Our nature- and farm-based gap year semester program explores sustainability through hands-on skills.

We offer two courses for college credit, thanks to our accreditation by the Gap Year Association and their partnership with the University of Montana. Earn credit by working and learning outdoors!

We practice the crafts of food preservation, in-season cooking, forestry, carpentry, fiber arts, and beyond, helping us learn to harness and preserve the seasonal harvest.

Gappers learn to provide for the needs of themselves and their community by engaging with the daily and yearly rhythms of our working farm, and care of the gardens and animals.

Sharing space as a close-knit cohort of peers allows Gappers to practice the life skills that are crucial to being in community with each other: self-governance, communication practices, and group processes.

Gappers engage in reflection and critical questioning of our stories, identities, and privileges within ourselves, our lives, our community, and our society; not in a vacuum, but alongside our daily work and learning.

Through wilderness trips and hands-on earth skills - canoeing, backpacking, foraging, natural history, and more - Gappers experience reciprocity and connection with the natural world.