Learn to provide yourself with the basic goods and services required to live; and gain a perspective on the broad range of alternative lifestyles that you might lead.
E-Learning Structure
The content of each of the ten lessons is as outlined below:-
- Introduction
- Health, Nutrition and Clothing
- Horticulture – Fruit and Vegetables
- Horticulture – Herbs
- Animal Husbandry – Poultry and Bees
- Animal Husbandry – Grazing Animals and Pigs
- Building
- Energy
- Craft and Country Skills
- Making Decisions
Course Aims
- Identify essential and non-essential services offered by society
- Identify services that one can be self sufficient with
- Identify self skills that can aid in self sufficiency
- Obtain skills that can be developed to assist in self sufficiency
- Identify needs, wants and likes; and the purpose of prioritising needs
- Identify items one can provide for oneself
- Develop cost efficient meals
- Identify purpose of fitness to self sufficiency
- Plan a food garden
- Identify crops plants most suited to a persons locality that assist in self sufficiency
- Explain the use of bees hives, poultry and other animals for self sufficiency
- Estimate carrying capacity of a piece of land for animal stocking
- Describe multipurpose animal stocking and their uses
- Consider energy alternative techniques such as wind, solar, water fire, etc.
- Reduce present energy usage
- Candle making
- Cloth and garment making processes
- Practice food preservation techniques
- Practice handicraft techniques
- Identify criteria when planning to set up a self sufficient lifestyle in a new location
- Identify criteria on how to improve self sufficiency in present location
How Does A Warnborough Online Course Work?
You can start the course whenever is convenient for you. You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
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