Stewardship Certification

The only way to achieve Stewardship Certification is to be a Steward!

Sustainable Food

Food for Families - Cooking with basic ingredients - Massood (chef)

Sustainable Farms - Regenerative agriculture. Wade (leaves, high tunnel), Daniel (aquaculture), Cliff Davis (animal husbandry, grazing ecology), Vermiculture, Gardens, Beekeeping, Agroforestry, Silvapasture, Bamboo, soil creation, animal integration, biochar, CSA, agritourism

Sustainable Transportation

Sustainable family finances - Home Economics (use money for goods and services not provided for by community, the family food table, clothing and fashion, limit buying of disposable plastics so it doesnt end up in oceans, no glitter), composting, recycling.

Sustainable Homes

Sustainable Transportation - electric vehicles

Sustainable Energy - wind, solar, thermal, hydro-electric, batteries, microgrids, Ann Hardin (TIPL). Director of WilcoWater

Sustainable Communities - rural (localization, CSA, urban, civil engineering (sustainable cities) -urban gardens, architecture, livable cities, greenways , Sustainabilty across communities Sister Cities (Jason Collins), Franklin Tomorrow (Mindy Tate), Sustainable Heritage (Rick Warrick)

Sustainable Living - Proper relationship with self; social-emotional health. Proper relationship with others (Sustainable beauty), Proper relationship with the land; Providing for your own needs and safety (NVC needs). Search for Meaning (Frankl Inn)

Sustainable STEM - Earth Sciences (Habitat Stewardship,Oceans,Forests, Riparian, Wetlands, Grasslands) Biology - (Plants, Farms, Beaver, pollinators, protecting insects and Rewilding, Aforestation, wildlife corridors).

Sustainable Cultures - Indigeneity

Sustainable Populations - education of women, global medicine, birth control, climate change. Enough children, but not too many

Sustainable Healthcare

The CSS logo of three leaves represents the three pillars of our organization:

Stewardship of the Land -

We protect our watershed, pastures, soil, and forests so we may receive their many blessings.

We do unto downstream as we would have upstream do unto us.

We identify and invest in watershed rural lands to place forest and farmland in the hands of the next generation of stewards.


Stewardship of Others -

We provide safety, resources, support, and encouragement to those around us.

We contribute financial reserves, food to our food bank, or work in our community..

We provide and support education to the future stewards of our various overlapping communities.

Stewardship of Self -

We cultivate our own physical, mental, and spiritual health

We communicate with intention, to understand and uplift.

We treasure our creativity and give ourselves time and place in which to play.