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Registration for the 26-27 school year will open after the Open House, March 12th
If you’ve been curious about our program—or wondering if it might be a good fit for your family—the open house is designed to let you experience it firsthand.
Walking in Wellness is a nature-based learning community where childhood is wild, whole, and wonder-filled. Our days are rooted in rhythm, meaningful work, free play, and deep connection to the land—supporting children socially, emotionally, and physically through real-world experiences outdoors.
During the Open House, families will join one of our classes for morning circle and snack time, followed by a guided tour of the farm and forest. You’ll get a feel for our flow, our spaces, and what a typical morning of learning and play looks like at Walking in Wellness.
Walking in Wellness
At Walking in Wellness, our mission is to give children the space to grow in peace, curiosity, and connection with the natural world. We offer an inquiry-and project-based learning environment fully outdoors that empowers children to learn to care for themselves, each other, and the earth through old-fashioned skills and mindful living as they develop their critical thinking skills and desire to be responsible citizens.
A Day in the Life
Imagine you are four years old, hanging up your backpack on the Seedlings branch as you’re greeted by your teachers and invited into open-ended “soft start” activities: finger-painting a cardboard leaf, smelling freshly picked herbs, or pipetting 'tinctures' for loved ones. Soon you hear the familiar call "time to gather." Hand in hand with a friend, you circle up, sing Good Morning Dear Earth, stretch with the weather, and breathe deeply before settling into the day.
Your snack is eaten on a mat under a great oak tree. The morning unfolds with farm chores or a nature lesson, then it’s off to the forest for hours of imaginative play. After lunch, you share jokes by the trickling Saluda River, rest with a read-aloud that ties into the morning’s work, and finish the day with more play until it’s time for pickup.
Why it matters
Every rhythm at Walking in Wellness blends mindfulness, experiential learning, and the revival of traditional homestead skills. Children sing, move, tend the land, hike, and read together while also building independence, resilience, and wonder. Each day at the farm naturally integrates reading, writing, and science—and through seasonal projects, history and math find their way in too. Parents can count each visit as a homeschool day that nurtures both personal and environmental wellness.
Dates & Hours
The 2026-2027 school year offers classes on Tuesday and Thursdays as follows:
Tuesdays:
🌱 Seedlings (3-4 years old) | 9:00 AM - 1 PM (Optional 2:30 PM Departure)
🌿 Saplings (5-7 years old) | 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
🌳 Oaks (8-12 years old) | 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Thursdays:
🌱 Seedlings (3-4 years old) | 9:00 AM - 1 PM (Optional 2:30 PM Departure)
🌿 Saplings (5-7 years old) | 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
🌳 Oaks (8-12 years old) | 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
School runs August-May with a long winter break & a spring break March 23 + 25.
Each semester is broken up into two 8-week long unit studies that revive a different old-fashioned skill. We now offer family-friendly field trips in addition to our school day gatherings for each unit study!
Age Range/Ratios
The 2026-2027 school year is open to children as young as 3-years-old and goes up to 12-years-old (based on age September 1, 2025). There is a 1:6 teacher to child ratio with the Seedlings (3-4yo), a 1:8 ratio for Saplings (5-7yo) and 1:12 teacher to child ratio with the Oaks (8-12yo). Adventuring Acorns is a caregiver-child class for 6-months-4-years. We hope to have a teen program in the future!
Cost
Registration
New students: $150
Returning families: $50
Monthly Tuition (10 payments, for our 32-weeks of school)
Seedlings: $180/month + $40 for aftercare
Saplings: $205/month
Oaks: $190/month
Discounts
10% sibling discount
10% multi-day attendance discount
10% discount when tuition is paid in full by check
Reviving Old-Fashioned Skills
While personal & environmental wellness will always be at the heart of Walking in Wellness, unit study will also focus on reviving an old-fashioned skill!
Medicine Making: August-September
Wellness toolbox…first aid kit…call it what you will! This set of sessions is focused on creating healing remedies with wild-grown and harvested herbs. We will infuse medicinal oil, make a salve, brew several herbal teas, and infuse herbs into a glycerite. Historical uses of herbs are shared with fun stories! All ingredients used for the medicines are either foraged for on the property or handpicked in the garden!
Harvest & Sharing the Bounty: October-November
Fall is harvest time! We will harvest and learn how to cure certain plants, prepare others for winter, preserve the harvest, plant garlic for spring, and more. Most importantly, we share the bounty and donate many meals to local families hosting children in foster care. Throughout the weeks, we will harvest and prepare crops to make a big vat of soup with many ingredients down to the spices from the garden. This entails multiple harvest methods, curing, washing, peeling, chopping, fermenting, and freezing everything to be ready for coming together feast day! The kids will taste test our soup at school and decide on any adjustments needed before we make the soup thats donated.
Making & Mending: February-March
For 2027, we will take on a special sewing project and teach children the skills to go home and mend items in need of love. Younger students will use pre-punched fabric and blunt needles to get accustomed to sewing. We will make toothpaste and each child will go home with a Bamboo toothbrush. Our hope is the visual reminder of a new toothbrush will help them integrate their mindfulness skills into the everyday activity of brushing their teeth. Each child will make a collection of Waldorf-inspired block crayons by sorting broken crayons by color and melting them down in a mold over the fire (parents- we would love it if you started collecting any broken crayons!). We will talk about food waste, the importance of composting, the enormous amount of landfill waste created in modern society, and everyday ways to reduce our waste. As we learn about the benefits of simplifying our belongings, we will celebrate the end of this unit with a toy swap.
Raising Animals! April-May
Spring of 2027 will focus on Riaising Chickens. Throughout the weeks, the children will participate in raising the chicks, from observing incubation and hatching to being coop-ready! We will learn the anatomy of the egg and chicken, different breeds of chickens and categorizing them by their purpose, the chicken life cycle, the reciprocal nature of chickens and the garden, learn about growing and fermenting feed, regenerative agriculture, nose to tail approach, chicken behavior (pecking order, communication, dirt baths), testing eggs for freshness, assessing health, and more!