Our work spans three interconnected paths:
- Regenerative Farming — growing food and medicine, managing animals, and restoring land through ecological practices.
- Resilient Design & Learning — guiding home and land owners, aspiring professionals, and community leaders through courses, mentorship, and consulting services.
- Community Building — creating spaces for learning, worship, and collaboration that inspire stewardship and connection.
Whether you’re a family seeking abundance on your land, a professional pursuing permaculture design skills, or a community leader building resilience in your region, Sun and Bloom Farms exists to support your journey.
Permaculture Design Certification Farm Immersion 2026
10-day hands-on permaculture design & practice course at Sun & Bloom Farms in September 2026.
This is the registration and payment page for the In-Person Permaculture Design Certification Farm Immersion 2026, a 10-day hands-on permaculture design course at Sun & Bloom Farms in September 2026.
Before registering, please make sure you have fully read the course description, including the schedule, lodging options, meals, participation expectations, cancellation policy, and payment details.
Tuition
Standard Tuition: $2,500
Early Bird Tuition: $2,000 — available through July 4, 2026
Early Enrollment Tuition: $2,250 — available through August 15, 2026
To reserve your place, please choose your payment option below. If needed, a $500 non-refundable deposit reserves your spot and locks in your tuition rate at the time of registration. Remaining balances are due by August 15, 2026.
After registering, you will receive a welcome packet within 24 hours, along with an additional participant form to complete. This form helps us learn more about you, your lodging plans, dietary considerations, accessibility needs, and any other important details before the course begins.
We’re so excited to welcome you to the farm.
A Note on Early Tuition & Community Support
If you are registering early and have the financial means to pay the full standard tuition, we deeply appreciate you choosing to do so.
Paying the full tuition, even during an early registration window, helps us make this course more accessible to others through limited work-trade opportunities, partial scholarships, and community-supported participation for people who may not otherwise be able to attend.
In the spirit of People Care, your contribution helps strengthen the learning village we are building together.
Thank you for supporting not only your own learning, but the possibility of someone else’s.
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Natural Beekeeping Mentorship
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Learn Beekeeping the Way It Was Meant to Be
Hands-On. Seasonal. Deeply Rooted in Nature.
Sun & Bloom Farms | Lebanon, Missouri
This Is Not a Typical Beekeeping Class
Most people learn beekeeping from books, YouTube—or one-off workshops.
But bees don’t live in theory.
They live in seasons, in patterns, in relationship.
This mentorship gives you something different:
→ Real experience inside active hives
→ Guidance across an entire beekeeping season
→ A natural approach that prioritizes hive health and resilience
You won’t just learn about bees.
You’ll learn how to work with them.
Why This Matters Now
Bees are in decline - and how we keep them matters.
Most modern practices focus on production - this mentorship focuses on long-term hive vitality, ecological balance, and regeneration.
If you care about:
- Growing clean food
- Restoring land
- Supporting pollinators
- Or becoming a more conscious beekeeper
This work is essential.
Learn Directly From a Leading Natural Beekeeper
This mentorship is guided by Anna Maria, a beekeeper and bee guardian since 2012.
Her work goes far beyond hobbyist beekeeping:
- Taught 1,500+ students in natural beekeeping across 3 states
- Trained over 100 natural beekeepers through apprenticeship programs
- Presented at high level national and international natural beekeeping symposiums, including at UCLA
- Received deep training in Master Natural Beekeeping at prestigious UC Davis program
- Led a regenerative hive rescue and relocation business since 2012
- Consulted and contributed scientific research to land-based ecological projects, including work connected with companies such as NVIDIA
- Featured in multiple documentaries on bees and regenerative land stewardship, including widely viewed featured film about Honey and Honey Bees with Zooey Deschanel
This is a rare opportunity to learn from someone operating at a high level in this field.
Community Apiary Mentorship (layer 1 program)
A Small, Hands-On Learning Experience
Second Wednesday of each month | April–November
April 8, May 13, June 10, July 8, August 12, September 9, October 14, November 11
90–120 minute sessions
Maximum 5 participants
This is intentionally small.
Why? Because you’ll be:
- Opening hives
- Handling frames
- Observing real hive dynamics
- Asking questions in real time
This is not a demonstration. It’s participation.
What You’ll Experience
Each session, you’ll step into the living world of the hive:
- Guided hive inspections
- Understanding seasonal changes
- Recognizing signs of health or stress
- Learning when—and when not—to intervene
- Occasional harvesting (when in season)
You’ll also receive:
- Session handouts with key concepts and seasonal guidance
- Foundational insights into natural beekeeping
- Ongoing context—even if you join later in the season
Why Most People Choose the Full Season
Beekeeping only makes sense when you see the whole cycle.
Spring, summer, and fall each bring:
- Different behaviors
- Different risks
- Different decisions
When you follow the hive across the full season, you begin to:
- Anticipate problems before they happen
- Understand timing and rhythm
- Build real confidence
This is where the learning clicks.
Who This Is For
- You’re thinking about getting bees—but want experience first
- You already have bees and want better guidance
- You’re drawn to natural, ecological practices
- You want to learn in a real, working apiary
You do not need your own hive.
What to Bring
- Beekeeping suit (recommended)
- Boots or closed-toe shoes
No suit?
→ We provide one for $20 per session
Investment
Monthly
$50 per session
Full Season (April–November)
8 sessions total
$400 → $360 (10% off)
Discount available only when committing to the full season.
Limited to 5 People
This is not scalable by design.
Once spots are filled, enrollment closes.
If you’re serious about learning this season, we recommend securing your place early.
Private Beekeeping Mentorship (layer 2 program)
Personalized Support for Faster Growth
For those who want deeper, one-on-one guidance.
