Family Farmstead Workshop, August 4-6

Has your family desired to learn how to have a more self-sustainable, frugal family lifestyle, while at the same time seeing improvements in your family food choices through simpler, healthier, organic living?


Our new Family Farmstead:  the "Suburban Farmette" - a Beginner's guide to Sustainable Living with Smaller (or even tiny!) Yards will help you  not only see the wisdom of eating as God intended, but will also give you the foundation needed to raise and prepare your own organic vegetables, fruits and berries, and honey, as well as grass-based meat, eggs, and dairy products on a very small piece of property (or even in your backyard!!).  Topics will include organic gardening, small-scale dairying, backyard poultry, bees, rabbits, composting, worm beds, farmstead cheeses and soapmaking, and marketing your extra products!

This practical, hands-on class will be a fun time of exploring the concept of old-fashioned family farmsteading, realizing the great need to produce food that is both nourishing and economical, and learning how to be good stewards of our land, our time, and our resources. 

Come and have an enjoyable time of fellowship with other families as you learn not only how to work together as a family producing your own food but also the rewards of drawing closer together once you go home as you work and fellowship as a family team to achieve a more self-sustaining lifestyle.

This two and one half day workshop will teach you the basics you will need to  know to learn how to begin gardening organically, raise clean, healthy meat, eggs, and dairy products, produce your own cheeses and butter, and learn how to turn your excess products into cottage-industry opportunities for extra family income.

Family Homestead: the "Suburban Farmette" will be held on August 4 - 6, 2014, (Monday evening through Wednesday) at the Heritage Ministry Center in Madison, TN (Nashville area), with a field trip scheduled to a local family-run goat dairy/farmstead cheese plant in the area.  

This is a workshop for the entire family!  The cost will be $125 per family.  On-site family-friendly hotel rooms will be available at $55 per room each night (rooms sleep up to five).  All meals starting with Monday dinner and through Wednesday lunch will be included in the room rates for those staying on-site.  (A meal ticket option will be available for drive-in attendees - sign up when you make your class reservations.)

For more information, or to make reservations, please call (615) 865-4300 or (615) 636-2144 or email us at:  heritageministrycenter@gmail.com


 Heritage Ministry Center, 612 Due West Ave., Madison, Tennessee, 37115
                    Phone: (615) 865-4300   or   (615) 636-2144  
                      Email:  heritageministrycenter@gmail.com