Learn to grow nutritious sustenance for you and your family. Our farmers and gardeners will share with you from their years of experience.
In our classes on soap making, bread baking, cheese making and canning and food preservation, you will learn a number of skills that are essential for the sustainable family and homestead.
We offer an extensive range of hands-on workshops, classes and seminars. You can learn traditional crafts while making fine hand-crafted items yourself and gaining skills that you can pass on to your children and grandchildren.
Featured Classes
What is the Ploughshare?
How, some may ask, can an institute hope to contribute to creating a culture? An institute seems so formal and lifeless, while a culture is a living thing. Let us explain. The word institution originally meant “a summary of principles,” and its root meaning is “to cause to stand in or towards” something, and we do want to “cause” something—even certain “principles”—”to stand.” But, again, we are more than an institution, we are a people. Read More
Upcoming Events
- 2013 Homestead Craft Fair - 608 Dry Creek Rd, Waco, TX 76705, November 29, 2013
- Mother Earth News Fair - Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, September 20, 2013
- 19th Annual Sweet Sorghum Festival - 608 Dry Creek Rd, Waco, TX 76705, September 2, 2013
- Midwest Self Reliance Festival - 301 Ashworth Road West Des Moines, Iowa, June 28, 2013