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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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