. But nowadays, things are a bit different. Few of us were raised with extended family around. It’s common for children to focus on book learning at school; they may never wield a shovel, hoe, or hammer as part of their education.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t, as adults, renew our relationships with self sufficiency. Our homesteading classes grew out of a love for practical skills and the desire to make learning these skills accessible in a culture that has virtually abandoned them. We are here to welcome you back to your roots and build a sustainable future together.
Why take a homestead class with us?
You may wonder what sorts of skills you need to live your dream of a self-sufficient homestead? Our instructors have been experimenting with this vision for decades. You can learn a lot from their experience in our homesteading classes. As a result you’ll be able to get started with your own project on solid footing.
Our homesteading classes combine traditional Earth-based living with the modern language of permaculture design.
We believe that permaculture design and principles are incredibly useful tools when it comes to homesteading. Our traditional, 14-day Permaculture Design Course teaches them through lots of hands-on learning, site visits, and a theoretical foundation. In our experience, living with the land, permaculture, and earthskills enrich one another, which is why we’ve created a homesteading school here at Wild Abundance.
Wild and cultivated plants are the stars of our homesteading school.
Getting to know the plants around you is important for every homesteader. We are out-of-the-closet plant nerds. Botanical education works its way into all of our homesteading classes.
If the green world is what draws you most, we offer Wildcrafting & Apothecary Classes where you’ll learn all about foraging, wildcrafting, and making medicines from healing plants. We also dive into connection with the plants in our Women’s Rewilding Retreat.
Our Permaculture & Gardening Apprenticeship takes things a big step further. Of all our homesteading classes, it provides the most hands-on experience with plants in the fields, woods, and garden.
Want to explore the culinary art of cooking with wild plants and garden-grown produce? Join us for the Women’s Nourishing Food Retreat, featuring healthy cooking classes for women, traditional foods, open flame cookery, wild foods, and time devoted to gathering and circling with other women.
Self-sufficient living depends on diverse abilities, including practical and natural building skills
Everyone needs carpentry and building skills. Whether you hope to build your own home, renovate one, or just do your own maintenance and repairs, learning carpentry is important and valuable. We offer Women’s Basic Carpentry Classes and Adult Beginner Woodworking Classes that impart the essentials of carpentry and tool use.
One of our most popular homesteading classes is our Tiny House Workshop, which covers so much more than the basics. It’s 10 days long, in-person, and includes an impressive online video library full of tutorials that weave in natural and sustainable materials & building design.
For an even deeper dive into building & infrastructure development, check out our 4-Month Carpentry Training, which includes our 10-day tiny house workshop PLUS 2 days/week for 4-months of building, maintenance, and repair instruction on our permaculture homestead campuses.
For female-bodied people who may not feel comfortable with hand and power tools yet, we offer two classes designed with carpentry for women in mind: our Women’s Basic Carpentry Class and Women’s Advanced Carpentry. The difference is that we dive into structural building in the advanced class.
Homesteading classes help us reclaim the practical skills that have sustained our ancestors for generations.
Homesteading is all about being resourceful. That means learning how to use what you have at hand. When your homestead includes raising livestock and/or hunting, the knowledge of how to use the whole animal is crucial. That’s why we teach you how to tan a hide so that you can make the best quality leather right on your homestead. You can see that our homesteading school covers both the macro and the micro levels of sustainable living. As a result, we provide you with the skills you need to make your land-based living dreams a reality. Come take a homestead class with us!
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