Homesteading

Homesteading

Gain the knowledge and skills that you’ll need to establish your own homestead. Our classes include discussions on planning and design, how to evaluate land, organic gardening, orchards, raising chickens and other poultry, raising dairy animals, fencing and other topics.

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Teachers

Butch Tindell

Butch speaks regularly to groups locally and nationwide on the issues of sustainable agriculture based upon his 35 years of experience as a gardener and farmer. As an instructor at The Ploughshare for the past 21 years, he has taught sustainable farming and ranching to hundreds of beginning and experienced farmers and gardeners. He has also developed numerous courses and published curriculum on these topics. In addition to teaching and research, he is a farm and ranch consultant with Homestead Farm Design. Butch and his wife, Diane, along with their children and grandchildren own and operate Aquilla Valley Farm, a small, diversified family farm north of Waco, Texas.

Hannah Wiley

Hannah grew up in multiple foreign countries including England and Panama. She now lives on her family's 67-acre farm and tends large gardens, integrating fruits, vegetables, flowers and herbs, and saving open-pollinated seeds. She regularly makes a variety of cheeses from her family's herd of Nubian goats. Hannah inspires many students at The Ploughshare with her experiential knowledge in gardening, homesteading and cheesemaking.

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