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The Ploughshare Campus
The Texas campus of The Ploughshare Institute for Sustainable Culture is located approximately five miles north of Waco, Texas and includes the Homestead Craft Village and Cafe Homestead. The campus is situated adjacent to the Homestead Heritage community at Brazos de Dios which includes 510 acres of mixed woodland and arable farmland cultivated by traditional sustainable farming and gardening methods. Four of those acres are designated as The Ploughshare’s teaching and research homestead where we offer workshops and seminars to those wanting to learn homesteading skills. The homestead contains a log cabin, a barn, a greenhouse, a family vegetable and herb garden, an orchard, a vineyard and berry patch, animal pens and corrals, pastures and a larger field that we farm with draft animals. The Ploughshare homestead provides a context for hands-on, interactive learning on a working farm.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Homestead Craft Village
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