Urban Homesteading School of qathet

Homesteading right where you already live
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  • Classes and Events Calendar
    • Spring Video Series 2021
    • Winter -Spring Workshop Series 2020
    • Fall-Winter Workshop Series 2019
    • Homesteaders Craft Fair Nov 30 – Dec 1, 2019
      • Homesteaders’ Craft Fair promotion resources
    • Previous Events
      • Winter-Spring Workshop Series 2019: Baking, crafts and gardening
      • Fall Workshop Series 2018- Food Preservation and more
      • Homesteaders Craft Fair Dec 7-8 2018
      • Fiber & Fabric From the Ground Up – Jan 27-28 2018
      • Fall Bootcamp 2017 – Food Preservation and more
      • Homesteaders Craft Fair Dec 1-2 2017
      • Spring 2017 Bootcamp – Food production and more
      • Fiber & Fabric From the Ground Up – Jan 28-29 2017
      • Fall Bootcamp 2016 – Food Preservation and more
      • Homesteading Skills Weekend Jul 2016
      • Spring 2016 Bootcamp – Food production and more
      • Fiber & Fabric From the Ground Up – Jan 2016
      • How to Make Delicious Pastry Dec 3 2015
      • Microbusiness Bootcamp – Nov 2015
      • Food Preservation and more – Fall Bootcamp 2015
      • Urban Homesteading Spring Bootcamp 2015
      • Fiber and Fabric from the Ground Up 2015 – weekend of workshops
      • Building Healthy Soil – One Day Intensive Nov 2014
      • Fall Bootcamp Event – Urban Homesteading Oct 2014
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  • Merit Badges
    • Pandemic Merit Badge
      • Ask for help
      • Bake Bread
      • Change out of pajamas/nightclothes before 10 am
      • Disinfect incoming groceries
      • Disinfect outside doorknobs, railings, gates and mailbox
      • Display a hope or solidarity emblem
      • Grow some food
      • Help out others
      • Homeschool child(ren)
      • Make a no-sew face cover out of other clothing
      • Sew a face cover for yourself, friend or family
      • Sew 5+ cloth masks to donate to those who need them
      • Make hand sanitizer
      • Participate in a video meeting
      • Participate in family video call
      • Participate in noise-making to show support for essential workers
      • Post your own creative work to entertain others
      • Safely receive an incoming package
      • Stay home for 14 days
      • Successfully find toilet paper, flour or yeast at a shop or store
      • Wash your hands properly
      • Watch a broadcast/livestreamed show or concert
      • Work as an essential worker
      • Work from home
    • Gardening Merit Badges
      • Gardening Merit Badge Level 1
        • Make a sketch plan of your yard/patio/balcony/community garden area
        • Investigate and document your soil
        • Investigate and document your water setup
        • Set up a composting system
        • Clean and sharpen two garden tools
        • Create a new growing area / bed / container
        • Grow and harvest 2 kinds of annual vegetables
        • Grow and harvest 1 kind of fruit
        • Grow and harvest 2 kinds of herb
        • Grow 2 kinds of flowers for pollinator insects
        • Plant and nurture one type of perennial food crop
        • Grow and make use of one mulch or cover crop
        • Save one kind of seed, and germinate it successfully
        • Set up a vertical gardening system
        • Inoculate your growing area with a garden mushroom spawn
        • Maintain a comfrey plant and use it to create ‘tea’
        • Grow sprouts indoors
      • Gardening Merit Badge Level 2
        • Certify at least 2 Level 1 BB’s
        • Identify and document local wild plants (or “weeds”) that appear in your garden
        • Identify, source, acquire, and use soil amendments that your garden needs
        • Grow at least a dozen of your own transplants/seedlings, plant them out, and harvest a crop from them
        • Build at least one season-extension structure and use it
        • Harvest compost from your composting system and apply to your growing areas
        • Grow and harvest a usable crop from seeds that you saved yourself
        • Help someone else set up a new growing area
        • Encourage useful volunteer plants in your garden and make use of them
        • Save three types of seed and germinate them successfully
        • Investigate and document your local pollinator insects and which plants support them
        • Grow 4 types of plant to support pollinator insects, and record the insects that use them
        • Preserve at least one crop so that it keeps for at least 4 months
        • Use one of these timing techniques: succession, interplanting (companion planting), rotation
    • Making Meals – Merit Badges
      • Making Meals Merit Badge Level 1
        • Source local, seasonal and ethical ingredients
        • Make a hot drink without using an auto-electric appliance
        • Dice an Onion
        • Slice/shred a cabbage
        • Matchstick a Carrot
        • Peel, crush, press or mince garlic
      • Making Meals Merit Badge Level 2
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  • Resources
    • Alliums and Legumes – class notes
    • Microbusiness Bootcamp Resources

Homesteaders’ Craft Fair promotion resources

Please share the Facebook Event, or post, print and distribute the Poster or 1/4 page flyers:

Poster – full size for printing

Poster – web sized, for sharing on social media

1/4 page flyer, 4-up, full size for printing

Image with basic event info, web sized, for sharing on social media

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UHSPR operates workshops in co-operation with the Sycamore Commons permaculture project and the Skookum Food Provisioners’ Cooperative.

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