EARTH STEWARD APPRENTICESHIP
The Earth Steward Apprenticeship is a hands-on program in regenerative gardening, sacred stewardship, and folk herbalism.
We begin by offering practical skills in soil restoration, medicinal food forest cultivation, and land stewardship — laying the foundation for growing nourishing ecosystems and cultivating resilient gardens.
As your relationship with Earth care as Self care deepens, students are introduced to the practices of harvesting and preparing medicinal plants in rhythm with the seasons.
This apprenticeship offers a living path of stewardship, healing, and reconnection — supporting both ecological restoration and personal transformation.
Grow a Medicinal Food Forest and Deepen Land-Based Awareness
In the first year, students focus on regenerative gardening, soil building, perennial planting, and seasonal land stewardship.
Through direct, hands-on work, students learn to restore soil, cultivate resilient ecosystems, and design a small-scale medicinal food forest — a living system that nourishes both people and the land.
Alongside physical landwork, students engage in introspective practices that cultivate deeper relationship with place:
seasonal observation, land-based journaling, sensory awareness, and cycles of reflection tied to the rhythms of the Earth.
By the end of Year 1, students will have the skills to cultivate a thriving medicinal food forest — and the inner awareness needed to walk in reciprocal relationship with the land.
Year 1: Sacred Stewardship
Year 2: Home Apothecary
Learn Functional Folk Herbalism and Build a Home Apothecary
In the second year, students deepen their land-based practice through functional folk herbalism — gathering monthly at Woodshed Gardens to make medicine in community. Students will learn how to identify and harvest medicinal plants, prepare and preserve herbal medicines, formulate basic remedies for core body systems (e.g., digestion, immunity, nervous system) and build a personal home apothecary for seasonal resilience.
By the end of the apprenticeship, students will have experienced land healing and personal healing as interconnected paths — and walk forward in service to The Great Work of Our Time.
