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Every skill on this site can be yours

The point of open-sourcing a workshop is teaching what it knows. We're building the curriculum in the order you ask for it — vote for what you want first, and the first classes run in person, hands-on, this year.

Cultivation

Mushroom Cultivation from Scratch

From spore to fruit: substrate prep, inoculation, growing environments, harvest.

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MycoMaterials Workshop

Grow building materials from mycelium: mycobricks, mushroom leather, and beyond.

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Building

Timber Framing Fundamentals

Traditional joinery, layout, and raising. Two-day intensive.

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Carpentry Essentials

Hand tools, power tools, joinery, and building functional pieces from scratch.

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Natural Building: Cob & Straw

Earth-based construction for walls, benches, and ovens.

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Yurt Building Workshop

A complete yurt from frame to cover. Multi-day hands-on build.

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Growing

Composting & Vermicompost

Hot piles, worm bins, and turning waste into garden gold.

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Permaculture Design

Reading the land, designing food systems, building soil that builds itself.

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Gardening Fundamentals

Soil prep, seed starting, succession planting, harvest planning.

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Animal Husbandry Basics

Chickens, eggs, and folding animals into a permaculture system.

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Health & Making

Herbal Skills & Tincture Making

Dual extraction, infusions, and potent medicine from what you grow.

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Nutrition from the Land

Eating from your garden, preserving the harvest, seasonal nutrition.

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Technology

Self-Hosting 101

YunoHost, Pixelfed, PieFed, POSSE. Own your digital life on your own hardware.

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Home Assistant & the Smart Workshop

Sensors, automations, and building your own Lyra for an AI-assisted homestead.

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Systems

Building a Closed-Loop Workshop

The complete model: how to design and run a woodshop-mushroom-compost loop in your own context.

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How Classes Work

Small groups, real tools, on the land

Classes run in person at the workshop — on the Maine side of the White Mountains, where the edges meet — capped small enough that your hands stay busy the whole time. You leave with the skill, the notes, and in most classes something you made or grew.

Every class also gets filmed. As the catalog grows, the recordings become courses you can take from anywhere, so what gets taught here doesn't stay here. Winners of the vote get built first. Want in when the first one opens? The letter hears first.

The Monthly Letter

Be first in the door

Class dates go to the letter before they're posted anywhere else. Seats are few.

No spam, no selling your address. Self-hosted, like everything else here.

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