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Requirements:
Old School Kool (Intro to Homesteading)
Daisies complete 3
Brownies complete 4
Juniors complete 5
CSA complete 7
1. Sewing/Crocheting/Knitting Compare/Contrast the 3. Decide which interests you the most and try your hand at making something.
2. Preserving—Freezing/Canning/Dehydrating Look up these traditional methods and decide if they have changed over the years. Why do you believe this is? Pick 1 ways of the following and then preserve the suggestion or something else of your choice: Canning—Fridge pickles (but not pickles made from cucumbers) Freezing—Vacuum seal/Ziplock Dehydration—Fruit Leather
3. Gardening/Compost Learn about native plants and various ways to compost. Visit a local garden/greenhouse/botanic garden. While there, find out what type of compost they have, what types of native plants they have, and any other types of permaculture they use.
4. Soap Making—Body, Laundry, House, Dish Where did the history of soap making begin? Who said “soap is the yardstick of civilization” and what did they mean? Investigate the different types of soap (ex. glycerin, transparent, liquid) and see if you can make your own soap to use at home.
5. Wood/Chopping/Splitting/Fire starting/Heating home Find out about the history of how people in cold climates stayed warm and investigate 3 specific inventions that helped this goal. Build a fire using one of the more primitive methods you discover.
6. Hunting/Butchering What are hunting seasons? How do they impact local homesteaders? What are some of the most popular hunting methods? After hunting, what do you do with the animal(s)? Visit a butcher shop and find out the process of “cleaning the animal”. How would you feel if you had to do the butcher’s job?
7. Tools/Basic mechanics/HAM Create a list of every tool you think a homesteader would need to have. Compare your list to a friends/troop members. Use the internet to help you improve this list. Can some tools serve multiple purposes? Which can be made by the homesteader and which must be purchased? What other tools could make a homesteaders life easier even if they're not necessary?
8. Animal Husbandry/Chicken and Bees What's the difference between having a pet and animal husbandry? Find out how humans first started to positively interact with animals. Visit a local animal place like a chicken coop, kept bee hive, or goat farm, etc.
9. Water Storage What is the importance of storing water? Do we still use water storage techniques in modern society? Examine local and national laws regarding water storage before building your own simple (or complex) water collection and storage system.
10.Baking/Bread Why do so many cultures around the world have their own types of bread? Find out how these different types developed and what impact they had on their respective societies. Bake a type of bread you've never had before.
11. Live without technology Find out more information about the Amish cultures and their unique approach to adopting modern technology. Spend a length of time not using electricity or battery powered devices. **Brownies:24 hours/Juniors:48 Hours/CSA:72 Hours**
12.Bartering Read about the United States Federal Reserve and how it influences currency in the United States. Then, try your hand at developing a better/different system of exchange.
