Urban Homesteading & Practical Prepping Retreat Weekend

Come and spend a full weekend with Root & Ridge Homestead at Mama’s Magic & Mojo Shop in Leyland, Lancashire, learning all about Urban Homesteading & Practical Prepping! We’ll spend the weekend exploring practical ways to become more self-sufficient, resourceful and prepared, with plenty of hands-on activities, new skills to learn and goodies that you’ll make and take home with you too!

From growing, preserving and making more of the things we use at home, to food storage, household preparedness and useful skills for dealing with everyday disruptions and emergencies, the weekend is all about making homesteading and prepping realistic for ordinary UK homes. You don’t need acres of land, a huge garden or a cupboard filled with emergency supplies to get started!

Our retreat weekend includes lunch and afternoon tea on both days, with drinks available throughout the weekend. Mama’s Magic & Mojo will be closed to customers, so we’ll have the whole shop to ourselves to learn, make, chat and spend the weekend together! Tickets are strictly limited to 16 places only!

Saturday 28th November 9am - 7pm to Sunday 29th November 9am-7pm. The retreat is for 2 days. For local places to stay overnight please contact us for a list. Thank you.

You'll be doing the following:

SATURDAY - URBAN HOMESTEADING

⭐️ Learn what homesteading is and learn the difference between homesteading and prepping and how the 2 work together

⭐️ Learn the basic tools and equipment needed for urban homesteading

⭐️ Learn why a Homesteading & Prepping Planner is so useful and see how I use mine, we'll be using it all through the weekend too!

⭐️ Learn why practical skills can be just as important as the things you own

⭐️ Learn which foods are worth stockpiling and why

⭐️ Learn about food rationing and portion planning

⭐️ Learn how to calculate how long your household food stores will last

⭐️ Learn how to plan 3-day, 7-day, 14-day and 30-day emergency food supplies

⭐️ Learn how to stretch meals using inexpensive pantry staples

⭐️ Learn how to rotate food, water and household supplies

⭐️ Learn how to store dry foods safely and successfully for the long term

⭐️ Learn how to cook without electricity

⭐️ Learn about different food preservation methods and when each one is useful. Picking, drying, freezing, jams, chutneys etc.

⭐️ Learn about dehydrating food and how to store it

⭐️ Learn about freezing food for longer-term storage

⭐️ Learn about traditional food preservation methods

⭐️ Learn about different ways to preserve eggs

⭐️ Learn about preserving dairy products

⭐️ Learn how to make complete meals that can be shelf stable for up to 2 years

⭐️ Make your own dried soup mix

⭐️ Make your own basic bread mix

⭐️ Learn how to save seeds from supermarket fruit and vegetables

⭐️ Learn about heirloom seeds and how to run an heirloom seed library

⭐️ Learn about foraging throughout the seasons

⭐️ Learn about UK foraging laws and what you can and cannot legally collect

⭐️ Learn about useful wild medicinal plants

⭐️ Learn about herbal first aid

⭐️ Learn how to build and manage a useful home apothecary

⭐️ Make your own herb salt

⭐️ Make your own herbal tummy tea

⭐️ Make your own healing salve

⭐️ Make your own headache rollerball

⭐️ Learn old-fashioned stain removal and clothing care

⭐️ Learn how to wash clothes without electricity

⭐️ Make your own washing detergent

⭐️ Make your own antibacterial hand sanitiser

⭐️ Make your own skin-safe insect repellent

SUNDAY - PRACTICAL PREPPING & HOUSEHOLD RESILIENCE

⭐️ Create a 7-day emergency food plan using shelf-stable foods

⭐️ Take part in the £20 Emergency Pantry Challenge

⭐️ Learn how to cook during an emergency and conserve fuel

⭐️ Learn how much emergency water your household needs and how to store and rotate it

⭐️ Learn different emergency water treatment methods and their limitations

⭐️ Learn what a 72-hour emergency box is and what yours should contain

⭐️ Learn what a Bug Out Bag (BOB) is, when you might need one and what belongs in it

⭐️ Learn about first aid, medication and preparing for the individual needs of your household and pets

