Grow a garden for inner and outer nourishment

Tree School Mentorship

A 8-month gardening mentorship to create a fruitful, climate resilient,
spiritually connective garden ecosystem to feed your family and the earth.

Led by Tree School Founder, Certified Arborist, and gifted teacher, Corva Rose, this program guides folks on their journey of growing a garden practice rooted in spirit, intuition, community, relationship and technical skills

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“I’ve learned so much through this program and it’s helped me to think much more holistically about my garden and all the creatures who spend time here.”
~ Emily Cohen

The time is now to tend to your gardening journey.

The 8-month Tree School Mentorship cohort begins once a year, and is currently open for enrollment!
See below for details.

How Do You Achieve Results?

Through Following The Tree School Climate Adaptation Method:
The Tree School Climate Adaptation Method
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Engagement

Moving from overwhelm about the world to engagement with the world

Strategy
Moving from confusion to strategic planning & achieving your goals

Joy

Mixing your adaptive gardening methods with JOY
Community

Cultivating community, belonging, and hope

Habitat

Developing wildlife habitat from a place of compassion

In our mentorship we will explore topics such as:

  • building connection to the earth and self
  • how climate change is impacting your garden
  • soil trauma and degradation
  • choosing plants for our future climate
  • how to make your garden actually “work”
  • creating a garden as a refuge for self and others
  • how to garden with your intuition and senses
  • designing a home garden that nourishes your inner garden and is interconnected with the world.

Our approach

Here at Tree School, we invite you to move through the garden, and the world, with curiosity. We like to ask lots of questions.

For example, before we can get to answer questions like, “What creates a fruitful, climate resilient and spiritually connective garden ecosystem?”, we ask deeper, more foundational questions like:

Why do we garden? Where do our ideas of gardening come from? What is the history of the land? How does our lineage, race, class and identity inform our approach? And, how can I/we work with the earth, and all the elements, in a way that brings the least harm possible? 

We see the answers to those questions coming from the awareness and analysis of three gardens, actually: The Inner Garden, The Home Garden, and The World Garden.

The curriculum guides each student through a process of cultivating and growing each of these three gardens, three worlds essentially, that interrelate and affect each other.
“Tree School helped me create and nurture a better garden space – learning the value of native plant species, pruning and mulching, sustainable watering practices and an awareness of the interdependence of all species residing there. More importantly, however, has been Corva’s mission of having us grow our own inner garden as well as realize our garden’s place in the greater community.

I just received my ABQ Backyard Wildlife Habitat Certification from Friends of Valle de Oro. I am so proud and pleased, but I truly could not have done it without Corva’s invaluable expertise, support and encouragement. I have learned so much from my Tree School experience and it has enhanced not only my garden, but also my life.”
~ Sharon Hall
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What’s included:

  • Initial private session with Corva at your house: We spend 3 hours together, mapping out your yard and setting your course for the next 8 months. This session might also include some pruning, diagnostics, and basic design work as part of the main focus -- getting you oriented for this 8-month journey.
  • Twice monthly 3-hour Saturday Sessions, for Garden Working-and-Learning: The location of these Sessions rotates between Corva’s Teaching Garden, the home gardens of fellow Tree Schoolers (you have an opportunity to get some community help on a project and additional input from Corva!), and volunteer sites (we make a difference in the world together!) During these sessions, there are many opportunities to receive instruction, ask questions, get and give encouragement, and celebrate. We spend time together with the earth – listening and tuning in.
  • Serious Gardening Skills — During these Sessions, we learn solid, high-level skills in the areas of pruning, biology, plant identification and uses, soil, seeds, water, mulch, harvesting, garden design, habitat development, project management. All within the context of climate change as it relates to gardening. You will have access to plant cuttings, seeds, and random cool garden supplies and tools from Corva’s stash.
  • Feedback and community support in our private Slack group: This online community hub is easy to navigate and is our virtual garden patio where we hang out, touch base between sessions, exchange ideas, and get questions answered. Graduates of the program get to stay in this group, so they remain connected and have access to Corva for questions and feedback.
  • A one-hour 1:1 session with Corva at your home: This is scheduled during your 8 months, and can be used in whatever way you need.
  • We Engage in Projects That Uplift — Throughout the program, we as a group will connect with and support local organizations that focus on developing peace, community food security, habitat development, and climate equity, thereby widening our focus to the World Garden. This big picture work then influences our home gardens and our inner gardens, which then ripples out into the world.
  • A supportive group (your fellow Tree School-ers!) and expert gardener and major cheerleader (Corva!) to encourage you on this journey.
  • And some fun extras! Occasional guest teachers; free admission to Playshops that happen during the 8 months, and an opportunity to help new students at these Playshops; and additional curriculum as Tree School develops.

Investment

Enrollment is $2500 for 8 months, payable in full.
Or 8 monthly payments of $330.00.

Teachers

  • The main teacher/facilitator for the Mentorship is Corva Rose.
  • Corva will be assisted by Dvorah Simon (Mentorship graduate, psychologist,
    poet, and precious goofball) as co-facilitator for many of the sessions.
  • There will also be some guest teachers for our World Garden days, to be announced.

Dates for the cohort

Click here to view the dates for the 8-month Mentorship.

Enrollment

The cozy space for this in-person cohort is limited to 8 people,
and we would be delighted to welcome you to the group!

Joining a program of this depth and duration is a time and energy commitment.
We understand that, and we want you to have success, comfort, and enjoyment here.

In order to cultivate good conditions for this to happen, we have a 2-step enrollment process:

  • We will contact you within a day or two to schedule a conversation with us (Corva and Dvorah)
    to make sure it’s a good, harmonic fit for all of us!

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Or, if you want to speak with Corva to make sure the program is right for you,
book a no-pressure Tree School discovery call to answer all your questions.

“Corva is an excellent, clear teacher. She concisely covers the big-picture aesthetic stuff, like how we want this shrub to look, how it fits in the landscape and with my aesthetic, as well as the small-picture technical aspects of where and how to make a cut and the effect it has on the plant's structure and health in the short and long term. Her effect on me is almost like a self-help workshop, encouraging me to slow down and be more deliberate about the choices I make when working with plants.”
~ Sarah
"Corva brings so much love and care to every tree planting, visit, check-up, and healing process. We love seeing her thorough and gentle approach with our trees and the land we all rely on for nourishment.
~ J&M