Forgotten Skills & Backyard Renaissance Classes Autumn 2013

Forgotten Skills & Backyard Renaissance Classes Autumn 2013

with Caleb Warnock

TWO OPTIONS for taking this year’s classes:

1. August 10 from 8 a.m. to noon in Caleb’s Backyard. (Email calebwarnock@yahoo.com for address) $99 before noon Aug. 8. $129 thereafter. Register at SeedRenaissance.com. Each participant takes home a cold frame and $50+ seeds. Check-in begins 7:30 a.m. Healthy lunch included. Bring your own chair.

2. Online. $99. $99 before noon Aug. 9. $129 thereafter. Check-in online Friday, Aug. 9. Class online from Aug. 12-16 at your convenience (no specific time required). Each participant will be mailed cold frame polycarbonate with instructions, and $50+ seeds. Register at SeedRenaissance.com.

This year’s classes include (times listed are for the class in my backyard, not online):

- No Nonsense Household Tips for Saving Money. 8-8:30.

This popular class is offered again for the first time in three years! How to make the best, easiest bulk powder laundry soap, enough for more than 1,000 loads in 20 minutes at 1.8 cents a load! Save hundreds of dollars on shaving razors, dishwashing machine soap and much, much more!

- Backyard Help for Cold, Flu, Sinus & Asthma. 8:30-9:30.

In this hands-on class, Caleb will teach you the best backyard herbal treatments. We will make and sample the herbal treatments, starting from scratch, and discuss which herbs to use to help which conditions. This class covers prevention and treatment.

- Forgotten Prepper: 15+ Essential, Simple Skills You Don’t Have. 9:30-10:30

Easy homemade garden hand soap, backyard candles, sanitation, backyard lotion, and many other things every family should know for emergency preparedness and everyday use.

- Never Buy Chicken Feed Again -- 20+ strategies for feeding chickens. 10:30-11

Includes at least a dozen foods you can grow in your garden for year-round chicken food, as well as where and how to get free chicken food, and how to manage a flock to make is self-sufficient.

- Fall and Winter Gardening With Cold Frame 11-noon

Each participant will go home with at least $40 in seed for fall and winter gardening, with the latest information about the best autumn and winter varieties. Cold Frames -- Each student will go home with a cold frame that we will make in class, with information on how to use it and the seed you need to get started immediately.

- Four Best Wild Edibles. Noon-1

Each student will certify with Caleb their ability to individually recognize, harvest and prepare the four best backyard wild edibles.

- Q and A with Caleb. 1 p.m. until whenever.

Caleb takes your questions.