Training and Education Programs
The Center for Rural Livelihoods regularly offers trainings and educational offerings. We are cultivating tomorrow’s leaders through hands-on educational opportunities in restoration forestry, traditional crafts, and other climate-smart, community-building, regenerative practices. CRL has been working since its inception to research, educate, and demonstrate the power of these practices.
Please see our events page for upcoming trainings and offerings
Featured Trainings:
June 2025 Residential Training Program
Come learn the fundamental skills for a regenerative future, including the historical context and theoretical frameworks crucial to navigating the current historical moment of tightening techno fascism, increasing capitalist opposition to democracy, and accelerating climate change.
Future Fundamentals
Join this free, weekend workshop series throughout the year, focused on topics fundamental to a livable future. In 2025, this series features agroforestry – that crucial convergence of agricultural and forestry practices that integrates trees with other crops and/or animals.
Fire Trainings
In collaboration with the Southern Willamette Prescribed Burn Association and Northwest Youth Corps, CRL is hosting wildfire resilience and safety trainings featuring topics such as pile burning, biochar production, and prescribed burns.
Youth Education Programs
CRL’s youth educational offerings revolve around deepening a connection to place and developing skills for an economy based in ecological stewardship. Our campus is an ideal landscape for students' natural curiosity – to learn more about our youth programs select the button below.
Workforce Training Program
Learn ecologically-based forestry skills pivotal to finding a job, starting a business, or forming a cooperative in forest stewardship. This bilingual program includes business and cooperative development classes as well as hands-on skills training in the forest.
Lead a Workshop
Are you a teacher, looking for a venue to host classes? Our serene campus offers opportunities to lead hands-on workshops in an ecologically diverse forest, mature orchard, by a pond, in a kitchen (indoor or outdoor), or in a large indoor classroom replete with projector screen and mobile chalkboard. In the past, guest teachers have offered classes in pit fired pottery, hide tanning, natural paint making, willow basketry, permaculture teacher training, forestry, pond construction, and various facets of natural building, to name a few. Contact us for more information.
Our Partners
Southern Willamette Prescribed Burn Association
