The Lost Skills Revival

Reclaim What Was Never Meant
To Be Lost

TAKE THE PLEDGE

RECLAIM A SKILL

Mark the Calendar

August 15

Gather around for a minute. 🌾
We made this short video to share the heart behind National Homesteaders Day and the Lost Skills Revival. Click to watch.

EMPOWERING NEW GENERATIONS • SUSTAINABILITY • HANDS-ON LEARNING • LOCAL RESILIENCE • SHARED WISDOM • DISCOVER THE CRAFTSMANSHIP

More Than Skills.
A Return To Connection.

Somewhere along the way, we became disconnected.

Disconnected from our food.
Our homes.
And the wisdom once passed from one generation to the next.

The Lost Skills Revival is about more than skills.

It’s about rebuilding resilience.
Strengthening families.
And bringing community back to the center of everyday life.

Because when we reclaim these skills, we reclaim connection.

To the land.
To one another.
And to the generations that came before us — and the ones still to come.

JOIN THE REVIVAL

Why it Matters

Because we were never meant to forget how to care for ourselves and each other.

These skills built generation before us.
The created stability, resilience, and connection.

And they're not gone -
they're just waiting to be picked back up.

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Goats

This is the Lost Skills Revival.

Imagine... if millions reclaimed just ONE.

Founded by Preppin Mama

Homegrown in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Shared with the nation.

National Homesteader's Day was founded by Preppin Mama, a homesteader's Hub and general store rooted in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

What began as one family's desire to reclaim lost skills, strengthen home, and rebuild community, has grown into a national invitation:

choose one skill, reclaim it, and pass it on.

Through hands-on classes, local makers, heritage goods, and Lost Skills Revival, Preppin Mama exists to help households gather, equip, and sustain- one skill at a time.

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MEET THE FOUNDERS