The Odd Gumnut's Guide to Radical Self-Reliance
What you'll learn
- Permaculture
- Growing food
- Organic farming
- DIY beauty & home products
- Sustainable lifestyle
- Responsible consumption
- Alternative healing
- Natural medicine
- Women's care
- Growing herbs
- Soap making
- Composting
- Sustainable Menstruation
- Conscious consumption
- Sustainability
- DIY products
- Nutrition
- Herbalism
- Chemical-free living
- Natural cosmetics
- Kombucha
- Natural Sodas
- Sourdough Bread
- Fermentation
- Composting Toilet
- Sustainable Living
- Zero waste
- Natural Beauty Care
- Greywater
Requirements
- Nothing at all! An open mind & willingness to learn, expand and experiment.
Description
Learn the skills for a sustainable lifestyle! Find freedom from wasteful and chemical systems by learning the basics of making compost & growing your own food (at any scale!), making all of your own home & beauty products and learning traditional food ways like fermentation, culturing and sprouting to make food your everyday preventative medicine. The environmental & health revolution beings at home, folks! At a community level, learn to engage in alternative economies, travel on a shoe-string, live minimally, set up zero-waste toilets & grey water systems, cook with wood on rocket ovens & stoves and so much more. For the women out there, learn sustainable mensuration, natural alternatives to hormonal birth control and all kinds of female-centered self-care.
Laura has taught thousands the skills for regenerative living online and in-person. Her teaching style is down to earth, fun and easy to understand. This course is for all levels! Total beginners will love the hands on & step by step learning. Go at your own pace and see the transformation of your life as you go from disempowered consumer to an ethical producer, creator and the inspiration of your community. In this course, we balance practical hands-on skills with ideological learnings on Permaculture, seed & farmers rights, GMOs, the food system, alternative economies and communities.
Who this course is for:
- Earth-loving people ready to take change into their own hands!
Instructor
Laura Christie Khanna is the owner of The Odd Gumnut Permaculture Farm in Panchgani, India. Her knowledge of the food system and regenerative agriculture comes from 12 years working across the field of food - from chef to activist to farmer. Laura is a certified Permaculture teacher and avid teacher of all things regenerative lifestyle. She has taught thousands of folks the skills to live more connected & more lightly on this earth, through in person and online workshops. She is also the cofounder of Rise Up Kombucha, India's only zero-waste kombucha brand.