Homestead Series: Preserving the Harvest

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Homestead Series: Preserving the Harvest

Do you long to increase your knowledge, skills, health, and food security through understanding how to preserve your own food? This course is for you!

Registration: $78

Includes video classes, recipes and downloadable resources,

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Even in the modern era of "abundance," most of us have less food security than our grandparents did. This class can change that.

This course doesn't just teach you a variety of food preservation techniques, it also encourages you to think out of the box when it comes to food and food security with discussions on eating seasonally, increasing your health and vitality, growing your own food and harvesting from the wild.

With instruction, downloadable resources, inspiration, and philosophy, Preserving the Harvest has something for everyone.

We will cover:

Understanding factors that affect food spoilage
A variety of preservation techniques like canning, drying, freezing, and fermenting
Ways to think about eating seasonally
A tour of an off-grid root cellar
Ideas for growing your own food and using wild foods

For a complete list of classes included, scroll to the bottom of this page.

The goal of Buckskin Revolution courses are to empower, inspire, and connect. We hope you'll join us and empower yourself with these important life skills.

Testimonials from online course students:

Woniya is an absolute superhero and it has nothing to do with her time on “Alone.” She is an incredibly giving educator. Despite having an immense amount of knowledge, she approaches teaching with no ego and it’s clear she truly delights in helping others discover new-to-them things. While there are seemingly endless skills that a person could learn from Woniya, the most important thing she does is help people discover that they can shift their relationship with the natural world. That is such a huge revelation, and yet she makes it feel possible, one little piece and a-ha moment at a time. She breaks down what might seem daunting and makes it feel doable by people from all backgrounds and experience levels. Taking a course with Woniya opened my mind to the kind of learning I thought I was capable of, and for that I will always be grateful.

Becca Jenkins, Fall Gathering Participant

“Hey Woniya, I just wanted to let you know how grateful I am for that off-grid living course you did years ago. Yesterday one of my employers shut down because of the virus, and I was thinking about how different my anxiety levels would be if I had not taken your course. I don’t have the same sort of existential fear I think I might have if I didn't have the confidence that I could grow food or make what I need. Thanks for sharing your skills” — Brit Keeton

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Who This Course is For

Beginners

You don't have to have any experience with food preservation or even cooking to get a lot out of this class.

Even if you've never even picked up a canning jar, you will leave the course with the confidence to put up your own food in a variety of ways.

Experienced Enthusiasts

Even if you have experience with food preservation techniques, the thorough coverage of a wide variety of techniques, including how and why they work, in Preserving the Harvest will increase your knowledge base and confidence, plus give you some new ideas to try.

Homestead Hopefulls

If you have dreamed of farming, homesteading, or living off-grid, but don't know where to start, this course is perfect for you.

It will give you a foundation in important basic knowledge and give you confidence, and a jumping-off place for your future homestead ventures.

It's for you if:

🥬 You want to have a deeper connection to the food you eat

💪 You want to learn how to be more self-sufficient and resilient

🧺 You are eager to begin or deepen your relationship with Ancestral, Off-Grid, Homestead, and Land based living skills

🏞️ You’d like to nourish your body and well being with the freshest, healthiest food you can get

🦌 You are concerned about food security and want to be better prepared for natural disasters, power grid failures, supply chain disruptions, or anything else that comes your way

🏹 You feel drawn to skills that have been around since before life got so technical and complicated

🌎 You care about lowering your carbon footprint and lessening dependence on store-bought and industrial goods

💞 You want to know that you aren’t the only weirdo out there who is into these things

Video Lessons in 8 Modules

The classes are arranged into 8 modules:

Introduction to Preserving the Harvest
Canning: A Homestead Staple
Drying
Fermenting
Freezing
Preserving with Sugar
Root Cellaring
Growing Your Own
Wild Plant Foods

About Woniya

Woniya Thibeault has been teaching ancestral and off-grid living skills for over 20 years.

She has spent a lot of her adult life living off grid, growing and gathering as much of her diet as she can, tanning the hides for the clothes she wears, harvesting the willow for the baskets she gathers food into and more.

She extensive experience with wilderness living, and a formal education with a Masters Degree in Environmental Science, she combines these to teach in a way that brings a knowledge of and love of the living world around her.

Woniya is best know for her participation on the Alone show on the History channel where she was the runner-up on Season 6 and the first woman to win the series on Alone Frozen.

She is passionate about offering her knowledge of the skills she used there to the many people who were inspired by watching her journey. She looks forward to bringing the "Buckskin Revolution" to a world of people hungry to revolutionize the way they live their lives.

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“I feel very lucky to be entering into this more natural and grounded world at my age, and to be able to draw knowledge and spiritual guidance from you and everyone in this community. I will work to preserve these skills and this mindset that I have been taught, so I can hopefully teach others in the future. Sorry for the rant, but I feel so grateful for the work you have done and everything you have taught. — Darren Glover, 16
Participant in Fall Online Gathering

“I keep looking for the silver linings in this pandemic, and this was one of them for me... Whatever I was expecting, this totally exceeded my expectations. The zoom sessions really felt like I was not alone in this. And gave me a chance to ask questions. I try to describe the people I meet in gatherings to others and they are impossible to describe - but overwhelmingly positive. Overall, I was amazed.” — Karen Stewart, Spring Gathering Participant

Scholarships

Buckskin Revolution wants these skills to be available to everyone. If cost is a barrier, we invite you to apply for a full or partial scholarship. In the spirit of equity and reparations, scholarships are also available for indigenous, black and transgender or gender non-conforming people.

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“I love your 'coyote mentoring,' how your eyes catch a lizard climbing a tree, a bird, a song, and you let these interrupt the linear movement of your narrative in the videos. When I was walking in the woods yesterday with my grandson I noticed how much he did that (he's 6). It's a kind of delightful meandering and attitude of wonderment. Thank you for modeling how adults can meander and be in wonder too!”
— Sarah Pike

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Preserving the Harvest

Introduction to Preserving the Harvest

Understanding food spoilage.mp4

Food Security Part 1

Food Security Part 2

A Homesteading Staple: Canning!

Water Bath Canning for acidic fruits and vegetables

Pressure Canning for safe canning of Meat and Broth

Freezing for Food Preservation

Introduction to Freezing for Food Preservation

Freezing Techniques Part 1.mp4

Freezing Techniques Part 2.mp4

Drying

Preserving the Harvest through Drying: Dried Summer Squash

Making jerky with the Meatsicle technique

Fermenting

Intro to Lacto-fermentation: The how's and why's

Making Sauerkraut Part 1

Making Sauerkraut Part 2

Preserving with Sugar

Preserving with Sugar: Violet Syrup

Root Cellaring

Tour of my Handbuilt Root Cellar

Growing Your Own

Tour of a Three Sisters Garden

Wild Plant Foods

Ethical Harvest and Wild Tending

Milk Thistle: Food, Medicine, and spiky representative of the Aster family

Watercress and Watercress Soup!

Elm Samaras- Salad on a branch

Resources

The 10 Best Vacuum Sealers of 2023.docx

Eating Wilder Outline.docx

Food Storage and Seasonal Eating.docx

Preserving the Harvest Reading List.docx