Introducing

Homestead Homeschool

Founding the “Homestead Homeschool” program has been a goal of the St. Isidore Foundation from its beginnings, but at first our idea was to offer this program only to the families immediately involved in the Foundation. We have now decided, however, to develop this program with our own children and then ultimately make it available to others. Therefore, the 2025-2026 academic year will be our primary development year as we begin compiling curricula and crafting lesson plans for homestead-based homeschooling. In keeping with the overall mission of the St. Isidore Foundation to integrate the academic and agrarian, the liberal and manual arts, Homestead Homeschool seeks to provide homesteading families with ideas and resources they can use to structure a homeschooling program around the work of the homestead. For instance, in places where homesteaders can make maple syrup (or syrup from other suitable trees), the processes of identifying suitable trees, tapping them, collecting their sap, and boiling their sap into syrup can provide the basis for a number of science projects introducing students to various aspects of biology, chemistry, and physics. For more information about—or ideas for—the Homestead Homeschool program, please feel free to contact us.