Saturday December 7, 2024 10:00 am to 4:00 pm 7 miles north of Laytonville Learn how to build piles in the forest and safely burn them Get hands-on instruction in lighting piles, monitoring them, and quenching them. Learn about what permits are required and how to get them. Learn new techniques for burning, including the…

A week-long immersion in practical skills for developing a healthy reciprocal relationship between people and place. Imagine inhabiting the landscape in a way that simultaneously enhances the health and resilience of the local ecosystem while harvesting materials to build beautiful and energy-efficient human shelters. Such a lifestyle is not only possible but has been the…

Join us on the Summer Solstice for a Skills Gathering at Tan Oak Park. Learn new and old skills, meet new friends, renew your connections to community and earth. Enjoy good food, sit by the campfire, swim in the creek, play music, and sleep under the stars. Bring the whole family. Get more details here.

UPDATE: The Women’s Chainsaw Workshop has sold out. To get on the Waiting List, go to the eventbrite page and click the “Get Tickets” button. You can then sign up for the Waiting List. There may be a few cancellations and you will be first in line for future sessions this year. The Mendocino County…

The Northern Mendocino Ecosystem Recovery Alliance (NM-ERA) invites you to a day of Learning and Burning at Tan Oak Park on Thursday, February 22, 2024. We’ll start at 10:00 am, assembling our Ring of Fire Kiln, then loading it with forest thinning wood. We’ll light it up and keep adding fuel as we discuss biochar…

We have apparently gotten lucky this year with a relatively quiet fire season. Our neighbors to the north in the Smith River and Klamath watersheds have suffered major fires and our best wishes to them. Here we can breathe a sigh of relief but we shouldn’t drop our efforts to make our communities safer. Winter…

Updated: Schedule – October 4, 2023 Mark your calendars and spread the word. The 1st Regenerative Uprising is coming to Tan Oak Park October 6th through 9th. We’ll be teaching and sharing many skills essential to surviving and thriving in this place in the coming years. People can arrive and camp Friday night. Workshops all…

The Natural Building Workshop happened in late August and it’s been a whirlwind ever since as summer transitioned into autumn and everyone has been rushing to finish projects before winter.  Hence no report about the workshop here. We’ll have one out soon with lots of photos. The short report is that we had over 20…

We are hosting a five day Natural Building Workshop August 21st to 25th at Tan Oak Park south of Leggett, CA. Participants will help build a small camping cabin made of poles, clay, and straw while also learning how to build furniture for it from poles gathered from forest thinning projects. Michael Smith, famed natural…

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting a comprehensive and hands-on forest health community event at Tan Oak Park on Saturday April 29th starting at 10am. The day will include: – forest health assessment with a forester– chainsaw safety class– biochar demonstration– pole-peeling workshop– fuel reduction work-party– small diameter pole furniture demo&…