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We find the leading experts and travel to their farm or homestead, capturing their workshops on video, and delivering their knowledge and experience to you.
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Learn how to rapidly build soil from low cost or free inputs to produce bountiful crops, from your backyard to a back acre. We will cover together the forces that prevent good soil formation and cause soil loss, how to build soil rapidly, and how to protect and steward it for years to come. A host of skills, strategies, and techniques will be covered, including solarization, weed suppression, compost, cover cropping, incorporating animals in annual spaces, and more.

Have you heard about the benefits of worm compost, but are unsure how to get started? Or are you a seasoned worm compost maker, wanting to learn additional tips, skills, and options for low cost and flexible infrastructure to take your composting to the next level? This course will cover the basics of making worm compost up to a small farm or homestead level and volume.

Annie Warmke will provide an overview of her philosophy for keeping goats, touching on what to look for when starting your herd, natural goat health, simple remedies for common health challenges, herbal parasite control and the general make-up of a healthy animal. She will demonstrate hoof trimming since it is a major part of goat health. The goal of this course is to gain confidence around goats.
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The sun is just waiting to be harnessed, and what better time to utilize that energy then when there's no electric energy. Learn the basics in a step-by-step process of putting together a solar generator, including where to buy the components. Quiet, efficient, and easy to maintain...solar generators might in your future. Â
Homestead Hacks

Milk Feed Trick
Learn Annie’s trick for buying yourself more milking time.

DC-to-DC Converters
Learn why and how to use DC-to-DC converters on your homestead.

Fermented Hot Sauce
How to make a fermented hot sauce in your own kitchen.

Intro to Ultracapacitors
Learn how to use ultracapacitor batteries for non-traditional power storage.

DIY Vacuum Canner
How to build your own vacuum canner for dry canning at home, by modifying a store-bought pressure cooker.
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