The Planet Healer Path
The gap between caring about nature and knowing what to do about it: that is what the Planet Healer Path is designed to close. Not with information alone, but with practice. Daily practice, built over time, supported by a community of people doing the same work.
The Path has five stages. Each one builds on the last. You don't move forward by completing a test. You move forward by doing the work. Sitting. Noticing. Reading the landscape. Getting your hands in the soil. Teaching someone else. Building lasting stewardship of the land you inhabit.
Every lesson, guide and field method for each stage is here, free.
The aim is enough people healing land that healing land becomes normal.
Answer five questions and the Path will meet you where you are. You can skip this and stay at the first stage.
The Planet Healer Path
Five stages, from first awareness to long-term stewardship.
The Practice and Where to Begin
Find where you are on the Path, and take your next real step.
Awakening
Learn how ecosystems work and why they break down. Start noticing. The sit spot practice anchors everything: ten minutes a day, outside, with your senses open.
Ripple: A Field Guide to HopeComing Home to NatureSpecies Identification Starter GuideSave your practice to track where you are.
Seeing
Learn to read a landscape: soil, water, species, disturbance history. Your species journal grows. The daily prompts shift from sensory to ecological.
Fundamentals of Ecosystem Restoration: EcologyReading Your LandscapeSave your practice to track where you are.
Doing
Hands in the soil. Plan and carry out restoration on a real site, planting natives, removing invasives, tending what you've started. The work is real, logged, and part of a collective effort.
Restoration Project Planning TemplateFundamentals of Ecosystem Restoration: PracticeLiving Soil in Seven StepsThe Ultimate Guide to BiocharWorking with WaterPropagation and Nursery TechniquesTrees of LifePrairie WildWild WetlandsSyntropic AgricultureA Permaculture Design ManualSave your practice to track where you are.
Teaching
Pass it on. Mentor, lead, create content from your own experience. Answering questions, guiding newcomers, sharing what you've learned in the field.
Teacher Training GuideThe Workshop Design KitSave your practice to track where you are.
Log the small and large acts of passing it on.
No teaching acts yet.
Building
Long-term stewardship. Start or join a restoration community. The practice becomes the way you live and the work outlasts you.
The Community Restoration ToolkitBuilding holds you. There's no finish to reach. Keep going, and circle back to any stage whenever the ground calls.
Log the steps you're taking to make the work last.
No building acts yet.
ERC Restoration Roadmap
Course materials and the step-by-step roadmap from Ecosystem Restoration Communities. Opens the ERC community (sign-in required).
Keeping the Path going
There's a support button here. It holds nothing back, because nothing in this app is locked. If the Path has helped and you're able, what you give widens the ripple: the app stays up, and someone who'd never pay for any of this finds it and starts healing a piece of ground. Give through whichever door you're already standing at.
Support monthly on PatreonIf cost is ever the barrier to time on the land with us, the field intensive or a skill stay, write to planethealer1@yahoo.ca with the subject Access Fund. Nobody's turned away.