Our Immersion Courses are intensive skill based courses that meet either one day or one weekend per month for anywhere between 3 and 10 months. Click on the links below to review more detailed information on the Naturalist Immersion and Ethnobotany Field Immersion. Registration for the 2026 Naturalist Immersion is now officially open! Registration for the Ethnobotany Immersion will open in October.
Naturalist Immersion Course
Registration for 2026 is now open!
This is the path of the naturalist: a journey to deeper, richer and more alive connections to all of the life around you. This course takes students on a journey of enthusiastic engagement with the natural world, both as observer and participator. Through the studies of wildlife tracking, bird studies, basics of botany and ecological. This course is for beginners and experienced outdoorsmen alike. The course is a journey of rewilding, of learning who your wild neighbors are and how to have a better relationship with them. The course will include both lessons in different scientific disciplines such as zoology, biology, osteology, ethology as well as including discussions on nature-based psychology and the philosophy of the relationships of humans and the natural world.
Ethnobotany Field Immersion Course
Registration for 2026 will open in the fall
In this 5 month course, we’ll study Washington state’s native and naturalized plants by visiting every ecosystem it has to offer (desert, alpine, subalpine, montane, wetland and 2nd and old growth forests). We’ll go far beyond plant identification and cover edible, medicinal, utilitarian and wildlife enhancing uses as well. Our overall goal is to facilitate connection to the natural world through our relationship with plants. To get you to slow down and not only identify and use the plants around you, but understand what their role is in the overall ecosystem. Find out more and register below.
Wildcrafting Immersion Course
Registration for 2026 now open!
This 7-month course is a hands-on, full-bodied wildcrafting experience. Participants will join Instructor Reisha Beck on wild harvesting missions for food, medicine and crafting materials. We will be driving long distances, climbing steep cliffs, sleeping under the stars and sharing wild food meals together. This course is for people longing to incorporate wild plants into their daily lives; by building relationships and reciprocity with the land they call home. As we harvest, we will tend wild patches, and give back and create a more abundant wild food system for future humans and non-humans. We will build relationships with nutrient dense foods that feed our families and communities. We will harvest wild medicines that heal and transform our souls. We will spin fibers and weave our dreams. We will create comradery in shared experiences together. Apply below
Weaving Our Dreams Basketry Immersion
Registration for 2026 now open!
This 6-month course is a hands-on, basketry journey that connects us to the natural world. All humans across the Earth, no matter what age, gender, class or ethnicity have traditionally made and used baskets on a daily basis for thousands of years. It has only been until the recent Industrial revolution of the 1900’s did this relationship change. All of our ancestors have amalgamated with the indigenous plants of their homelands to birth beautiful and functional vessels, to not only contain their foods and medicines but also their dreams and prayers for the world. Weaving Our Dreams is a basketry immersion that focuses on reestablishing our relationship to the plant world through weaving with the wild plants that we share our homes with. My goal is to give participants a strong foundation in processing wild plants into useable and beautiful baskets, while weaving in a container of a supportive community. Each class builds upon the next as each project increases in skill level. Apply below Weaving Our Dreams>