2025-2026: Tuesday Homeschool Program
The general theme for 2025-2026 will be Self-Sufficiency and Markets. This will include learning how to meet their everyday needs through handmade and hand-grown products or through trading in markets. Products and skills could include knitting, sewing, building, woodcraft, arts, cooking/food preparation, the use of natural and local materials, and much more. The market aspect would include understanding the value of products, trading, packaging, marketing, communication, and everything else that would ensure a successful and fair market.
Within this theme, the program will be farm-, ecology-, and STEAM-based. It will incorporate activities and lessons that enable students to explore farming a wide variety of plants, as well as preparing and cooking much of this produce. Students will also learn how to harvest and prepare other resources on the farm and throughout the ecosystems. Being on the farm year-round will also give the students a sense of purpose, and they will be integral in helping grow food for food pantries.
In addition, students will explore the science of nature, which includes animals, plants, water systems, geology, weather, ecosystems, fire, biomimicry, and more. These lessons may include communication, adaptations, climate change, pollinators and bees, cooking skills and food uses, wild edible plants, dyes, structures of natural materials, natives and invasives, and so much more.
Every week will also include some sort of adventure activity, such as hiking, shelter building, orienteering, map-making, knot tying, and more.
Since these explorations will also be STEAM-based, students can expect to use literature, arts, math, engineering, and games to dive deeper into concepts as well as to express themselves. Students will often design solutions to problems presented in lessons or found throughout the farm.
The time on the farm will also be about socializing and following children’s interests. The lead teacher and education team will modify lessons based on these needs and interests, as well as create new ones.
Each child will be registered as part of an FHHF program.
Family Involvement
In addition to a weekly newsletter, families will be invited to participate in monthly markets or meals prepared by the groups. And if family members have specific skills in self-sufficiency they would like to share, we would love to create a space and time for that sharing.
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