[Cob] Summer "Apprentorship" Program for Teens in Natural Building, Permaculture, and Life Skills

[Quail Springs]

Quail Springs, a 450 acre Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm, operated
by the co-founders of Wilderness Youth Project and Mentoring for Peace, 

is offering an "Apprentorship Residential Program" for Teens

 

Dates: July 3-23, 2006

*Early registration discount up to June 21st 

Cost: $1,500 (PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE)  

Where: Upper Cuyama Valley  (Central California Mountains 2 hours east
of Santa Barbara, California)

Contact: www.quailsprings.org <http://www.quailsprings.org/>
805-886-7239  

 

This unique and innovative 3-week intensive will offer the youth, aged
13-18 an opportunity to gain hands on personal development and
vocational skills in natural building, permaculture design, sustainable
food systems, composting, energy orders, ecological restoration, animal
stewardship, wild animal tracking, healthy food preparation, nature
appreciation and awareness, personal and community relationship
building, "old way" earth skills, and many other activities and learning
around the farm and in the surrounding wilderness.

 

Youth participants will have the opportunity to gather essential tools
that will allow them to begin to navigate the journey of uncovering an
appropriate vocation in relation to their inherent gifts and abilities.
Our innovative program design inspires the participants to gain valuable
hands-on experience in a wide variety of life supporting and affirming
tasks, and to bridge the learning-experience gap that most modern youth
encounter by offering immersion in relevant work, life and community
success strategies. Our groups are small which allow for intensive
one-on-one counsel and which gives participants an opportunity to go
through their own experiential processes at a pace that supports their
unique learning capacities. 

 

During the last weekend of the three-week program we invite the families
of the youth to Quail Springs to camp and celebrate the learning and
accomplishments of their children.

 

Words of teens at Quail Springs - "I've had so much fun here and this
was such a life changing experience."  "You've taught me so much about
my life that I didn't know."  "Thanks a million for everything, Cuyama
has changed my life!"  "I feel at home when I'm here, I can't wait to
come back."

Resident Caretaker 
Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm 
 <mailto:info at quailsprings.org> info at quailsprings.org