Heritage Club 2027
Come Experience Homesteading. Leave Knowing You Can Do It.
One Club. Six Months. Skills for a Lifetime.
Get Your Hands Dirty. Grow Together. Cook Together. Eat Together. Learn Together.
Have you ever wondered what it’s really like to live a homesteading lifestyle? Not the picture-perfect version you see on social media, but the real, everyday work of growing food, raising animals, preserving the harvest, and feeding your family from what you’ve produced?
Well, come on over! I’d love to show you!
For over 20 years, our family has been learning, growing, and building a more self-sufficient life here in Northern Michigan. Today, we raise approximately 85% of our own food using organic practices.
And we’re doing it above the 45th parallel, where our growing season is short, our winters are LONG, and Mother Nature certainly keeps things interesting!
If we can do it here, there’s a whole lot you can do right where you are, too.
And that’s exactly what I want to share with you.
Real Homesteading. Real Life. Real Confidence.
One of our 2026 participants shared:
“I learned so much from simple seed starting to pressure canning and all the ins and outs in between and how to get my kids involved and able to help. I highly recommend this class it will open your eyes and let you know that you can do it too.” – Megan 2026 Heritage Club Member
That’s what it’s all about. Helping you realize you CAN do this, one skill at a time.
Our Heritage Club is a six-month, in-person experience where you’ll come right onto our working homestead and learn alongside us.
Our 2027 Heritage Club Dates
We’ll gather for six Saturdays, once a month, from May through October.
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| Saturday, May 8, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
| Saturday, June 12, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
| Saturday, July 10, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
| Saturday, August 7, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
| Saturday, September 11, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
| Saturday, October 9, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
Location: Our working homestead in Vanderbilt, Northern Michigan.
That’s 36 hours of in-person learning, growing, cooking, eating, and experiencing homestead life together!
Dates are planned for 2027. Daily start and end times and specific activities will be confirmed.
No fancy presentations. No Pinterest-perfect expectations. No complicated systems that make you wonder why you ever wanted to homestead in the first place!
Just real-life skills, practical experience, good food, great company, and plenty of opportunities to get your hands dirty.
Because homesteading doesn’t have to be overwhelming. It just has to work for YOU.
NOW REGISTERING FOR HERITAGE CLUB 2027!
Six Saturdays. Six months. A whole lot of old-fashioned skills!
Our 2026 Heritage Club sold out, and we’re excited to welcome a new group to the homestead in 2027!
Join us on our Northern Michigan homestead for six months of hands-on learning, from gardening and food preservation to herbs, beekeeping, cooking from scratch, raising animals, and building a practical pantry.
REGISTER BY DECEMBER 31, 2026, AND SAVE $345!
Early Registration Tuition: $1,050
Regular 2027 Tuition: $1,395
Reserve your place with a $300 non-refundable deposit, which is applied toward your tuition.
Register with your deposit by December 31 to lock in the $1,050 early registration price.
Payment Options:
Pay the remaining balance by April 1, 2027, or choose our three-payment plan with an additional 5% fee.
Enrollment includes the complete six-month Heritage Club experience, not individual classes.
Limited enrollment — come experience homesteading with us!
Slow Down. Get Your Hands Dirty. Experience Homesteading.
One of our past participants described the Heritage Club as:
“Full immersion into a slower simplified northern Michigan homesteading”
And I think that sums it up beautifully!
We’re not racing through a checklist of projects or trying to cram a lifetime of knowledge into one afternoon.
We’re taking the time to experience the lifestyle.
Planting in the garden. Working with animals. Cooking over an open fire. Preserving the harvest. Preparing meals together. Sitting around the table and enjoying the food we’ve made.
Learning that homesteading doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming.
It’s about slowing down, learning practical skills, and finding a little more freedom in the way we live and feed our families.
This Isn’t Just Another Class. It’s an Experience!
One of the things I love most about the Heritage Club is that we get to spend real time together.
Not just an hour here or there.
SIX gatherings. SIX hours each. THIRTY-SIX hours together!
Over six months, you’ll get to see the homestead change with the seasons, from spring planting and new growth to summer abundance and preparing for another Northern Michigan winter.
We’ll work together, cook together, eat together, share stories, ask questions, make mistakes, laugh, and learn.
You’ll see what works for us, what we’ve learned the hard way, and how we’ve simplified things over the years.
And yes, we’ll get dirty!
This is hands-on learning, not just watching someone else do the work.
You’ll walk away with practical skills, greater confidence, and hopefully a few new friendships along the way.
From the Garden to the Table — Together!
We Don’t Just Grow Food. We Prepare It, Cook It, and Eat It Together!
One of my favorite parts of our Heritage Club gatherings is the time we spend in the kitchen and around the table.
Every month, we’ll prepare and enjoy lunch together, using seasonal ingredients and foods from our homestead whenever available.
Depending on the season, that might mean fresh vegetables straight from the garden, ingredients we’ve preserved from previous harvests, or something we’ve made completely from scratch. We’ll also do some cooking outside.
And here’s the fun part — you’re helping make it!
