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Ever wish you could just go to " homestead school" and learn all those great homestead skills you'd like to have in one place? Well, if that's something you are interested in, here's a link for you:
http://www.homesteadheritage-homesteading.com/index.html
The Center for Essential Education
in Elm Mott, Texas offers a 3-day Homesteading Course, which covers gardening, orchards, livestock, beekeeping and more.
In the agricultural area, they offer classes in:
Homestead Gardening
Seeds and Seedlings—
Starting Plants Indoors
Growing Culinary Herbs
Raising Chickens
Beekeeping—An Introduction
Beekeeping Basics
Homestead Carpentry
Practical Flower Gardening
Horse Farming
They also offer many other classes for learning those homestead crafts, such as basketry, bread making, soapmaking, pottery, carpentry, blacksmithing, etc. Check out their website for more information on their working homestead, school, and visitor's center. Our family recently spent a Saturday afternoon there and had a wonderful time. We enjoyed wandering through the herb and vegetable garden, watching the workers pressing sorghum and then seeing the juice being boiled down into syrup (not a job I'd like to have). We also toured the antique gristmill and learned a bit about how they grind the grains into the flours they sell. My daughters were fascinated with the ladies who were making coffee cups in the pottery shop.
I would love to take their homesteading classes, and who knows I just may get to do that someday. Sure would be fun if some of you were there, too!
Garden Blessings,
Catherine
Catherine Love lives and gardens in Texas with her husband Carl and 3 daughters, Sarah, Hannah, and Cana. They're currently living the "urban homestead adventure" in an apartment, but have plans to head for the country soon! Read Catherine's thoughts about gardening, herbs, homesteading and more at
www.homesteadblogger.com/CatherineAnn .
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