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Heritage Skills Training

Pioneer Spirit

What kind of personal spirit did it take to prosper in the 1800's and early 1900's?
How did anyone develop the mental fortitude to survive in such difficult circumstances?
Just consider for a moment, awakening in the pre-dawn darkness, the glass of water on your bedside table is frozen solid as your room temperature is below freezing, there is no electricity and the only heat available is a wood burning stove, ...if you get up and build a fire. It will be at least an hour before you have hot water for a cup of tea, or to brush your teeth and bathe.
How do you nurture your new born babe? How do you motivate your older children to get up, dressed, and walk a country mile to school, ....in a snowstorm?
Your husband and children will need a good breakfast, and packed lunches, to help them work and learn this day.
It takes a special kind of spirit, a positive mental attitude, a desire to make things better, to improve your situation. It's a feeling of confidence and pride in overcoming all obstacles, of building a better life for yourself and your family.
It is not just to survive, but to improve and conquer with comfort and grace.
It takes a Pioneer Spirit.
Your Parents, Grandparents, or Great-grandparents had a Pioneer Spirit.
Come and visit the Old Grist Mill for a couple of hours or a couple of days, and discover your own Pioneer Spirit.

Heritage Skills Training

Our Grandparents lived a comfortable life and provided for themselves without electricity, running water, or any of the so-called modern conveniences.

How about you? Would you like to grow and preserve some of your own fresh food?

What about the possibility of a severe storm or small earthquake? Could you survive, in reasonable comfort, without electricity or water for two or three weeks?

Would you like to learn, in a fun, easy pace, hands-on environment:

-how to grow and preserve some of your own food?

-how to grind wheat into flour and bake bread in a wood-burning stove?

-how to camp and cook over an open fire or use a portable gas stove?

-how to survive in some comfort after an earthquake or severe storm?

-how to sew heritage clothing and quilts?

-how to build wood furniture with no-electricity hand tools?

-how to use solar energy to preserve and cook foods?

-how to make a old-tyme straw hat?

Are there any other Heritage Skills you would like to learn?

If you are interested in these, or any other Heritage Skills, please contact us at Info @OldMillGardens.ca

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Planting the Wheat .....Ready to Harvest