The homesteading tsunami is real and I’m delighted to see it.  Part of that movement is a yearning to learn on one end and numerous teaching platforms on the other end.  I’m a book guy for sure, but our modern context is moving more and more toward video content and on-line curricula.

             Today I’m honored and thrilled to announce an upcoming platform called THE SCHOOL OF TRADITIONAL SKILLS.  The initial launch will be in a couple of weeks; public announcements have been embargoed until today.  In full transparency, participation does monetarily benefit me since I’m one of the initial 8 instructors. Summit dates are September 12-15 and is FREE to attend!

             See below for the full publicity rollout.  Back in May a video team spent 3 days here at Polyface filming my course titled RECLAIMING PASTURE.  I created the content, outline, filming schedule and picked the locations where we’d film.  Many people either buy or locate onto property with neglected, overgrown, forest encroached, or low fertility pastures.

             The team launching this learning platform is professional and very much has an ear to the ground for hot button issues in this space.  They picked the topic; I didn’t.  But they let me develop everything in the course.  It shows contrast videos of before and after with various treatments.  Fortunately, since we lease numerous properties, I was able to take the crew to various sites in different stages of reclamation. 

             As you can imagine, the conventional orthodoxy of tillage, planting seeds, and spreading fertilizer is not my protocol.  My content includes various starting contexts:  early succession forestry, brambles and brush, or sparse vegetation.  Then I show strategic animal movement requiring control (fencing), shelter, water, and mobbing.  I go into forage growth principles and fertility principles from organic matter to carbonic acid and earthworms.

             I’m delighted to be a part of this team and hope it will spread the can-do spirit among self-reliant independent-minded folks around the world.  Instead of continuing the exploitation mentality, let’s start a stewardship tsunami.  Thanks for caring.