I'm surprised that the article made no mention of Yule Kilcher's   homesteading school back in the '70s.       I'd been make arrangements to move back to AK.   One evening I was reading the classifieds in the latest Mother Earth News.  This was Nov. '77.   

I came across the add for a homesteading school in Homer.   It piqued my curiosity. I called.   Ended up chatting and laughing with Jule for danged near an hour.   

Long story short  he offered city kids from the lower 48,  the opportunity to come to his homestead and spend the summer working his homestead.   He only charged  $1500.00  which included bed and board.     I got stitches in my ribs from laughing so hard after he'd told me.   His Swedish accent was kinda thick  and listening to him brag about getting rich kids to pay him to labor for him.