Schools and magazines trying to sell you things are a dime a dozen, but few of them are marketing Joy. Joybilee Farm in British Columbia does just that, with a school for self-reliant skills that pledges to help you "laugh at time to come." Chris Dalziel homesteads, homeschools, writes, raises fiber animals and linen, and lives to share her passion for the independent, authentic life through her blog and facebook page that facilitate the growth of a homesteading community. Sign up for her free newsletter, and get her free booklet "4 Keys to Security and Homestead Abundance" which should be required reading in every Home Economics 101 course ever taught. Chris offers online tutorials, a subscription service to homesteading kindle books, and an annual linen festival camp-out at the farm amongst other learning opportunities.Women can find a warm, supporting, fun environment amidst the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont at the Vermont Outdoors Women Fall Doe Camp. VOW's mission is "to encourage and enhance the participation of women of all ages and abilities in outdoor activities through hands-on education." At Doe Camp, you can opt learn to canoe, navigate by the stars, cook fresh-caught trout, shoot archery or firearms, fish, kayak, start a fire with flint and steel, hunt turkeys or pan for gold.
Your self-confidence grows with your self-sufficiency, and your food security, health and economic well being are all improved as your relationship to the land becomes richer and deeper, be it through learning new wild foods to forage, new fly fishing skills, or how to sheer a sheep and spin and knit your own sweater. Going back to school with resources like Joybilee Farm and Vermont Outdoors Women are great places to start taking steps towards your own independence and food security.
