Our Immersion Courses are intensive skill based courses that meet either one day or one weekend per month for anywhere between 3 and 10 months. Click on the links below to review more detailed information on the Naturalist Immersion and Ethnobotany Field Immersion. Registration for both programs in 2024 are now officially open!
Naturalist Immersion Course
Registration for 2024 is now open!
This is the path of the naturalist: a journey to deeper, richer and more alive connections to all of the life around you. This course takes students on a journey of enthusiastic engagement with the natural world, both as observer and participator. Through the studies of wildlife tracking, bird studies, basics of botany and ecological. This course is for beginners and experienced outdoorsmen alike. The course is a journey of rewilding, of learning who your wild neighbors are and how to have a better relationship with them. The course will include both lessons in different scientific disciplines such as zoology, biology, osteology, ethology as well as including discussions on nature-based psychology and the philosophy of the relationships of humans and the natural world.
Ethnobotany Field Immersion Course
Registration for 2024 is now open!
In this 5 month course, we’ll study Washington state’s native and naturalized plants by visiting every ecosystem it has to offer (desert, alpine, subalpine, montane, wetland and 2nd and old growth forests). We’ll go far beyond plant identification and cover edible, medicinal, utilitarian and wildlife enhancing uses as well. Our overall goal is to facilitate connection to the natural world through our relationship with plants. To get you to slow down and not only identify and use the plants around you, but understand what their role is in the overall ecosystem. Find out more and register below.