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Winter 2026 - Keepers of the Flame!
Join Earthganic Farm and Mr. Rootz on a three-part journey into the heart of fire. Each class builds upon the last as we explore the art, science, and spirit of firecraft through hands-on skill, games, teamwork, and storytelling—building friendships and deepening our awareness of the world around us.
We’ll learn how to build, tend, boil tea and cook over flame while discovering what fire can teach us about focus, patience, and care.
Options for ages 3-13!
Dates & Hours
Dates: January 6–24
Time: 9:30 AM–3:00 PM
Choose your day by age group:
- Tuesdays: Ages 3–7
- Thursdays: Ages 6–13
- Saturdays: Ages 5–12
Session Outline:
- Part One: The First Spark – Fire structure, safety, ignition, and tea over flame.
- Part Two: Ways of the Fire – Primitive ignition, wind and spark mastery, friction techniques.
- Part Three: Fire Challenge & Cook-Off – Group challenge, campfire cooking, and celebration.
Cost
Tuesdays
- $205 — first child
- $185 — each additional sibling
Thursdays & Saturdays
- $190 — first child
- $170 — each additional sibling
Please note: Tuesday’s rate is slightly higher to allow for smaller class sizes and a lower child-to-teacher ratio for our youngest learners.
What to bring
○ Backpack preferably with a chest strap
○ Snack, lunch, and full water bottle
○ Tea cup (can be attached to the backpack with a carabiner)
○ Journal and colored pencils/crayons
○ Hand sanitizer and tissue
Other things happening on the farm!
We’re hosting a December Series called Forest Play Thursday: Awareness in Action that cultivates teamwork, body awareness, and wintertime wonder through mindful forest games. Sign up links below!
Be sure to check out the old-fashioned skills we will be reviving throughout the 2025-2026 school year during our homeschool enrichment program, Walking in Wellness, below!
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 homesteading 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 herbal folklore! 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
In our winter months, we slow down to make and mend. Our 2026 theme within this topic is increasing biodiversity on the homestead. Creating new habitats such as bat boxes, bug hotels, birdhouses, water sources, dead hedges, and learning how those can benefit the farm will fill our time for this unit as well as prepping for spring planting!
Raising Animals! April-May
Spring has sprung! Chickens are hatching; goats and rabbits are birthing! There’s so much to see! We are still determining which animal we will focus on raising from hatch/birth for 2026. Whichever animal we focus on, children will learn how to be gentle, how to care for the animal holistically, support its natural way of life, learn how the animals benefits our regenerative system, and learn compassion for the more-than-human world!