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Building a HIllside Homestead
145 students

Building a HIllside Homestead

Join the Journey
Created byDaniel Cortes
Last updated 1/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Define the roles and responsibilities of a homesteader
  • Prioritize tasks on the homestead via the four objectives of 1. Food, 2. Shelter, 3. Water, 4. Energy
  • Identify and manage challenges
  • Manage an off-grid property from beginning to end

Course content

3 sections • 9 lectures • 1h 48m total length

  • Introduction3:51

    Follow an off-grid hillside homestead journey toward food, water, energy, and shelter through regenerative agriculture, permaculture, with high tunnels on two acres.

  • Welcome to My 2-Acre Off-Grid Homestead!13:41

    Develop an off-grid two-acre homestead by building food, energy, water, and shelter systems while tackling erosion, terraces, and maintenance through hands-on, family-focused practice.

  • Operating Under Inflation and Bio-reactors15:56

    Navigate inflation-driven budget constraints while building a hillside homestead, focusing on bioreactors for composting and a half tool shed walk-in cooler to protect crops.

  • Daniel Talking Seeds40:14

    Explore seed value, open pollinated and hybrid seeds, and how to save, trade, and organize a hillside homestead seed stock for resilient, self-sufficient gardening.

  • My New Efficient Firewood Technique and Sawdust Shack10:07

    The lecture demonstrates an improvised firewood-cutting jig and plans to improve a sawdust shed using scrap lumber, pocket holes, and simple construction.

Requirements

  • No prerequisites

Description

Online training and community for people seeking self reliance through modern farming and homesteading practices. This course takes you on a journey with the instructor as he builds his hillside homestead. Experience the adventure, the challenges, trials and tribulations and even the payoff of developing an off-grid, hillside homestead. In this course you will learn proper fire mitigation for your forest, you will learn how to best decide how many acres of land you are ready to take on. Topics will include water catchment, earthworks, well-drilling, energy independence, food production, livestock and animal husbandry and so much more. Prepare yourself for the hardest decision you will ever make in your life and the most rewarding one. This course will spare you a lot of mental, physical and financial heartache and assist you in quickly reaping the rewards of homestead living. Join your instructor, Daniel Cortes as he embarks in the most challenging decision anyone can ever make in their life. Here’s to the preppers. The outsiders. The old souls. The organic eaters. The ones with dirt under their nails.

They’re not your average civilians, and they reject the status-quo. You can mock them, praise them, hate them, or misunderstand them. But the only thing you can’t do is live without them.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in becoming a homesteader

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