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

Sept 3 - Nov 17, 2024

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Experiential Learning

  • College Credit

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

  • Homesteading Skills

    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.

  • Sustainable Farming

    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.

  • Intentional Community

    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.

  • Self-Inquiry

    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.

  • Nature Connection

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

Gap at Glen Brook is a place-based semester program for 18-21 year-olds, nestled on a working farm in rural New England. Our eleven weeks of outdoor, experiential learning focus on developing practical skills to create sustainable lives and communities.

Learn more about our mission.

Dates and Rates

September 3, 2024 - November 17, 2024

$13,800 includes tuition, room, and board

12 Transferrable College Credits with additional $1,750 course fee

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