
We get a great diversity of people on our courses — doctors, activists, lawyers, students, retirees, kids, you name it. The common thread is that everyone comes looking to learn about sustainability and seeking community — and an incredible community does form on nearly every course we run, faq-pinebranchwith life-long friendships often resulting.
While in We provide a menu and divide the group into cooking crews. Each day a different cooking group takes turns preparing and making the meals — which greatly helps build community as people spend time cooking together.
The accommodations included in the tuition for our programs are usually camping; dorms are also often available for certain workshops (additional fees apply). We tend to camp at host farms or campgrounds with bathroom facilities. We usually provide tents and you just need your own sleeping pad and sleeping bag.
We have no trained therapists, psychologists or mental health professionals on our staff and our programs are not therapy. Our programs are designed only for emotionally and physically healthy adults who are able to handle living in close quarters with other people for the length of the program, and able to productively process the emotional challenges that arise as part of this experience.
For us to offer a flexible refund policy would require a loss of at least a third of our tuition revenues, and thus require raising your tuition fees by at least fifty or more percent to compensate for the supply and demand economics. That would be completely contrary to our mission of making sustainability accessible to those with limited financial means.