Community Partners
Registration for February 2024
Online Permaculture Homesteading Classes
Established 2006
Registration for February 2024
Limited space
Why do we start in February? So that we can help you build a strong foundation of understanding soil science, garden design and seed starting before the growing season begins. It also allows for you to have us guide you through Spring, when you and your garden likely need the most support.
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Practical Skills
Comprehensive Lessons Build Self-Sufficiency Variety of Topics
Live Sessions
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Convenient and Safe Learning
Experienced Teachers Teachers who actually live what they teach
These are tumultuous times
Working with our hands, connecting to the earth and the soil, growing our own food, making our own herbal medicine and living in the rhythm of the seasons is truly a balm for the soul.
Allow us to help you learn how to grow your own food, whether you do this in a community pea-patch garden, an apartment patio or your own land. Let us inspire you to grow a little extra for food banks and to help your neighbors also benefit from the knowledge and skill you gain by taking this course. This course will help experienced folks and give even the newest homesteader a practical skill set to help you start out on a solid foundation.
If you are concerned about changes in food and fuel prices, food equity, if you want to actively supplement your grocery budget, or if you want to hone your skills while reconnecting with nature and it’s rhythms, or if you simply long for a strong, helpful community, enroll in our program!
SongCroft Homestead School empowers you because we actually mentor our apprentices to be better equipped to deal with changes in their lives and environments. We have been doing this in this location since 2008. This makes us stand out from other opportunities.
You will never regret knowing how to grow your own food and how to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle.
Decades of Experience
and a Desire to Help
What Others Have to Say
Marilene and Brian Richardson have been growing thier family's permaculture homestead for many years, all the while artfully weaving in apprentices to learn hands-on skills. Thier programs cover everything from cooperative community living/decision making to how to manage a profitable organic herbal products business. If you are keen to truly learn whole-systems strategies for abundance and resilience, and take a journey to a deeper exploration of what repository of knowledge you'd like to grow into yourself, you could not pick better guide and mentors than Marilene and Brian. Be prepared to cultivate rich soil literally and metaphorically, plant seeds of intention, and learn how to nurture those in synergistic ways - you will come away enriched and empowered.
Jenny Pell
Permaculture Now, Maui, USA
Marilene's knowledge is vast, she has walked the path with success and doesn't keep anything to herself when it comes to sharing all the information and delivers straight forward advice. She's really encouraging.
My journey is long but after seeing what she has accomplished I feel I'm on the right path. Private consultations have been tremendously helpful and I'm so thankful for everything I've learned.I've went from a humble novice, to a level I now feel comfortable making lasting decisions on my land. She's a wholesome person and kind soul.
Grisel Gallardo
Woodinville, USA
Marilene has been a trusted advisor, teacher and mentor for over a decade. The permaculture design of her yard and gardens, the sustainable building techniques of her home, and the educational programs she offered over the years inspired us to follow suit as we renovate an old family farmhouse in a similar fashion. As a result, we were prepared for the recent economic and health emergencies, shared an abundance of produce with our community, and gained strength from Marilene’s leadership on many levels throughout this challenging time. The authentic and ethical way she built her herbal, health and wellness business over the years also served as a model for our own enterprises, and we encourage anyone to jump at a chance to learn from Marilene whenever she offers a program to the public.
Kim and Chris Chisolm
Wolf Camp & School of Naural Science at Blue Skye Farm, Puyallup, WA.
I love visiting Marilene at her homestead because she always works on fun and beautiful projects, building wonderful garden areas or animal housing or preparing tinctures and preserves for winter and for medicine.
Her skills are not merely making her own place a home but she shifts our world to me a better place for every single one of us. She loves. She loves Earth, she loves Nature, she loves people. We are all lucky because she lives
Zsofia Pasztor
Farmer Frog, Everett, USA