Heritage Skills USA, a southern Ohio-based organization that hosts the Heritage Skills USA Homesteading Summit (formerly the Old School Survival Boot Camp) among other events, also offer the Homestead Homeschool.
The Homestead Homeschool is a hands-on educational experience that nurtures a love for learning, self-reliance, and homesteading skills.
The homeschool curriculum is designed specifically for homesteading and self-reliant families who seek to give their children a comprehensive and engaging homeschooling education.
The homestead education theme units are meticulously crafted to grow with your child from preschool through high school, ensuring a seamless and enriched learning journey. Additionally, our units are perfect for teaching multiple age children at once, making homeschooling both effective and enjoyable for the entire family, according to founder Tara Dodrill.
The Homestead Homeschool mixes book learning with hands-on experiences you’d find on a homestead. With this curriculum, from the little learner to high school teens, homeschoolers get to blend in traditional school subjects like math and science with real-life skills from living on a homestead. It’s all about teaching homeschool students how to get a better understanding of things they otherwise would only learn about books.
This can help them understand the world better, especially through the lens of homesteading, Dodrill said.
“For example, when they’re learning about numbers or how plants grow, they use examples from taking care of animals or growing their own food. This way, it makes what they’re studying feel more connected to everyday life. Plus, it doesn’t just stop at basic stuff; as kids grow older within this program, they’ll pick up even cooler skills like building things out of wood and managing money by running parts of the homestead themselves,” she added.
