Six “How To Homestead” Schools
A Living Off The Grid article lists six schools with homesteading courses. The list includes Homesteading Heritage Center for Essential Education (Texas), Apple Family Farm (Indiana), Muller’s Lane Farm (Illinois), The Institute of Urban Homesteading (California), Pioneer School of Homesteading (Michigan), and Self-Reliance Resources (North Carolina).
The schools are reasonably described with web links to each one. A link to an “agritourism” resource is also listed and info about other homesteading schools are solicited for their comments section.
The same article contains some good practical advice, for example:
“The first thing you should probably know is that most homesteaders have a second income. Maybe they work “in town” or telecommute, or perhaps they have their own business, such as selling honey or hand-made soaps. Even hardcore legends like the Nearings had supplemental income selling syrup and books. One way to bring in some extra cash, which we’ll talk about in an upcoming article, is to offer farmstay style cabin or cottage rentals.”
“Another way some homesteaders help pay the bills is to give classes on homesteading, which is - without further digression - the point of this article. . .”
October 24th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Thanks for the writeup Ken. Feel free to drop by any time and comment or email me if you have any articles I might want to link to about living off the grid.
Take care!
Everett
December 14th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Plunged in total and absolute tranquillity, the agritourism ?REGNO DI MARZAGAGLIA? was born officially on 1st May 2002