Land Steward Training & Courses

The Field-Based Land Steward Training is offered over eleven weeks each September in Jackson County, Oregon. This training includes weekly field classes and presentations from natural resource professionals, and an optional mentor site visit to participants’ land. Participants are guided through the creation of a personalized stewardship management plan. A physical library of stewardship books and materials are included with the course. The field training can be taken with or without volunteer service.

The Online Land Steward Course can be taken anywhere and is not offered on a set schedule but is based on regional instructor availability. The online version can be offered as a wholly online course, or as a hybrid field-online course with some in-person instruction and field days. The course has nine online modules and guides participants through the creation of a personalized stewardship management plan. No volunteer service required.

"Every day, every season, I look at my home with a land Steward eye and try to determine how I can do things better. And so I keep learning, keep engaging, and keep growing. There's not an aspect of my life, from growing food to serving that food to friends, that has not been touched by the Land Steward program." -LS Graduate