Join our Wilders Guild! Live the life of folk craft, animal care, gardens, and restoring the land.
A school-year program that teaches skills 1 weekend-a-month.
Apprenticeship
Make new friends while learning skills of ecological leadership. Share in adventures with a team of like-minded peers. With dedication and hard-work, an Apprenticeship can grow into a life-long study of ancient ways:
Wild Plants Delve into the incredible world of wild plants. Learn skills of identification and safe harvest of wild foods-developing a connection to the land through seasonal cycles of growth and restoration.
Homestead Craft Learn crafts of woodworking, natural building, animal husbandry, outdoor cooking, and even artisan cheese making. Train both to sustain the Village and help build it.
Animal Care Learn to care for the animals of the farm: goats, chickens, sheep and more. Explore how they help us restore the land. Make fiber art projects into beautiful and useful crafts.
Gardening Tend to the Wilders Garden. Grow food while learning principles of soil restoration and ecology. Journey into a world where wild plants run through our gardens as our gardens grow through the wild forest.
Our Apprenticeship Mentors are experienced educators teaching authentic and traditional skills. They are facilitators of thoughtful growth through the power of nature and community.
Program inclusions:
- 9 field day Saturdays
- Community Celebration: Picnic Potluck
- optional family holiday party
- access to our family Skills Night.
*Tuition is divided into monthly payments or may be paid in full.
Class Schedule
Class is one weekend a month from September to May. Please check these dates carefully, as we are unable to provide credit for missed days.
Schedule B
- September 15, 2018 Field Day
- October 6, 2018 Field Day
- October 27, 2018 Field Day
- November 17, 2018 Field Day
- December 8, 2018 Optional Holiday Party
- January 26, 2019 Field Day
- February 16, 2019 Field Day
- March 16, 2019 Field Day
- April 20, 2019 Field Day
- May 11, 2019 Field Day
- June 1, 2019 Community Celebration: Picnic Potluck
Special Needs
Some special needs can be accommodated, please contact for more details.
A few classes offer the following text regarding special needs students:
"We believe all children should have an IEP! Every person learns in a different way, at their own pace. Individualized, project-based learning means being intensely familiar with all one’s students abilities and needs. We will trust our teachers to present curriculum in a way that provides the right level of challenge at the right time. When we observe that a student could benefit from additional support, we will work with the parents and call in outside resources as necessary to help provide the tools to succeed for that child."
Deals
Need-based scholarships and flexible payment plans are offered for those who need it. Please contact for more information.