Homeschool Enrichment Program
Homestead
Home Ec
A modern, premium 30-week course
teaching K-12 homeschool students
the traditional arts of household stewardship.
Real Life
Traditional Living for Modern Life
We teach young adults practical skills in food, craft, and stewardship.Today's world is surrounded by pre-fab environments, virtual reality, and processed foods.
In many ways we've literally lost touch with the world around us.Homestead Home Ec is re-discovering our meals, handiwork, and the joy of making a house a place of nourishment and recovery.While also forming character, responsibility, and the quiet confidence that comes from doing real things well.
Real Transformation: What You'll Learn
01
Practical
Mastery
Real, usable skills: sourdough, fermentation, knife work, fire starting, and more. Skills they’ll use for life.
02
Personal
Responsibility
Through projects, rituals, and a badge system, students develop ownership, discipline, and genuine pride in their work.
03
Cultural
Grounding
A renewed appreciation for traditional values, the dignity of homemaking, and the joy of creating a productive household.
Real Home Economy
A Different Kind of Home Ec
This is not a cute craft class.
This is not a worksheet-based elective.
This is not nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake.Homestead Home Ec is a full-year practical skills course designed to help teenagers recover the lost arts of home, hearth, field, and workshop.Students learn by doing: chopping, fermenting, preserving, sewing, building, planning, serving, repairing, and working with their hands.The course combines traditional home economics, homesteading, household stewardship, outdoor capability, and practical self-reliance.The program is designed for kids young adults.The tracks include cooking from scratch, fermentation, food preservation, herbal home skills, sewing, fire building, knife handling, knots, carpentry, preparedness, budgeting, pantry systems, and capstone projects.
Year One
Foundations
Nourishing Kitchen
Cooking from scratch, knife skills, bone broth, sourdough, soaking, sprouting, raw milk skills, and fermentation.
Preservation & Pantry
Canning, dehydrating, freezing, pantry organization, root cellar concepts, and emergency food planning.
Home Provision
Natural body care, soap, candles, lip balm, deodorant, toothpaste, tallow balm, herbal salves, and household cleaners.
Hearth & Hospitality
Meal planning, table setting, hosting, family meals, celebration dinners, serving, thank-you notes, and community care.
Field, Fire & Tools
Fire building, outdoor cooking, knife safety, hatchet safety, knots, cordage, first aid, map and compass, and preparedness.
Workshop & Stewardship
Basic carpentry, tool identification, measuring and cutting, mending, budgeting, household systems, frugality, and resourcefulness.
Real Experience
A Regular Class Day
Each class day may include:
skill instruction
safety training
hands-on project work
notebook entries
demonstration
shared meal or tasting
cleanup and stewardship
discussion
take-home practice
badge or skill progress
Students do not just watch. They participate.
Real Growth
What Makes This Course Different
Homestead Home Ec is built on three convictions:
1. Teens are capable of more than we often ask of them.
Young people rise when they are trusted with meaningful work.
2. Home skills are life skills.
Cooking, budgeting, preserving, mending, organizing, and hosting are not “extras.” They are part of becoming a useful adult.
3. Confidence comes through practice.
Students become more confident when they use real knives, real tools, real ingredients, real fire, and real responsibility in a safe, guided setting.
Real Connection
For Parents
Many teens are academically busy but practically unprepared.They may know how to complete assignments, but not how to prepare a meal, preserve food, mend clothing, build a fire, use tools safely, plan a pantry, serve guests, or manage household resources.Homestead Home Ec helps close that gap.This course gives your teen guided practice in the skills that make a young person more useful, confident, mature, and prepared for real life.
"This program gave my daughter something real to be proud of. She talks about fermentation like it’s the coolest thing in the world. I’m so grateful."
@caycepollard
"My son went from barely helping in the kitchen to making his own sourdough and teaching his younger siblings. The change in his confidence has been profound."
@bobbynewmark
"The combination of practical skills and thoughtful discussion about modern life vs. traditional values has been exactly what our family needed. Highly recommend."
@annlewis
Ready to give your teen
something real?
Limited spots available.
Small cohorts ensure personal attention and strong community.
Real Growth
FAQs
What ages can attend?
We are currently working with all K-12 students. We will have age appropriate activities and modified curriculum for all age groups.
Is there a paid version?
Yes! We are working on the details.
Is there an online option?
Hopefully. We've had requests from all over Colorado. We are working on hybrid and online options.
Where are the classes located?
See our When & Where section below.
Real Growth
When & Where
We're meeting in D49!
Falcon Baptist Church
11095 Eggar Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80831(this is about a 15 min drive from Powers)
In-Person
Tuesdays
9a-3p
August 25, 2026 - June 1, 2027
Online Option
Must attend live stream.
Tuesdays
9a-3p
August 25, 2026 - June 1, 2027
Real Home
Homestead Home Ec
Traditional Living for Modern Life
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