Previously known as Abuela Gardens, Wanosh Forest Garden and Healing Grounds is offering courses.
Abuela Gardens is a working demonstration site dedicated to helping the growth and healing of all beings through a continued dialogue with nature, water, food, and medicine. This approach is accomplished by incorporating community, music, healing arts, and silence within a multi dimensional design strategy. Our action plan is to communally care for the Earth by growing as much of our own food and
Timber Frame Workshop coming up! June 5th - 11th, 2026!
We’re offering a $200 discount!
Partial work trades available, as well.
Comment Timber for deets sent to your DMS!
05/20/2026
In other news, we have openings for 3+ month residential opportunities.
The beautiful bird house ( a small studio )
JA Lioness ( The OG common vision bus )
& BYO housing ( Tent, car, bus, etc )
If you’re curious to learn more… COMMENT 🌱LAND🌱 and we’ll send you the application & deets.
We are a small off-grid permaculture education & demonstration center, with a small core team and many devotional projects oriented towards creating the more beautiful world and building a place for learning, healing and growing.
Based in Mendocino County, Northern California.
Offering $200 of our upcoming Timber Frame Workshop!
June 5th - 11th, 2026
Willits, Ca!
Comment ‘Timber’ 🌲🌲🌲 to learn more!
Discount code sent to you by DM :)
05/14/2026
Throwback Thursday to Building the Center
A mix of round poles harvested from the land, home milled & salvaged dimensional lumber, and wild harvested driftwood.
2019 & 2020
With
Round Pole Timber Frame Workshop coming up June 5-11, 2026!
Comment BAM BAM to learn more! Or check the link in bio
05/14/2026
05/14/2026
Join us for hands on skills building! Round Pole Timber framing is a way to use raw materials harvested in fire prevention and watershed regeneration work to make affordable artisan homes. We are offering discounts to those who truly need it. , , , ,
05/02/2026
Day long or weekend(+) learning & tending with the Forest - a study and practice of reciprocal living within a forest ecosystem & watershed.
Over the course of our workshop we will be focusing on:
🌲Approach to Regenerative Forestry, covering the different considerations of landscape literacy that are essential to ethical decision making.
🌲Understanding Ideal Harvest Time
🌲Chainsaw Safety and Operation
🌲Using Block and Tackle to guide tree fall and move your harvest out of the forest.
🌲Classroom and Hands on Tree Felling Techniques.
🌲An Introduction to Preventing Wildfire and Preparing for Good Fire.
🌲Touring broad scale acreage of tended forest with a focus on both good and bad fire in the landscape.
🌲Forest Reciprocity. The human/non human agreements of exchange.
The Hands on Skill Building Practicum is an opportunity to go beyond the workshop setting and gain experience in the field. No two tree falls are the same, each tree presents different considerations to a safe and predictable fall. Gain experience during this week of guided mentorship falling trees. The work in the practicum will serve Oak Woodland Restoration and produce Timber for Building.
All skill levels welcome. No one turned away! Spread the word and join us in the forest, soon.
Comment 🌲🌲🌲 to learn more!
Work trades available. 🌱
09/20/2025
✨ October Work Parties at Wanosh ✨
Join us the first and second weekends of October as we come together to shape, tend, and celebrate the land and each other.
🌿 What we’ll be working on:
• Clay plaster finishes
• Oiling final coats on floors and benches
• Carpentry projects
• Planting seeds in the garden
• Opening the season of work in the forest
🔥 The sauna will be hot and ready!
💫 Evenings together:
• Friday nights: community council
• Saturday nights: festive sharing of music & story
🥗 Food:
We’ll flow with a potluck rhythm, supplemented by dishes from the garden. You can count on cabbage, zucchini, yard-long beans, basil, and popcorn! Of coarse there will be plenty of tea too.!
📩 DM us with any questions or to let us know you’ll be there.
Let’s root into the work, the songs, the food, and the fire together.
07/11/2025
🛠️ Develop your Lifelong Relationship with Earthen Building 🛠️
This August, we’re offering a rare opportunity to ground your learning in hands-on practice—through a natural building workshop series rooted in the heart of Mendocino County, California.
Over two immersive weekends, students will:
Work directly with clay, straw, and sand.
Learn through touch, intuition, and repetition
Explore the nuance of materials in real time
Understand how earthen techniques contribute to fire-resilient design in a changing climate
Begin a long-term relationship with the rhythms of earth-based construction
learn simple details that make these techniques applicable for retrofitting conventional spaces
eat all organic meals sourced on site and locally
Have access to Sauna, and Hot Showers
This is not just an intro class—it’s an embodied invitation into the complexity, subtlety, and sacred logic of natural building.
You’ll leave with the foundational knowledge to continue this path—with your own hands, on your own land, or with your own community.
🧱 Base Plasters & Floors: August 8–10, 2025🎨 Finish Floors & Plasters: August 22–24, 2025
The experience is spacious, paced, and grounded—ideal for builders, homesteaders, artists, activists, architects, or anyone ready to root in the practical and poetic.
All organic meals, hot showers, a wood-fired sauna, and spacious camping are included in your registration—nourishment for the body as well as the hands.
Limited spots available to keep the group small, focused, and supportive.
Link in bio to register 🌱 (www.wanosh.org)