Next Session Begins February 2024
We wont be offering this again until Fall 2024!
Be ready for a great growing season!
- Saves you time, money and frustration
- This course helps you know if homesteading is something you really want, before you make major commitments
- Tailored to the Western Washington region
- If you have a dream to to be more self-sufficient, you’ll be empowered with the personal growth possibilities in this course
- No homesteading experience required—great for anyone new to homesteading
- Boosts deeper connection, grounding, and understanding of your natural surroundings
Course is organized to so that participants are all part of one group, starting at the same time. Sign-up before the next group is full!
YOU’LL GET
- 11 online classes to experience from the safety of your own home.
- Live online mentoring with experienced permaculture homesteaders
- Videos
- Articles
- Photos
- Access to the private Facebook group where you can build community and learn with others
- Opportunity to enroll in Permaculture Homesteading Course-Level Two
COURSE TOPICS
- Permaculture 101
- Soil Science
- Zones
- Right Plant/Right Place
- Plant Guilds
- Vegetable Garden Design
- Sheet Mulching/No Till Gardens
- Composting
- Seed Starting
- Cooperative/Intentional Communities
- Eat Local
COURSE OBJECTIVES The course objective is to introduce students to a whole systems approach to living a more self-reliant life while lowering their impact on the environment. The goal is to provide the opportunity to learn new skills, hone existing skills and to use these skills with confidence. While it is true that we are working to support families by encouraging the use practical skills, the heart of this course is really based on the concept of regenerative systems for entire communities. We truly want you to complete this course and use your knowledge and skills to help create the world you want to live in. Learn from our decades of experience.
DESCRIPTION This course offers the perfect learning environment in the safety, convenience of your own space and at your own pace. You will have access to a combination of video lectures, written information, photos and live sessions that are tailored to help the student build a well-rounded set of skills and understanding of whole systems to assist them on their journey to being more self-sufficient. Live sessions are only available during the live sessions and may not be available to view later. The course is organized to start on scheduled dates so that participants are all part of a group, starting at the same time. The next Group is schedules to start a new group in December.
We created this course as part one in a series, focused on regenerative living, homesteading (food production, food preservation, herbal medicine, small livestock and more subjects based on permaculture principles), intentional community, healthy living and practical ways to fight climate change.
ORGANIZATION Course material has been organized to start with the basic information and to build upon it so that students have a solid foundation to build their knowledge upon.
*Note on Access– When you join a course. you create a personal account on this website. An email is automatically generated as a receipt to this course. In this email, there is a password for your account. We recommend requesting a lost password so you can create a password that you can remember. Once you are on the website, look to the menu bar where you will see My Courses. That is where you will find your courses. Click on My Courses to open up a list of courses that you are registered for. Also, our paid courses each have their own passwords that was also sent to you in the initial email. Check your spam folder if you don’t see that email. Feel free to email us if you are having challenges.
Level Two is only available after you have fulfilled the pre-requisites in Level One.
Leah Carlson (verified owner) –
I am immensely grateful for the access to Marilene’s knowledge and experience through this course. She does such an authentic job of communicating course materials and truly prioritizes the aspect of community for her students. I feel so excited and energized around permaculture principles around my new home, and I look forward to learning from Marilene in the future as I grow my own homestead. This is such an incredible journey worth pursuing!
SNadmin (verified owner) –
Thank you so much Leah. I am truly happy that you find this course helpful and of a good value to you. My intention is to save people time, money and frustration. It is a pleasure to have you as an apprentice.
Dawn Madsen (verified owner) –
I’ve known Marilene for many years and in this time of transition and consideration, looking at the future of our planet as well as our society, I turned to Marilene’s Songcroft Homestead Course for guidance, knowledge, and community. She gave me such a strong foundation to start building from and exploring and I cannot wait to take this knowledge and apply it going forward by helping my parents transform their home and the space around them. Going forward, I want to take this knowledge into my community and inspire others to do the same and this course provides the springboard to be able to do so!
SNadmin (verified owner) –
Thank you so much for the review, Dawn. I am really glad that the courses you are taking with me are helpful. I am also super excited that you will be using what you learn from me to help your community be more resilient. Regenerative agriculture and permaculture are key to healthy communities.