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Walking in Wellness
At Walking in Wellness, our mission is to give children the space to grow in peace, curiosity, and connection with the natural world. We offer an inquiry-and project-based learning environment fully outdoors that empowers children to learn to care for themselves, each other, and the earth through old-fashioned skills and mindful living as they develop their critical thinking skills and desire to be responsible citizens.
A Day in the Life
Imagine you are four years old, hanging up your backpack on the Seedlings branch as you’re greeted by your teachers and invited into open-ended “soft start” activities: finger-painting a cardboard leaf, smelling freshly picked herbs, or pipetting 'make tinctures' for loved ones. Soon you hear the familiar call "time to gather." Hand in hand with a friend, you circle up, sing Good Morning Dear Earth, stretch with the weather, and breathe deeply before settling into the day.
Your snack is eaten on a mat under a great oak tree. The morning unfolds with farm chores or a nature lesson, then it’s off to the forest for hours of imaginative play. After lunch, you share jokes by the trickling Saluda River, rest with a read-aloud that ties into the morning’s work, and finish the day with more play until it’s time for pickup.
Why it matters
Every rhythm at Walking in Wellness blends mindfulness, experiential learning, and the revival of traditional homestead skills. Children sing, move, tend the land, hike, and read together while also building independence, resilience, and wonder. Each day at the farm naturally integrates reading, writing, and science—and through seasonal projects, history and math find their way in too. Parents can count each visit as a homeschool day that nurtures both personal and environmental wellness.
Dates & Hours
The 2025-2026 school year offers classes on Tuesday and Thursdays as follows:
Tuesdays:
🌱 Seedlings (3-4 years old) | 9:00 AM - 1 PM (Optional 2:30 PM Departure)
🌿 Saplings (5-7 years old) | 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Wednesdays:
🌰 Adventuring Acorns (6 months - 3 years old) | A 6-week class 9:45-12 (Caregiver involvement required)
Thursdays:
🌱 Seedlings (3-4 years old) | 9:00 AM - 1 PM (Optional 2:30 PM Departure)
🌿 Saplings (5-7 years old) | 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
🌳 Oaks (8-12 years old) | 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
School runs August-May with a long winter break & a spring break March 24-26.
Each semester is broken up into two 8-week long unit studies that revive a different old-fashioned skill. Next year, we’re excited to offering family-friendly field trips in addition to our school day gatherings for each unit study!
Age Range/Ratios
The 2025-2026 school year is open to children as young as 6 months and goes up to 12-years-old (based on age September 1, 2025). There is a 1:6 teacher to child ratio with the Seedlings (3-4yo), a 1:7 ratio for Saplings (5-7yo) and 1:10 teacher to child ratio with the Oaks (8-12yo). Adventuring Acorns is a caregiver-child class for 6-months-4-years. We hope to have a teen program in the future!
Cost
Seedlings: $205/month +$30 for aftercare
Saplings: $225/month
Oaks: $205/month
Reviving Old-Fashioned Skills
While personal & environmental wellness will always be at the heart of Walking in Wellness, unit study will also focus on reviving an old-fashioned skill!
Medicine Making: August-September
Wellness toolbox…first aid kit…call it what you will! This set of sessions is focused on creating healing remedies with wild-grown and harvested herbs. We will infuse medicinal oil, make a salve, brew several herbal teas, and infuse herbs into a glycerite. Historical uses of herbs are shared with fun stories! All ingredients used for the medicines are either foraged for on the property or handpicked in the garden!
Harvest & Sharing the Bounty: October-November
Fall is harvest time! We will harvest and learn how to cure certain plants, prepare others for winter, preserve the harvest, plant garlic for spring, and more. Most importantly, we share the bounty and donate many meals to local families hosting children in foster care. Throughout the weeks, we will harvest and prepare crops to make a big vat of soup with many ingredients down to the spices from the garden. This entails multiple harvest methods, curing, washing, peeling, chopping, fermenting, and freezing everything to be ready for coming together feast day! The kids will taste test our soup at school and decide on any adjustments needed before we make the soup thats donated.
Making & Mending: February-March
In our winter months, we slow down to make and mend. Our 2026 theme within this topic is increasing biodiversity on the homestead. Creating new habitats such as bat boxes, bug hotels, birdhouses and learning how those can benefit the farm will fill our time for this unit as well as prepping for spring planting!
Raising Animals! April-May
Spring has sprung! Chickens are hatching; goats and rabbits are birthing! There’s so much to see! We are still determining which animal we will focus on raising from hatch/birth for 2026. Whichever animal we focus on, children will learn how to be gentle, how to care for the animal holistically, support its natural way of life, learn how the animals benefits our regenerative system, and learn compassion for the more-than-human world!