Do you want to learn how you can provide your needs on your own? Search no more, this online self sufficiency course will teach you exactly that! This course will teach you all the important skills and knowledge you need to start being self-sufficient, such as how to start being one, how to live a balanced lifestyle, how to grow fruits and vegetables, the way to cultivate herbs, how to make mud bricks, and much more.
This course covers the basics of self sufficiency – how to change your thinking to meet the demands of a self – sufficient lifestyle – from personal health through to providing your own basic daily needs. It shows you what is realistic and what is not. Self sufficiency is gaining renewed and wide interest as self-reliance and sustainability become the key to the future world.
Become self-sufficient!
Online, self paced course
100 hours
Tutor support
Ten lessons develop your understanding of self sufficiency, food and nutrition, and making the right decisions about changes in lifestyle; as well as showing you how to do a whole range of practical activities.
Course Aims
Discuss the nature and scope of self sufficiency.
Explain the importance of good nutrition and health.
Explain the importance of suitable clothing and clothing care.
Explain the relevance and application of horticulture to self sufficiency.
Explain the cultivation and use of herbs.
Explain the main requirements for successfully raising animals.
Explain the fundamentals of caring for grazing animals.
Explain the available alternatives to eating meat.
Discuss various building techniques that can be used to construct buildings.
Discuss alternatives to conventional energy sources.
Determine and describe accessible craft and country skills that may contribute to self sufficiency.
Analyze potential changes in lifestyle to increase a person’s level of self-sufficiency.
Course Outline
There are 10 lessons in this course:
Understanding the possibilities
Understanding Modern Society and the Scope and Nature of Self Sufficiency
Do you want to learn how you can provide your needs on your own? Search no more, this online self sufficiency course will teach you exactly that! This course will teach you all the important skills and knowledge you need to start being self-sufficient, such as how to start being one, how to live a balanced lifestyle, how to grow fruits and vegetables, the way to cultivate herbs, how to make mud bricks, and much more.
This course covers the basics of self sufficiency – how to change your thinking to meet the demands of a self – sufficient lifestyle – from personal health through to providing your own basic daily needs. It shows you what is realistic and what is not. Self sufficiency is gaining renewed and wide interest as self-reliance and sustainability become the key to the future world.
Become self-sufficient!
Online, self paced course
100 hours
Tutor support
Ten lessons develop your understanding of self sufficiency, food and nutrition, and making the right decisions about changes in lifestyle; as well as showing you how to do a whole range of practical activities.
Course Aims
Discuss the nature and scope of self sufficiency.
Explain the importance of good nutrition and health.
Explain the importance of suitable clothing and clothing care.
Explain the relevance and application of horticulture to self sufficiency.
Explain the cultivation and use of herbs.
Explain the main requirements for successfully raising animals.
Explain the fundamentals of caring for grazing animals.
Explain the available alternatives to eating meat.
Discuss various building techniques that can be used to construct buildings.
Discuss alternatives to conventional energy sources.
Determine and describe accessible craft and country skills that may contribute to self sufficiency.
Analyze potential changes in lifestyle to increase a person’s level of self-sufficiency.
Course Outline
There are 10 lessons in this course:
Understanding the possibilities
Understanding Modern Society and the Scope and Nature of Self Sufficiency
