YukonU Haines Junction Campus

Coming soon. To register, please use contact information on poster.

Some spaces available in this weekend’s course. Contact information is on the poster, if you’d like to register.

Dates for our planned Spring/Early Summer Standard First Aid offerings.

The Summer 2026 Entrance Awards Applications are now open!

Entrance awards are available to students who are coming to YukonU for the very first time in the Fall semester as a full-time student.

Awards can be based on academic or personal achievement, financial need, or additional specialized criteria.

Review each award to see if you meet the criteria: https://www.yukonu.ca/current-students/money-matters/yukon-university-student-awards

If you have any questions, reach out to the Funding Advisor in-person at C1228, over the phone at 867 456 8574, or via email at [email protected].

➡️ Applications will be accepted until May 15, 2026.

Send this to someone who is planning to come to YukonU in 2026!

When Sylvie Gewehr started a bookkeeping and tax business in Haines Junction, it was out of necessity, not a grand entrepreneurial plan.

What she didn’t expect was that it would quietly finance and build the confidence for the business her heart had always wanted: Wildwood Spirit, a herbal practice rooted in Yukon land.

Herbalism has been with Sylvie since her early teens, long before she knew it could be a job.

“I started when I was a teenager… already making tinctures and all those kinds of things,” she says.

“It really never ever occurred to me that it could be a profession.”

The turning point came in 2020, when herbal schools moved online and she could finally study without leaving the Yukon.

A friend then invited her to sell a few tea blends at an open house. They sold well and Wildwood Spirit was born.

Today, Sylvie spends mornings with spreadsheets and tax deadlines, and afternoons in the garden and kitchen, crafting teas, tinctures, and salves, leading plant walks, hosting workshops, and offering consultations.

It’s a constant balancing act between “left‑brain” and “right‑brain” work.

Her approach is deeply values‑driven.

She refuses to market her herbal products outside the Yukon to avoid over‑harvesting local plants, and she’s designed The North Within—a monthly plant card subscription created with artist Alida Thomas—as a way to share Yukon plant wisdom worldwide without depleting local ecosystems.

“I’m doing it for the plants, mostly,” she says.

“If I’m not earning any money with my businesses, I can’t run them and then I’m also not bringing the plants into people’s lives.”

For Sylvie, success isn’t about scale; it’s about impact.

Sometimes, all it takes is overhearing a customer say a Wildwood Spirit remedy finally helped where nothing else had.
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Sylvie' story is part of a series featuring 4 rural entrepreneurs in the Yukon by YukonU Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

💮 Read the full story: https://www.yukonu.ca/innovation/stories/2026-03/rooted-yukon-how-herbalist-sylvie-gewehr-built-wildwood-spirit

Story written Lael Lund from Storybrand.

Join us next week for the Research in Progress talk.

Theme 👉 Rocking the St Elias: A giant earthquake, hidden faults, and what it means for Yukoners

📍 Whitehorse:
Monday, March 2 at 7 p.m. (doors at 6 p.m.)
Gold Rush Inn

📍 Haines Junction:
Tuesday, March 3 at 7p.m.
St. Elias Convention Centre

⭐⭐⭐Starts at 6:30 pm at the Haines Junction Campus on Monday! Applications have started coming in!! Text Angie at 867-332-0010... Email is slow to make it through this weekend.

Joint Open House, Tues Jan 20, 2026, 4-6pm. Atrium, St. Elias Convention Centre, Haines Junction. All welcome!

Contact info for information/registration on poster.

Update 12/09. POSTPONED to the New Year! Stay tuned for a new open house date in later January.

Joint Christmas Open House, Thursday Dec 11 from 4-6pm in the Atrium. Door prizes, swag and tasty snacks. All welcome.
Next week! Joint Christmas Open House, Thursday Dec 11 from 4-6pm in the Atrium. Door prizes, swag and tasty snacks. All welcome.