We’ll chop, mix, cook, taste, and learn together. I’ll share how I take simple ingredients and turn them into meals without making things complicated or feeling like I have to follow a recipe perfectly.
Because that’s another part of food independence — knowing how to make good food with what you have!
Then we’ll sit down together, enjoy what we’ve prepared, share stories, ask questions, and probably have a few good laughs.
No rushing through lunch to get back to class. This is part of the experience!
Six gatherings. Six homemade meals. And a whole lot of learning in between.
Lunch is included in your Heritage Club enrollment at every gathering.
After all, what’s the point of growing all this wonderful food if we don’t get to enjoy it together?
What Will We Be Learning?
The beauty of the Heritage Club is that we’re not trying to squeeze the entire homesteading lifestyle into one afternoon.
We have six months to explore how everything works together!
Specific hands-on activities will follow the seasons, weather, and what’s happening on the homestead. After all, this is REAL homesteading!
Growing Your Own Food
Learn how we start seeds, prepare our gardens, grow food organically, save seeds, and make the most of our short Northern Michigan growing season.
Raising Animals on the Homestead
See how we raise and manage our animals, including chickens, pigs, ducks and sheep. We’ll talk about everyday care, rotational grazing, fencing, and how livestock fits into our food-producing homestead.
Preserving the Harvest
From pressure canning to other methods of preserving food, we’ll explore how to make the harvest last well beyond the growing season.
Cooking From Scratch
We’re not just growing food. We’re learning how to turn it into meals!
We’ll spend time in the kitchen, preparing food together, using simple ingredients, and learning how to cook with what we have.
Herbs
Explore growing, harvesting, and using herbs, along with practical skills that help make everyday homesteading life a little simpler.
Planning, Preparing & Making It All Work
I’ll share our no-nonsense approach to homesteading, including the systems, shortcuts, and lessons we’ve learned over the years.
Homesteading Above the 45th Parallel
Yes, You CAN Grow Food in a Cold Climate!
One of the biggest things I hear is that people think their growing season is too short, their weather is too unpredictable, or their winters are too harsh.
Believe me, I understand!
Here in Northern Michigan, we deal with late frosts, short summers, and winters that can bring at times more than 200 inches of snow.
But that hasn’t stopped us from growing and raising approximately 85% of our own food organically.
Over the years, we’ve learned how to work WITH our climate instead of constantly fighting against it.
I’ll share the practical ways we plan, plant, grow, harvest, and preserve food so that our homestead continues feeding us throughout the year.
You don’t need a perfect climate to grow food.
You need to understand the climate you’ve been given and learn how to work with it.
And that’s something we’ll explore together throughout the Heritage Club.
Our 2027 Heritage Club Dates
We’ll gather for six Saturdays, once a month, from May through October.
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| Saturday, May 8, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
| Saturday, June 12, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
| Saturday, July 10, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
| Saturday, August 7, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
| Saturday, September 11, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
| Saturday, October 9, 2027 | 10 am – 4pm |
Location: Our working homestead in Vanderbilt, Northern Michigan.
That’s 36 hours of in-person learning, growing, cooking, eating, and experiencing homestead life together!
Dates are planned for 2027. Daily start and end times and specific activities will be confirmed.
Who Is the Heritage Club For?
You don’t need to have a homestead to join us.
You don’t need to own acres of land, have a barn full of animals, or know the first thing about pressure canning.
Maybe you’re dreaming about someday having your own homestead.
Maybe you already grow a garden but want to do more.
Maybe you want to involve your children in growing and preparing real food.
Or maybe you simply want to learn some of those old-fashioned skills that used to be passed down from generation to generation.
Wherever you’re starting, you’re welcome to come learn.
My goal isn’t to show you how to do everything exactly like we do. It’s to help you discover what works for YOU and your family.
One Club. One Complete Experience.
The 2027 Heritage Club is offered as one complete six-month experience.
Why?
Because homesteading isn’t a collection of unrelated projects. Everything connects!
What we plant in the spring becomes what we harvest in the summer, preserve in the fall, and enjoy around the table throughout the winter.
By spending six months together, you’ll have the opportunity to experience those connections firsthand.
Rather than registering for individual workshops, you’ll be part of the entire journey.
2027 Early Registration
- Early registration tuition: $1,050
- Regular 2027 tuition: $1,395
- Save $345 when you register by December 31, 2026.
- Reserve your place with a $300 non-refundable deposit applied toward tuition.
- Payment options available.
Reserve Your Place in the 2027 Heritage Club
Come Grow With Us!
I truly believe there’s something special about learning these skills together.
Getting our hands into the soil. Gathering around the kitchen table. Sharing a meal we’ve prepared. Watching something grow that we planted months before.
And realizing that these old-fashioned skills are still just as valuable today as they ever were.
You don’t have to do everything.
You don’t have to have it all figured out.
You just have to be willing to start.
I’d love to have you join us on the homestead in 2027!
Old-Fashioned Ways in a Modern World.
Laura Lawrence | Food Prood
Hands-on, immersive, and unforgettable—this is the homestead lifestyle, experienced season by season.
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