Earth Skills
Environmental Immersion 

Under the watchful eye of seasoned instructors, learn what it takes to provide for yourself from the environment with nothing more than a knife.

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Agricultural Design
Homestead Planning

Learn the tricks to achieve homestead abundance quickly through thoughtful planning, animal integration, and regenerative systems design. 

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Visit the Farm
Explore

Catch a glimpse at daily life on the farm while enjoying the abundance of integrated systems design.  Be surrounded by wildlife, explore wildcrafted gardens, and reconnect.

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Live with the Land
Intensives

Full immersion programs for wilderness skills, permaculture, homesteading, nature awareness, and self reliance. 

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WELCOME

The Sustainable Homestead Institute is an educational non-profit that inspires leaders in sustainable development through ecological land design and nature reliance education. Learn what it takes to create self-enriching abundant agricultural systems through environmental connection and ancestral skill immersion.

NEWS

April 9, 2024 - WDBJ7's Makalya Shelton visited the farm and learned some of the ways we are teaching others to live closer to nature.  Read the article and see the report here!

October 16, 2023 - We are proud to receive the 2023 Ridgeway's Award for Best Agricultural Service