Spring & Summer 2013 Reskilling Opportunities in the State College Area

(Readers with information about other upcoming classes are encouraged to send the info to the blog for posting.)

  • May 25 – Creating Fabulous Floral Bouquets with Gretchen Staff (Tait Farm, 466-3411)
  • June 1 – Planting a Pollinator Garden & Building a Bee Box with Justin Wheeler – Saturday, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at 301 South Garner Ave. (Call 237-0996 or email to sign up)
  • July 6 – Building Rain Barrels with Justin Wheeler – Saturday, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at 301 South Garner Ave. (Call 237-0996 or email to sign up)
  • August 3 – PCO FarmFest Homesteader Workshop Series: Cover Cropping in the Backyard Garden; Gardening for Pollinators and Native Bee Conservation; Backyard Chickens; and Canning Summer Fruits.

Spring Creek Homesteading is currently scheduling more summer workshops, possibly including Building Solar Food Driers with Lynne Heritage, Building Chicken Coops with Woody Wilson, Weed Identification & Management, Home-scale Aquaponics, and Building Bicycle-Powered Water Pumps for Garden Irrigation. Fall workshops may include  Home Weatherization SkillsCharcuterie with Steve Bookbinder and Home Soap-Making with Nellie Bhattarai.

Examples of workshop topics: cooking, baking, home food preservation, fermentation, beer-brewing, wine-making, cheese-making, butchering, sausage-making, smoking meat, home food storage system planning, gardening, herbalism and home health care, wool spinning, weaving, knitting, crocheting, sewing, quilting, rag rug braiding, pottery, chair-caning, basketry, soapmaking, candlemaking, composting, permaculture design, home-scale aquaculture, bicycle maintenance, home energy efficiency (weather stripping & insulation, small engine maintenance, basic plumbing, woodstove maintenance, metalwork/blacksmithing, woodworking, greenhouse building, furniture re-upholstery, raising backyard chickens, rabbits and bees, working with draft animals, leatherworking

Farming & Gardening Workshop Organizers

Cooking Workshop Organizers

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Information for Prospective Instructors:

The Reskilling workshops are modeled on the Whatcom Folk School in Bellingham, WA.

  • Instructors may set and keep the course fees, or have Spring Creek Homesteading set the donation amount and pay the instructors up to $200 per class
  • Instructors may set the maximum course size or have Spring Creek Homesteading set it.
  • Spring Creek Homesteading Fund offers liability coverage if we help you organize your workshop with location scheduling, supply subsidies, student registration, etc.

If you’d like to teach a workshop, please send the following information to Program Director Katherine Watt:

  1. What skill do you want to teach?
  2. What specific project will you use to teach the skill?
  3. What tools and supplies are needed?
  4. What’s the estimated tools/supplies cost per person?
  5. How much space do you need? Indoor or outdoor?
  6. How long (length of time) do you estimate it will take to set up, teach & clean up after the proposed workshop? (So we know how long to rent the facility).
  7. Are you interested in co-teaching the workshop with another instructor?
  8. A short description of the proposed course, a short bio statement, your contact information and a headshot.

OUR FIRST YEAR:

Autumn 2011 Schedule & Handouts

Winter 2012 Schedule & Handouts

Spring 2012 Schedule & Handouts

Summer 2012 Schedule & Handouts

Fall 2012 Workshops:

  • October 13 – Home Cheese-Making with Adam Seitz
  • November 10 – Home Sausage-Making with Steve Bookbinder
  • December 1 – Beginner Meditation

Winter 2013 Workshops

  • January 12 - Healing Herbs for Topical Use/Making Homemade Lotions with Stephanie Hertel
  • January 19 AND February 2 - Beginner Beer Brewing, Racking and Bottling, with Josh Lambert
  • January 19 - Creating Herbal Concoctions: Honeys, Elixirs, and Syrups, with Stephanie Hertel
  • January 26 – Building a Top Bar Bee Hive with Matt Poese and Josh Lambert.
  • February 9 - Making Sauerkraut – Intro to Vegetable Lactofermentation, with Scott DiLoreto and Matt Sullenberger
  • February 16 – Milk Jug Greenhouses with Justin Wheeler
  • February 17 – Basic Bicycle Maintenance with Justin Wagner
  • March 23 – Heritage Seed Saving with Ingrid Fowles, Matt Sullenberger & Ian Gardner
  • April 6 – From Science to Salsa: Tomatoes with Matt Sullenberger
  • April 20 - Planting Backyard Fruit & Nut Trees & Shrubs with Scott Diloreto, Emily Zink and Jennie Diehl

Online Community Calendars

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  2. Hello – I left you a phone message asking to take part in the Cheese making course being offered in October – I cannot make this class date now so please take me off the list to make room for someone else. I will watch for it in the future if offered again.
    Dee Bagshaw

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