Prepper Essentials Intensive Workshop: Food Water Power (in 4 days)

➡ Marjorie Wildcraft introduces Stephanie Sison, who lives off-grid in Puerto Rico and runs the Caribbean Agroforestry Institute. They offer a four-day course at the end of January, teaching practical skills on how to design, install, and maintain a food producing system, build a rainwater catchment system, and a small solar system. The course is applicable to everyone, regardless of where they live, as the strategies remain the same.

Hey everyone, this is Marjorie Wildcraft, and if you want the essentials, okay? You want to get off-grid. You want food, you want water, and you want electricity. I got to introduce you to my friend, Stephanie Sison. Stephanie, you want to tell them what you got going on? Sure. We’re down here in Puerto Rico, in Comui, and we live off-grid on a 36-acre farm. We run the Caribbean Agroforestry Institute and do various trainings in agroforestry, permaculture, off-grid living. Herbalism, all kinds of stuff, and this January, at the end of the month, we’ve got a four-day intensive talking about off-grid growing, a lot of focus on real hands-on practical skills of how you design, install, maintain a food producing system, both here in the tropics and in temperate regions.

In addition, we’ll be covering a thorough hands-on how to build a rainwater catchment system, as well as a small solar system. From start to finish, we’ll design it, build it, install it, and talk about maintenance issues on all those systems. A real complete course on how you take care of the essentials for you and your family. So bam, in four days, you can really gain real skills from people who are totally living this. So what exactly are those dates? That’s a very good question. Let me look them up, and you’re going to have to edit that in.

I’ll have to edit that one. I’ll ask you that question again. Okay, hold on one second, I’ll pull it up. Stephanie, when is this course exactly? It’s this January 23rd through 27th. Let’s say I’m somebody who’s in Colorado, or Oregon, or some crazy other place that’s not Puerto Rico. Is this going to be applicable to me? This is going to be applicable to everyone. While we’ll be installing the system in a tropical environment, and we’ll be utilizing a lot of tropical plants, obviously, the strategies are the same, no matter where you live.

It’s just that we’re going to be doing it a little bit different hands-on, but we’ll discuss temperate climates as well. I grew for 12 years in Colorado. We’ve got various teachers that grow in Montana and different places around the world. So the skill set is the same. The principles are the same. We’ll just be hands-on working with a different strategy. We’ll also discuss places that are wet, like we are in Puerto Rico, so applicable to the northeast, and then we’ll be discussing dry land strategies in addition to that. So while we’ll be doing berms and swales to hold water and let go of water with a certain style here in Puerto Rico, we’ll discuss how you might change the angle or the size or the dimensions of those swales based on your personal environment.

We also welcome students to bring, if they’re working on a current project, if they want to bring the drawings, the site plans, the Google images of those sites, we’re going to have a session that’s open where we’re going to discuss the student’s individual projects and give critiques and advice that they can take home and implement in their space specifically. So this is amazing. I’ve done a lot of courses with Stephanie. I’ve either taught or participated. We’ve known each other for almost a decade now. She’s the real deal. And you need to get skilled in producing food, collecting water, and hooking up your power system.

This is it, four days. And just to set people’s expectations, this is going to be you have on-site camping and you have meals. So you’ll be served 12 to 15 organic farm fresh meals on-site by our awesome cooks. You will have camping on-site with spring water showers and all of that. It is tent camping. It’s a B-Y-O-B or B-Y-O-T. Bring your own tent or hammock. Some students will choose to get an Airbnb nearby and that’s fine as well. But most of the students will end up camping on-site. So there you go. So what link do they need to go to? They need to go to the I hope to see you there.

This is going to be fantastic, especially if you want to get skilled up really fast by people who do it and have a great time. I highly recommend Stephanie’s course. Thanks Marjorie. All right, you’re going to actually be taller than I am. Okay. Here, I can come down a little. How’s that? All right. It’s rolling. Well, then you just went down. Well, I know what you’d be like behind me. All right. [tr:trw].