What Your Scholars Will Experience

Are you ready to lead your homeschool community on a transformative journey that connects them with the earth, fosters self-reliance, and instills the values of hard work and community stewardship? Welcome to the Georgics Project Scholar Project – an educational experience that empowers you to mentor the principles of creation and meaningful living to your homeschool community.

Get Their Hands Dirty (Literally)

Your scholars won't just learn about agriculture—they'll live it. Through their Personal Georgics Project, students plan, plant, and nurture their own gardens or raise livestock, experiencing firsthand the satisfaction of creation and the connection between labor and reward. They discover that confidence comes not from being told they're capable, but from proving it to themselves.

Create Real Value for Their Community

Through the Marketplace Event, students become entrepreneurs, bringing goods they've grown or created to sell in a real market setting. They learn pricing, presentation, customer interaction, and the pride that comes from offering something of genuine value. This isn't pretend—it's the real experience of contributing to community through their own productive efforts.

Trace Food From Farm to Table

The Harvest Research Dinner transforms students into food detectives as they research the origins of every ingredient in a dish they prepare. They discover the complex journey food takes to reach their table, fostering both gratitude for those who feed us and inspiration to produce more of their own food.

Make Unexpected Connections

Through daily Connections Journaling, students develop the profound skill of seeing patterns between their garden and their life, between natural cycles and personal growth. They learn to think metaphorically, recognizing that how they tend a garden often reflects how they approach everything else.

Discover Their Creative Voice

Through bi-weekly mini-papers, students express Georgic principles through poetry or prose of their choosing. With your supportive feedback focused on ideas over perfection, even hesitant writers find their authentic voice and learn that writing can be a joyful exploration of meaningful ideas.

Stand on the Shoulders of Giants

By researching and presenting on agricultural innovators and entrepreneurs who changed the world—from George Washington Carver to Norman Borlaug—students see how individuals living Georgic principles have fed nations, sparked revolutions, and built prosperity. They begin envisioning their own potential contributions.

What Makes a Great Georgics Mentor

You don't need a green thumb or a farm. You need a belief that young people can discover profound truths through simple acts of creation.

The most effective mentors are those who:

• Guide students through struggle rather than removing obstacles

• Ask "What did you notice?" instead of "Here's what you should see."

• Create space for students to validate themselves through accomplishment

• Model the satisfaction found in meaningful work

If that describes you—or the mentor you're becoming—you're ready.

More Than Gardening—A Foundation for Freedom

The Georgics Project isn't about producing master gardeners (though many students do develop serious agricultural skills). It's about helping young people understand that freedom requires more than good laws—it requires people who can create, produce, solve problems, and contribute real value to their communities.

Parents report children who complain less, persevere more, and take genuine pride in their accomplishments. Mentors see increased responsibility, creative problem-solving, and a shift from "what will you give me?" to "what can I create?"

Students consistently describe Georgics as the year they discovered they could do hard things—and found joy in the doing.

This is leadership education—rooted in soil and stewardship, lived through creation and contribution, and carried forward for life.

Ready to Bring This Experience to Your Homeschool Community?

Join the Georgics Project Mentor Training and step into a year of meaningful growth, hands-on learning, and character formation—for your students and for you.