⭐️ Learn about prepping with babies and small children

⭐️ Learn about prepping for neurodivergent adults and children

⭐️ Learn about prepping on a low income

⭐️ Learn how to prepare for a power cut

⭐️ Learn how to keep warm without central heating

⭐️ Learn different ways to start and maintain a fire

⭐️ Make simple wax firelighters from recycled materials

⭐️ Make a simple emergency oil lamp

⭐️ Learn about radio communications and the different options available during an emergency

⭐️ Learn where to find emergency radio broadcasts and reliable UK emergency information

⭐️ Learn how to create a family communication plan for when normal communications are disrupted

⭐️ Learn how to make a household emergency plan

⭐️ Learn how to establish emergency meeting points if household members become separated

⭐️ Identify strengths and gaps in your own household preparedness

⭐️ Learn how everyday homesteading skills can help during emergencies and longer disruptions

⭐️ Learn about common prepping mistakes and how to avoid them

⭐️ Take part in our Household Resilience Challenge and work out how you'd manage food, water, cooking, warmth, hygiene, medication, pets and communication during an emergency

⭐️ Learn about toilets and sanitation in a SHTF situation

⭐️ Learn how a prepping community can pool resources, knowledge and practical skills during a SHTF situation

⭐️ Learn the different skills and roles needed within a prepping community

⭐️ Discover what skills and knowledge you could contribute to a prepping community

BOTH DAYS

⭐️ Full notes that cover both days!

⭐️ Lunch and afternoon tea will be from a homesteading and prepping point of view, you will be well fed and watered both days!

Your Investment

2 TICKET TYPES

£200 per person (Installments available via Klarna) - includes everything you need to make your items, lunch (vegetarian options available, please let us know in advance if you need this), afternoon tea and drinks all day on both days.

OPTIONAL Homesteading & Prepping Planner - £40 per person. You will receive a version of the Root & Ridge planner at the retreat, you can add this to your order when you book your place!

Location:
Mama's Magic & Mojo Shop
15 Golden Hill Lane
Leyland
Lancashire
PR25 3NP

What others say:
Please read our testimonials here > mamasmagicandmojo.co.uk/testimonials/

Background:

This workshop is being hosted by Sally at Root & Ridge Homestead. I am a barefoot in the grass, foraging, natural living, homesteading, nature-loving, family girl. I am an urban micro-homesteader, forager, and qualified complementary therapist. I am a qualified life coach, business coach, nutritionist, flower remedy practitioner, and many other natural therapies, and nature is the key to everything I do. I love to forage, scratch cook, bake, preserve, make herbal medicine and skincare and run as much as possible without preservatives and other chemicals in my family’s life. My husband and I have shared values both on a family level and an ethos towards nature. We have 3 beautiful children and an amazingly awesome grandson, who truly loves nature. He loves to collect sticks and paddle in brooks and rivers wherever possible! My husband is my biggest champion, and vice versa. Being half Creole myself and him marrying into a Creole family, scratch cooking and spicy food sits extremely well with my love of growing various types of chilli plants!

We are a family with various illnesses and we have found that it is best for our bodies that we live as naturally as possible. When I was 19 years old, I had meningitis which left me with encephalitis, acute fibromyalgia, Guillane Barre syndrome and having a series of mini strokes. This left me in a wheelchair and being told I would never walk, talk, work or have children. Since then I have also gained diabetes, adipsia, vertigo, retinopathy, neuropathy, an umbilical hernia and various other stuff! But… whilst I cannot walk very far at all (about 10m), I can talk, I have children and I work. And a lot of this is down to me being really stubborn, it is mostly down, I truly believe, to our homesteading lifestyle, as well as a whole heap of magic. For those who don’t know, I also own Mama’s Magic & Mojo. I spend most of my time in a wheelchair but I see this very much as a positive rather than a negative, because the wheels are my legs and it means I can still get about. I now teach homesteading and practical prepping for all kinds of situations and write books on both subjects published by Billrose Press.

I have had the honour and pleasure of writing for, being interviewed for, or working with some amazing companies, brands, and media over the years such as The BBC, The Daily Mail, Fox News, USA Today, Reuters, Sainsbury’s, ASDA, Marks & Spencer, The Natural & Organic Products Show, Ideal Home Show, The Walt Disney Corporation, Spirit & Destiny Magazine, Fate & Fortune Magazine and many, many more. I love collaborating with brands and businesses and love working with the media.

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