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Become a Trainer
You'd be amazed at how many people don't know what you know. Let us help you put your know-how to work. We'll help you to create the workshop, teach you to run it, promote it, handle ticketing, facilities, and insurance, and then pay you to share your stuff with your neighbors. How sweet is that?
Why Workshops
School of Ranch workshops build practical homesteading skills like welding, construction, food preservation, and irrigation. They also cover topics end-to-end, like raising chickens and horses. Many people bought land here recently and want to build the skills they need to run a responsible homestead. Help them!
Topics
The range of possible workshops is endless:
- Welding (all types)
- Woodworking
- Metal fabrication
- Electrical
- Plumbing
- Hand and table power tools
- Chainsaw
- Irrigation
- Shed/Shop/Barn Building
- Working with cement
- Machinery/Engine Repair
- Fence building/repairing
- Roof repair
- Tractor skills
- Earth moving
- Raising chicken
- Raising bees
- Raising horses, goats, etc.
- Building and farming in greenhouse
- Cooking, canning and preserving food
Sharing The Revenue
If we book the facility, supply insurance, and supply necessary materials, you earn 25% of ticket sales. So if 8 people attend a three hour workshop and tickets are $100 each, you earn $200, $66 an hour. If you book the facility (it could be your house or shop), handle materials, and supply insurance, you earn 55% of the revenue. So in our example, you would earn $440 or $146 an hour.
Bob Baker
Beth Covert
Beth Covert
Bob has lived in Central Oregon for over 30 years. He grew up ranching near Bakersfield CA. Every summer his grandad would send him up into the mountains with the cattle, a horse, and a rifle and tell him stay there till the fall. Bob learned a lot. Fast. He served his country with distinction during the Vietnam War, and spent his car
Bob has lived in Central Oregon for over 30 years. He grew up ranching near Bakersfield CA. Every summer his grandad would send him up into the mountains with the cattle, a horse, and a rifle and tell him stay there till the fall. Bob learned a lot. Fast. He served his country with distinction during the Vietnam War, and spent his career working with the railroad. Bob never lost touch with the land and today has a spread outside of Redmond. Bob can advise on a number of topics including tractors and accessories, horses, cattle, lumbering, landscaping, water management, fire prevention, power tools and fence building and maintenance.
Beth Covert
Beth Covert
Beth Covert
Beth's life is one big experiment. Before leaving her artist career and moving here from Ohio six years ago, Beth studied up on desert gardening. On arrival, she became the garden department manager at a local retailer. When her suggestions to stock climate appropriate plants went nowhere, she started High&Dry GardenWorks, her own lab f
Beth's life is one big experiment. Before leaving her artist career and moving here from Ohio six years ago, Beth studied up on desert gardening. On arrival, she became the garden department manager at a local retailer. When her suggestions to stock climate appropriate plants went nowhere, she started High&Dry GardenWorks, her own lab for propagating plants that can thrive with limited water, excessive sun and wind, and deer. Under High&Dry, Beth is rehabbing her non-irrigated 10 acres with natives, maintaining her “Wildlife Habitat” and “Pollinator Pathway” certifications, and building bluebird nesting boxes. Beth says High&Dry is about making a difference, by sharing her failures as well as her successes.
Kaleb Watson
Kaleb Watson
Kaleb Watson
Kaleb grew up ranching and farming with his cowboy father, and over time became self-sufficient at home and ranch maintenance.
Kaleb spent six years in the Marine Corps, where he earned his teaching stripes as a pistol instructor.
After 6 years in the Marines, he began a career in construction. He learned welding, equipment maintenance,
Kaleb grew up ranching and farming with his cowboy father, and over time became self-sufficient at home and ranch maintenance.
Kaleb spent six years in the Marine Corps, where he earned his teaching stripes as a pistol instructor.
After 6 years in the Marines, he began a career in construction. He learned welding, equipment maintenance, basic mechanics, hydraulics and, most important to him, troubleshooting.
Kaleb has a drive to pass on his know-how and enjoys helping people build the skills he spent years acquiring.
Jeremy Allen
Kaleb Watson
Kaleb Watson
Jeremy Allen brings excitement and positive energy to all things agricultural, nutritional, anthropologic, and holistic. Having practiced clinical medicine as a PA for the last 15 years, he's seen what dietary confusion and varied agricultural practices have done to our collective health- and decided to do something about it. Starting a
Jeremy Allen brings excitement and positive energy to all things agricultural, nutritional, anthropologic, and holistic. Having practiced clinical medicine as a PA for the last 15 years, he's seen what dietary confusion and varied agricultural practices have done to our collective health- and decided to do something about it. Starting a farm focused on ecosystem restoration, a consulting business helping people realize their dream of regenerative homesteading and farming, and hosting classes with local colleges and farming internship programs, he works every waking minute to help heal the land and the community living there. His passion is infectious and everyone leaves him seeing the world in a different way.