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Gardening
- Grow lots of food in the ground. Homestead veggie gardens, food forests, seed starting, seed saving, etc. Culminates with growing 4 million calories.
Building
- Build with natural building techniques and some cleaner conventional methods.
Straw bale, cordwood, log cabin, slip straw, wattle and daub, remodeling, building structures. Culminates with building a house.
Woodland
- Harvest renewable resources from a forest and maintain it as a woodland. Tree felling, sawmill work, sawmill waste upcycling, fencing,
mushrooms, chainsaw skills, etc.
Round wood woodworking
- Turn woodland materials into strong and beautiful things. Tools, furniture, ladders, stairs, buildings, roundhouse, etc.
Toolcare
- Care for your tools and the place in which you do work. Sharpening, oiling, organizing, maintaining, fixing, etc.
Earthworks
- Adjust the landscape to make long term improvements to the land. Slowing, spreading and sinking water, improving access, playing with rocks, heavy equipment, etc.
Dimensional lumber woodworking
- Turn dimensional lumber into projects for the home. Rough and finish carpentry, furniture, trim, joinery, etc.
Wood Heat
- Harness the power of fire. Heating spaces, cooking food, warming water, building stoves, etc.
Food Prep and Preservation
- Convert the harvests from a homestead into nutritious meals. Baking, fermenting, canning, roasting, etc.
Animal Care
- Showing that you can care for domestic and wild creatures.
Shelters, habitat, food, parasites, breeding, fencing, harvesting, etc.
Foraging
- Identify, collect, preserve and eat food from uncultivated places. Berries, nuts, herbs, fruit, hunting, fishing, etc.
Community
- Build a community in a place.
Art, clubs, community gardens, classes, spreading information, building actual communities, etc.
Textiles
- Maintain and create clothing from natural materials. Mending, sewing, weaving, knitting, leather, spinning, etc.
Household Waste Streams
- Show that you can redirect your streams of "waste" into things that are more beneficial for the world. Glass, aluminum, paper, plastic, cardboard, greywater, blackwater, etc.
Metalworking
- Shape metal into useful pieces for homestead life. Welding, forging, sheet metal, drilling, cutting, etc
Plumbing
- Repair, modify and create plumbing systems.
Electrical
- Repair, modify and create electrical systems.
Commerce
- Find ways to make money on your own terms. Passive income, residual income streams, cottage industries, etc
Nat Medicine
- Heal yourself and others by harnessing the power of natural substances
Nest
- Keep your home clean and cozy without using toxic gick
Homesteading
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