The 2024 Horn Farm Center Land Steward Training program will take place weekly on four Sundays from February 11 to March 3, followed by 12 Tuesdays from March 5 to May 21. Applications are due by December 31, with early-bird discount pricing by November 30.

 

Participants become versatile and compassionate caretakers of the Earth by learning how to restore broken ecosystems, rebuild lost habitat, mitigate climate change and reawaken a sense of place in nature via immersion into regional ecology, restorative earthwork and hands-on field experience essential to healing natural landscapes.

 

The knowledge and skill set gathered through this course can be leveraged in many ways, including home-scale lawn and woodland revival, professional conservation and land stewardship work, furthering academic studies, environmental activism and recovering ways of living that are rooted in reciprocity with nature.

 

Additional perks include educational hikes, overlap sessions with the Horn Farm's Ecological Gardener Training program, a take-home took kit and natural movement sessions for relaxing the body and equipping trainees for new physical challenges. Scholarship funds are available.

 

Cost is $1,425 ($1,325 early-bird discount). Location: 4945 Horn Rd., York. For more information, call 717-757-6441, email Education@HornFarmCenter.org or visit HornFarmCenter.org/land-steward-training.