Rooted: Surviving and thriving
A Winter Deep Dive
December · January · February
Six people. apply below.
Do you feel a deep pull to live more in rhythm with the seasons?
To live closer to the land and nourish yourself with truly alive food?
If we had a nickel for every time someone said, “Wow… this is how people should be living. I wanna live this way…”
That’s why we created this immersion.
So many people come to our home and say, “This is my dream. This is how I want to live.”
Well, if you’re really feeling that—truly feeling it—come see what it’s actually like.
We’re not claiming to do it the right way, or the perfect way. We’re on the journey.
And that’s the beauty of homesteading—it’s not a destination. It’s a path.
How It Works
Are you ready to go deep? To get wild? This is a chance to really commit, with a group of likeminded individuals, to something that will help you build consistency, ritual, and practical skills. To weave in what you know to be necessary into your life, no matter where you are right now.
Each month there will be one deep dive and seasonal celebration where we will connect as a group and work on projects and learn new skills. We will host weekly classes where you can really get your hands dirty and learn lifelong skills. You’ll have your own private consult, a printed out workbook, plus a whatsapp group to ask questions. You can come to every class, or pick the ones that tickle your fancy. Just about everything we offer on the homestead is included in this cohort.
Sunday Deep Dive — 4-5 hours, once a month
Whole-animal processing, wild fermentation, fire cooking, ancestral skills, homestead-to-table meal.
Sunday Morning Class — 2–3 hours, 1x/month
Sourdough bread, cheese making, meat curing, medicine making, incense and candles, body butter from the fat you rendered.
Wednesday Evening Classes ×2 — 2 hours each, 2x/month
Practical, embodied skills — seasonal cooking, preservation, seed starting, garden planning.
Private Consult — 60 minutes.
One-on-one with Yoshua or Aja. Your land or ours, your setup, your questions, a plan tailored to your specific needs.
Seasonal Arc
December
Process · Preserve · Store
Humane and hands on animal Slaughter of a goat
Meat curing
Fat rendering
Fermenting vegetables
Candle making
Incense crafting
Winter Solstice gathering
January
Nourish · Tend · Rest
Fire by friction
Herbal medicine cabinet
Tallow body butter
Cheese from raw milk
Sourdough bread and desserts
February
Wake · Start · Rise
Seed starting
Design your garden
Mead, vinegar, wild soda
Imbolc Seasonal Gathering
The Details
Dates: December 1st, 2026 - February 28th, 2027
Location: You Enjoy Life Homestead in N. Boulder
Investment: $1250 if paid in full or $500 a month for three months
Limited to 6 participants for deep connection and personalized experience.
About Yoshua & Aja
Yoshua Greenfield has been foraging for food for over 15 years, engaged in homesteading for nearly ten, and cooking ever since his mom told him, “If you don’t like my cooking, then do it yourself!” He carries a deep passion for teaching others to find inspiring and simple ways to deepen their connection to the things they consume. While Yoshua has been living this life for quite some time, he grew up in the Suburbs and found this love for tending land well into his life. He is merely a reminder that anyone can start at any time.
As a lover of all things nature, he spends much of his time tending to various foods and animals around our home, hiking barefoot in the woods while foraging for medicinal and edible plants, and fermenting and preserving just about everything under the sun. For 7 years, he hosted an alternative cooking show that attracted millions of viewers but eventually left that world behind to focus on connecting with place and community, using food as a vehicle for inspiration, connection, growth, and well-being.
Aja Rose has spent the last decade in the health and wellness space and has dedicated the past 5 years to immersing into herbal medicine, cooking, wild foraging, and gardening. She is passionate about connecting with the ‘medicine of place’ and forming reciprocal relationships with the spirits of the plants and trees we feel naturally drawn to. She deeply resonates with the homesteading way of life and will be a forever student in it.
Collectively, we have been tending to the land together for nearly five years, welcomed in our first child Amiya 2.5 years ago, and hold a deep reverence for the sacred land we inhabit (but never truly own). We’ve found the magic in the mundane, the medicine in our connection to place, and the sacred joy and deep peace that arise from reverence and careful listening.
After noticing how many people in and around Boulder have been feeling deeply burnt out by what we call “the healing trap”—a never-ending cycle of always looking inward to find more things wrong with ourselves to “improve”—we sensed a growing desire of more people wanting to learn practical skills that are inherently healing. We like to say that healing always happens when we are present and listening. In this way, as we move away from the self-obsessed culture of trying to constantly improve upon things we were told were wrong, we begin to give back, to engage in actions that support not only ourselves but also the people and land around us.
Location
Located just 10 minutes from downtown Boulder, You Enjoy Life Homestead is a 5-acre farm property that is nestled against the foothills. With a long-term focus on education, we raise animals, grow our own food, host community events, offer retreats, and are creating a sanctuary for children to grow up closer to the land. This space is also a living classroom—teaching us how to live more harmoniously with this sacred land. Here, you'll have the unique opportunity to witness its beginnings and, with time, become an integral part of a growing community for years to come.
