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Homestead Skills

Have you dreamed of heading “back to the land” and creating your own homestead? Want to know what life on a real working homestead is like? Let us share our years of experience and knowledge, the result of trials and successes as you get a taste of wilderness homestead living. Whether you hope to have your own homestead, your own patio container garden, or are simply curious about the simpler life of Bush living, integrating a homestead skill into your vacation will leave you with a sense of peace and accomplishment.

Life on the homestead requires the marriage of many different skills, crafts, and disciplines. From gardening to carpentry, tracking animals to building animal pens and canning, we can break down life at the homestead into bite size lessons suited to your interests.

With projects of so many different sizes, we are constantly learning and experimenting. Join us, and leave your own mark on a remote, wilderness Alaska homestead.  Instruction and activities during your stay may include:

  • Identification, Harvesting, and Use of Alaska’s native plants
  • Axe hanging and tool maintenance
  • Spoon Carving​​
  • Lumber milling
  • Canning
  • Tracking
  • Birch Syrup Making
  • ​Gardening​ and planning
  • Hide Tanning

Upcoming Workshops & Events Include:

Homestead Garden: Planning, Planting, and Preparation June 1-7, 2019

Wild Alaska: Edible & Medicinal Plants June 16-22

Axe Hanging & Round Pen Build August 2-11, 2019

ABC: Adventures with Blueberries & Caribou August 25-31, 2019

Potential Projects

April

Birch Syrup Making
Prescribed Burning/Swidden Agriculture
Seed Starting
Wild Green Harvest and Preservation
Wild Medicinal Harvest

May

Prescribed Burning & Swidden Agriculture
Pasture and Airstrip Improvement
Garden Planting
Birch Syrup Making
Edible and Medicinal Plant Collection & Preparation

June

Prescribed Burning
Planting
Plant Harvesting
Edible and Medicinal Plant Collection/Preparation
Summer Kitchen Construction
Begin Cabin Extension
Airstrip Improvement

July

Wild Hay Making
Firewood Collection
Edible and Medicinal Plant Collection/Preparation
Harvest
Canning
Continue Cabin Extension
Permanent Fence Construction

August

Berry Collecting
Canning
Firewood Collection
Edible and Medicinal Plant Collection
Harvest
Fishing​
Miscellaneous Construction & Improvements

September

Final Harvest
​Canning
Putting the Garden to Bed
Firewood Collection
Edible and Medicinal Plant Collection
Mushroom Foraging​
​Winter Preparation

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In addition to visiting our beautiful location, we offer a variety of adventures and experiences unique to our remote setting.

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Contact Information

Mailing Address: PO Box 272 Talkeetna AK 99676

Email: info@apricityalaska.com​

Kind words

Margaret and Morgan were excited to teach me new skills and are more than willing to cater to what you are interested in. The landscape is pretty hard to beat. The food was wonderful. Katie

Interested in Visiting?

Contact us at info@apricityalaska.com​ or fill out our interest form.

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