Tracks
The Academy is designed to support different life stages and ways of learning. Whether you're joining as a young person, an individual adult, or as a family, each track provides a structured, mentor-led experience on working farms.
Three Academy Tracks
Choose how you participate in the Land & Legacy Academy.
Option A
Youth Track
Ages 12–17
Exposure, discipline, and small-scale enterprise. Guardian-supported learning with real responsibilities.
- Learn through hands-on immersion days
- Guardian involvement at all stages
- Age-appropriate enterprise responsibilities
- Core Formation before pathway selection
- Portfolio built over each semester
Option B
Adult Track
Ages 18+
Income generation, side-business model, and asset building. For adults serious about land-based enterprise.
- Full asset ownership options
- Business skill and profit model development
- Seasonal intensives and mentorship circles
- Advance from Initiate to Master Steward
- Personal Enterprise Portfolio
Option C
Family Track
Ages All Ages
Parents and children operate together. Shared assets, shared rewards, shared responsibility.
- Joint asset ownership between parent & child
- Shared logbooks and enterprise records
- Age-adapted responsibilities within family unit
- Mentorship circles with other families
- Multi-generational seasonal reflections
Youth Track
For participants aged 12–17, the Youth Track is built around real-world competence, responsibility, and growth. This is where young people move beyond learning about things to actually doing them.
🎯 What They Gain
- Real-World Competence: They don't just learn about animals and systems — they learn to handle them safely, complete real tasks, and maintain responsibility.
- Understanding Responsibility: Farm environments teach that consistency matters. Animals need feeding. Systems need care. Time is real.
- Confidence Through Capability: As they gain competence, confidence follows. They experience doing something new, getting better at it, and being trusted with more.
- Exposure to Real Pathways: They discover farming, agriculture, production systems, and land-based careers firsthand.
- Connection to Land and Animals: They develop respect for living systems and understand where food comes from.
- Mentorship, Not Just Instruction: They are guided by experienced people, known and supported, growing through real relationships.
👥 Guardian Participation
Youth participants must attend with a parent, guardian, or responsible adult. This is not drop-off childcare — it's a shared learning experience.
- ✓ Guardians attend all farm-based sessions alongside the young person
- ✓ Guardians learn alongside their youth, modeling responsibility and engagement
- ✓ Together you support consistency, safety, and genuine growth
- ✓ The experience is relational and formative — building connection and capability
Adult Track
For adults aged 18+, this track is designed for independent learners exploring practical agricultural skills, career change, or land-based enterprise. Whether you're looking for direction, deeper capability, or a meaningful change of pace, this track offers structured, hands-on learning.
🎯 What This Track Offers
- Practical Skill Development: Learn real agricultural and farm management skills in a structured, semester-based model.
- Agricultural Understanding: Develop genuine competence in land management, animal care, production systems, and sustainability.
- Business & Enterprise Exposure: Learn to track costs, calculate profit, understand markets, and develop enterprise thinking.
- Personal Growth & Capability: Build confidence, resilience, and a deeper sense of purpose through hands-on engagement.
- Mentorship & Real Farm Environments: Learn from experienced practitioners in active, working farm settings.
- Full Asset Ownership: You have the option to own livestock or manage assets, building real responsibility and enterprise experience.
💼 Who This Is For
Adults exploring a career change, seeking agricultural skills, wanting to understand farming and production, or looking for meaningful, hands-on learning with clear structure and mentorship support.
Family Track
For families of all shapes and sizes who want to learn and grow together. This track is built on shared participation, shared responsibility, and intergenerational learning. Your family joins the Academy as a learning unit, working together toward common goals.
🌱 What This Track Offers
- Joint Learning: Family members learn together, each at their own level, but as part of a shared experience.
- Shared Responsibility: Animals, assets, and farm care are shared responsibilities — building family cohesion and shared purpose.
- Shared Records & Logbooks: Your family keeps shared records of progress, experiences, and learning together.
- Intergenerational Growth: Parents and children develop capability and confidence alongside one another.
- Connection to Land and Each Other: A meaningful shared activity that strengthens family bonds and connection to nature.
- Practical Education for All Ages: Each family member engages at an appropriate level, supporting and learning from one another.
💛 Inclusive & Flexible
This track welcomes all family structures — single parents, multi-generational families, extended family groups, and more. If you're a family unit wanting to learn, work, and grow together on the land, you belong here.
Core Curriculum Pillars
One framework adapted across every age group and pathway.
Land & Animal Care
Responsibility & Capital
Ethics & Welfare
Confidence & Capability
Reflection & Documentation