LAND STEWARDSHIP TRAINING WEEKEND #5: 

CLIMATE + RESILIENCE

sat + sun, aug 10-11

10am-4pm 

sliding scale: $150-300  

In this immersive weekend, we learn to partner with the landscape for RESILIENCE of climate, body and community. We will explore seed saving, fire ecology, climate change, pollinators and more.

This is part of an 8-month holistic training in land stewardship and horticulture—plus practices for attunement with the wider ecology. Over a full growing season, you will learn how to tend land well and fall madly in love with plants. 

This weekend is a threshold for anyone ready to walk a more ecological path — gardeners, farmers, herbalists, homesteaders, environmentalists, nature lovers and more.  Learn practical skills as you practice deep listening with land and explore your ancestral relationship to place, all in a supportive community.  

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THE OVERVIEW

The Tending Alive Project is an experiment in restoring the people's hands to the soil and soul. We evoke a profound cultural remembering of how to tend our local ecosystems back to life in these complex times.

THE PROGRAM

In our immersive weekends, participants will grow a deep foundation of skills to partner with their landscapes in ecological ways.

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We will dig our hands into land stewardship topics over a full growing season:

• orienting to a landscape
• pruning
• propagation
• soil + compost
• water
• ecology
• ​wild + introduced plants
• garden planning + planting
• medicinal plants
• organic gardening
• ecological design
• restoration
• wildlife tracking
• climate resilience
• fire ecology
• ...and more.

the structure:

The Land Stewardship Training is a comprehensive, holistic pathway into land stewardship. It offers a consistent learning structure in a supportive community over the year. It includes 8 months of seasonal learning in immersive weekends + a rite of passage ceremony.

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Participants in the full training receive a 10% discount off other Tending Alive classes during the course of the Land Stewardship Training—wild plant walks, harvesting and more.

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WEEKEND ONLY: This year, weekends of the full training may be taken on a per weekend basis. Mix and match to join a weekend as it fits for your schedule or budget. This option is only available as spaces are open. Note: Participants must attend a minimum of 3 weekends to join the rite of passage ceremony.

DATES LEFT:

July 13-14

Aug 10-11

Sept 14-15

Sept 27-29 optional: 1-day rite of passage ceremony

Oct 12-13

Nov 9-10

TIME

10am-4pm

Saturday + Sunday

LOCATION

In the Snoqualmie Valley, near Duvall, WA. Shared after registration.

COST

per weekend

$300**

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**Sliding scale is available.

Choose a tier that fits your capacity:

$150/$225/$300

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Some work trade options are available, as are payment plans. Contact Katie for options.

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OUR LENS + PHILOSOPHY

This program roots in the truth that wilderness is a myth and—as Indigenous communities demonstrate today as since time immemorial—humans can be beneficial to ecologies. Further, that active and informed participation can lead to more resilient, vibrant landscapes for all. We challenge the word "homesteading" as a way to describe living closely to the land, and look to deconstruct our relationship to land so we can find a more genuinely relational way forward.

Our learning holds a lens of settler responsibility and dreaming toward intersectional liberation. We hold respect and discernment when sharing knowledge rooted in Coast Salish cultural plant traditions and technologies—especially in wildtending, restoration and wild plant lessons.

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A portion of ticket sales is redistributed to the Tend, Gather and Grow Project—a wild food, medicine and cultural ecology curriculum for K-12 learners centering Coast Salish communities. Their work is a powerful catalyst to cultural sovereignty, and a foundation to my awareness of traditional land tending practices. The % donated will depend on enrollment and be calculated in response to Tend's suggested levels of financial support.

OUR INSTRUCTORS

Katie Vincent (they/she) is the primary instructor for the Land Stewardship Training, as well as all add-on courses. We will welcome a few guest instructors over the season to deepen our learning in special topics.

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The plants and landscapes we learn from will be our biggest teachers.

WHAT'S LEFT:​

july - TEND

summer pruning,  propagation, weeds, pest + disease,  harvest, and more.

august - CLIMATE + RESILIENCE

seed saving, fire ecology, climate resilient landscapes and more.

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september - RESTORE

ecological restoration, forest stewardship, remediation, and more.

optional rite of passage ceremony on Sept 27-29

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october - WILD LIFE

mushrooms + fungi, wildlife tracking, habitat-building, hedgerows, and more.

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november - WHOLE CIRCLE

whole systems design, garden logs + organization, potluck + closing.