Stone Soup Institute is offering a Fall Semester to four students who are curious and adventuresome enough to explore the experiential learning opportunities on a small homestead in Maine. The primary focus of the fall semester will be building a tiny house in addition to seasonal chores on a small homestead.

• Animal Husbandry
  • Butchering pigs
  • Daily care of laying hens
  • Butchering broiler chickens
  • Daily care of draft horses
  • Logging with draft horses
• Craft
  • Wild harvesting mushrooms
  • Wine making
  • Baking in a wood-fired outdoor oven
  • Introduction to Fiber Arts
  • Introduction to Blacksmithing
• Gardening and Crops
  • Storing root vegetables for Winter
  •  Cover Cropping
  • Planting garlic
  • Threshing dry beans
  • Shelling corn
  • Saving seed from fall crops

For more information see:
http://lifeatstonesoupinstitute.blogspot.com/2013/05/fall-semester.html