Free Homestead Courses
Canning, chickens, rabbits, cheese making and foraging safety — short lessons and a quiz, free for every member.
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Free courses in canning, backyard chickens, raising rabbits, cheese making and foraging safety, seasonal challenges that count from your own records, and live Q&A sessions with experienced homesteaders.
Challenges and Live Q&A
Seasonal challenges that count from your own records, and live question-and-answer sessions you can RSVP for.
This Season’s Challenge →Each challenge counts progress straight from your own records — no extra logging. Join with your own goal, and show your homestead on the leaderboard if you like.
Seed Saving Challenge
Save seed from your best plants and keep the good varieties going.
Each seed variety added to your seed box counts.
Create a free account to join.
Fall Canning Challenge
Fill the pantry shelves before frost. Every jar and package counts.
Jars and packages logged on Garden → Canning & pantry count.
Create a free account to join.
Eat From the Pantry Challenge
Cook from what you put up. Stretch the stores and use the oldest jars first.
Each meal logged with “We cooked this” in your Recipe Box counts.
Create a free account to join.
Spring Foraging Challenge
Get outside and learn the spring wild foods — greens, ramps, morels and more.
Each find logged in your foraging tracker counts.
Create a free account to join.
Summer Harvest Challenge
Weigh everything that comes out of the garden and orchard this summer.
Pounds logged as garden or orchard harvests count.
Create a free account to join.
Wood for Winter Challenge
Cut, split and stack next winter’s wood while the weather is kind.
Cords added to your wood piles (by cut or delivery date) count.
Create a free account to join.
Preparedness Month
September is National Preparedness Month. Work through the family readiness checklist.
Steps ticked on your Preparedness checklist count.
Create a free account to join.
Learning by Doing
Each course has short lessons you can read on your phone and a quiz at the end, and every lesson links to the free tools on PGAMO Homestead Living. Join a seasonal challenge with your own goal; progress fills in from the records you already keep. Bring your questions to a live session in the community groups. “The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.” — Proverbs 18:15