Prerequisites: None

This workshop is for those of you who want to learn how to safely use and sharpen tools that you would use in the woods.  We will learn about all types of axes, saws, and knives, and you will get hands on instruction in the forest.  You will get to use some of the old time one and two man crosscut saws, bucksaws, and get to try different types of axes.  Please bring leather gloves and safety glasses.

Location: Wells

Cost: $90

Prerequisites: None

Have you ever wanted to preserve and store your own food?  You will learn how to can in a hot water bath and with a pressure canner.  The use of these methods depends on the food you are canning.  We will also delve into how to store vegetables fresh by root cellaring.  If you have a food you want to can bring it along with some canning jars and lids otherwise we will be canning food from the our garden.

Location: Wells

Cost: $90

Prerequisites: None

In this workshop you will learn about Humanure Composting and build a simple composting toilet you can use in your home.  Composting human waste is simple and safe completing the cycle by putting back to the earth what you take from it.  It also provides wonderful natural fertilizer you can use for your vegetable garden or on your trees. 

Location: Wells

Cost: $90

This experience brings the learner through invisible school technologies used to heighten the senses, increase awareness, develop empathy and a passion for learning.  You will awaken latent learning and sharing skills and learn tools dsigned to bring your students through the wall of grief.  The powerful results of genuine learning in place of rote memorization awaken the minds' child like curiosity and bring awareness skills back on line that were neglected in most people "schooling" experience.  Learn the "symptoms" of a whole human being and how to get beyond the flight or fight response of the 9 to 5 treadmill.  Warning: These technologies will empower you and your students beyond the "sheople" context of "learning" and "living".  Once you bring these skills back on line, they can not be turned off.  Side effects include increased hunger for knowledge, experiences, and awareness skills, a playfullness and quickness of wit that will drive the mindless gray masses crazy, and a painfully increased sense of empathy and a desire to live ones vision fully.  People who desire to live in blissful ignorance or who have grown attached to a sense of lack of fulfillment should avoid taking this course.

Cost: 180.00