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Animal Care

Commerce

Community

Dimensional Lumber Woodworking

Earthworks

Electricity

Electricity
- Troubleshoot and fix an electrical appliance

Food Prep and Preservation
- Fry an egg so that it slides around
- Cook grain on a stovetop
- Cook grain in a slow cooker
- Cook grain in a solar oven
- Cook grain with a rocket stove and haybox cooker
- Dry food in a solar food dehydrator
- Vinegar brine pickle something
- Salt brine ferment/pickle something
- Water bath canning
- Cook stir fry
- Make soup / stew / chowder
- Make pizza
- Bake 2 loaves of bread

Food Prep and Preservation
- Restart a cast iron skillet
Food Preparation
- Make six quarts of stock from veggie scraps
- Cook and serve a pound of sunchokes
- Soup - make 4 types of soup
- Bake six things
- Roast 4 pans of food
- Fry 12 different things
- Open fire - cook 4 different things
- Make two dairy foods
- Make two condiments or salad dressings
- Make two kinds of gravy
- Grind two different grains into flour
- Oils and Fats - press or render a quart of oil or fat
Food Preservation
- Pressure can two different things
- Water bath can three different types of food
- Storing food in a living state (possibly in a root cellar)
- Dry 6 different types of things - each type only once
- Ferment four different types of things - At least one gallon per type of fermented food
- Process grain for storage

Foraging
- Fresh
- Dry
- Tea
- Dish
- Dish - lambsquarters, kale and gnocci
- Dish - fried field mushroom breakfast
- Dish – hot and sour soup with slippery jack
- 4 pounds of seed balls/bombs

Gardening
- Chop and drop

Greywater and Willow Feeders
- Use water from a dishpan

Homesteading

Metalworking

Natural Building

Natural Medicine

Nest
- do laundry by hand
- wash dishes without a dishwasher
- clean a bathroom
- clean a kitchen
- clean an oily dish without soap
- grease hinges
- oil wooden kitchen utensils
- get whiter whites without chlorine bleach
- clean an area rug
- sweep floor
- make rags from old clothes
- deep clean the fabric on a couch or chair using natural cleaners
- Clean 4 windows
- manually clean an oven

Nest
- Clean interior of a freezer
- run the self-clean cycle on a washing machine

Plumbing and Hot Water
- Fix a leaky faucet
- Repair a p-trap

Rocket

Round Wood Woodworking
- club style mallet
- compound mallet (smaller dry stick goes into bigger green stick (head))
- carve a simple first-timer spoon
- Two coat hooks
- add one horizontal log to berm/hugelkultur scaffolding
- three log bench
- dry peg in green wood project (build one):
- coat hooks (4)
- half log bench (six feet long) on four legs
- saw horse
- saw buck
- stool

Round Wood Woodworking
- Lightweight eating spoon

Textiles
- Mend a hole - quick darning
- Sew a patch
- Make a small pillow
- Make twine
- Weave a basket
- Crochet or knit a dishcloth

Textiles
Required
- Start a button jar
- Harvest fabric scraps for future sewing projects
- Sew on a button
- Create a textile toolbox
- Sewing machine maintenance
- Invisible mending
- Make a small loom capable of weaving a belt
Repairs - 3 pts required
- Turn trousers into shorts - 1 point
- Mend a hole in a mitten or glove - 0.5 points
- Fix a worn buttonhole - 0.5 points
- Mend a hole in a pocket - 0.5 points
- Full leather maintenance for leather gloves/mittens - 0.5 points
- Mend a hole in a coat - 1 point
- Mend a hole in a shirt or sleeve - 0.5 points
- Replace the crotch in a pair of pants - 1.5 points
- Mend a hole in pants or a skirt - 0.5 points
- Mend or darn a hole in a sock - 0.5 points

Upholstry - 2 points required
Bedding - 2 points required
Weaving - 3 points required
- Weave a baby blanket 4 points (was 6 points)
- Weave a belt - 2.5 points
Spinning - 4 points required
- Make a simple drop spindle 0.5 points
- Prepare wool for spinning - 3 points
Stickwork - 3 points required
Sewing - 3 points required
- Sew 3 masks - 1 point
- Quilt a garment - 8 points
- Sew pants - 2 points
- Sew a pair of panties/boxers/briefs - 1 point
Wax or oilcloth - 0 points required
Dye - 0 points required
Leather - 0 points required

Tool Care
- Sharpen a knife
- sharpen a hatchet
- sharpen a chainsaw chain
- Sharpen, clean, and oil a shovel
- clean the shop
- Make a wedge-style handle
bicycle maintenance - complete 2 points from the following:
- go to freecycles and "build" a bicycle to their standards -2 points
- repair a flat tire on the front wheel of a bicycle - 0.5 points
- repair a flat tire on the rear wheel of a bicycle - 0.5 points
- adjust brakes on a bicycle - 0.5 points
- adjust shifters on a bicycle - 0.5 points
- clean and oil chain on a bicycle - 0.5 points