Faculty: Jared Nunery, Rick Thomas, Steve Gabriel, Ken Mudge, Steve Hagenbuch, Andre Souligny

This team-taught, two-week intensive course provides an introduction to low-impact forest management techniques and forest farming approaches used to produce timber and non-timber forest products. Lectures, hands-on learning experiences, and meaningful work combine to build skills and knowledge required to bring a systems thinking approach to forest management. The course is designed to expand the concept of the farmstead to include forested areas.   It will include sessions on forest ecology and management, silvopasture and forest farming, bird-friendly forest management and certification, extraction of timber products with draft animals, biochar and inoculation techniques, hugelkultur bed construction and green woodworking.

Level:  Beginner

Prerequisites:  None.

Tuition & Fees:  $2200 covers the cost of the class, most course materials, and three meals per day from our top-ranked Sterling Kitchen, and ground transportation between class locations. Not included are airport transfers or accommodations; please let us know if we can assist you with finding or providing these.

Housing Availability & Fees: On-campus housing is available for an additional fee of $60 per night with a private bathroom and $50 per night with shared bathroom access. Please note that Sterling College offers rustic, dormitory-style housing that is clean and safe but not luxurious.  Availability is limited and room requests are filled on a rolling, first-come, first-served basis. Please visit our accommodations page for more options.

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