Includes:
- Monthly private session (90–120 minutes)
- Flexible scheduling
- Hands-on hive work
- Personalized strategy and troubleshooting
Additional Support
- Direct communication between sessions
- Up to 1–2 hours of additional guidance when needed
- Access to curated learning resources
Ideal if you:
- Are starting your own apiary
- Want expert guidance along the way
- Prefer a more customized experience
$100 per month | Limited availability
Full Season Commitment (April–November)
8 sessions total
$800 → $720 (10% off)
This is the only opportunity to receive a discounted rate for the full private mentorship season.
Why Learn at Sun & Bloom Farms
You’re not just learning beekeeping.
You’re stepping into:
- A working regenerative system
- A deeper relationship with land and ecology
- A way of working with nature, not against it
And learning from someone who has spent over a decade doing exactly that.
Reserve Your Spot
Spots are extremely limited.
Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems - Guidebook - 1st Edition - eBook
A practical digital book on regenerative soil, fertility, and living systems.
“After purchase, you will instantly first receive a confirmation email and receipt, and then a second email with your personal digital license within 24 hours.”
This book was created for farmers, gardeners, homesteaders, students, land stewards, permaculture practitioners, ecological designers, and anyone who wants to understand and work with soil and soil fertility as a living system.
It brings together practical guidance, ecological principles, and field-based knowledge for working with soil life, compost, organic matter, minerals, plant health, nutrient cycling, and regenerative fertility systems. It is designed to be both a teaching resource and a long-term companion for people who are learning how to care for land, grow food, and build fertility in a way that supports life.
Inside, you will find a grounded introduction to regenerative soil and fertility work, along with practical frameworks for seeing the relationships between plants, microbes, minerals, compost, water, organic matter, and the larger living landscape.
This first digital edition is independently published and offered as a personal digital license.
This Book has a 4 part online master course associated with it that can be experienced as a recording with a large library of resources or live with assistance and consulting. Details and registration: https://www.sunandbloomfarms.com/store/p91/soil-regeneration-online.html
About the Author
Lucian Toma is a farmer, educator, ecological designer, and the founder of Sun and Bloom Farms. His work brings together over a decade of professional experience in permaculture, regenerative agriculture, soil fertility, compost systems, ecological design, teaching, and hands-on land stewardship. Through his farm, courses, writing, and community work, Lucian helps people understand how to work with living systems to grow food, restore soil, and create more beautiful and resilient landscapes.
First Digital Edition Launch Price: $43
What you will receive:
One personal digital license for the first digital edition of the book.
Delivery (IMPORTANT):
After purchase, you will receive a confirmation email. Your personal digital license will be issued manually and delivered by email after that. In many cases delivery may happen quickly, but please allow up to 24 hours during the launch period.
Look inside:
The preview images include the book cover and selected opening pages from the first chapters so you can get a feel for the depth, tone, and structure of the book.
An Invitation to Respect and Support This Work
This purchase is for personal use only. Please do not copy, upload, resell, distribute, or publicly share the file.
Thank you for supporting this work. Your purchase helps make it possible for this teaching, writing, farming, and soil education work to continue growing and reaching more people.
Warmly,
Lucian Toma
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Master Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems - 4 Part Online Course - Self-Paced or Live
4-Part Online Course with Optional Certification
Healthy soil is not just dirt. It is a living system where physical structure, mineral balance, organic matter, water, air, roots, microbial life, plants, animals, and human management all interact over time.
Master Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems is a practical 4-part online course designed to help gardeners, homesteaders, farmers, orchard keepers, market gardeners, permaculture students, and land stewards understand soil more deeply and begin building fertility with intention.
This course is about learning how soil works, how to read what soil is telling us, and how to design living fertility systems that fit a real garden, farm, homestead, orchard, food forest, landscape, or project.
It can be taken as a self-guided recorded course, as a certification course, or as a full supported live online cohort.
Why This Course Matters
Many people are trying to grow food and steward land in soils that are compacted, imbalanced, low in organic matter, low in biological activity, or simply not well understood. Too often, the answer is to buy another product or add another input. But long-term fertility comes from understanding the system.
When we begin to understand soil physically, chemically, and biologically, we can make better decisions. We can build organic matter, improve structure, support biology, cycle nutrients, reduce waste, and become less dependent on purchased fertility over time.
This course helps you move from guessing to observing, testing, interpreting, and designing.
What We’ll Cover
Part 1 — Soil Foundations
We begin by understanding soil as a living system. We look at the physical, chemical, and biological dimensions of soil, including texture, structure, aggregation, compaction, organic matter, pH, nutrients, roots, microbes, and the soil food web. The goal is to understand what soil is before we try to improve it.
Part 2 — Reading & Testing Soil
We learn how to observe, test, and interpret soil more clearly. This session includes practical field observation, texture-by-feel, jar testing, aggregation, infiltration, pH, basic chemical interpretation, biological indicators, plant-based clues, and simple ways to ask: What is this soil telling me?
Part 3 — Building Living Fertility Systems
This is where we turn understanding into action. We explore cover crops, mulch systems, compost, vermicompost, compost extracts and teas, biological inputs, biofertilizers, natural farming approaches, and the role animals can play in cycling fertility. The focus is not on memorizing recipes. The focus is learning how to choose soil-building strategies that fit your actual context.
Part 4 — Integration, Soil Microscopy & Discussion
In the final module, we bring the whole course together. We look at soil microscopy, compare different soil and compost conditions, discuss how to interpret what we are seeing, and begin integrating the course into a practical regenerative soil and fertility plan for one area of your project.
What’s Included in the Recorded Course
The recorded course includes:
- The newest recording of the full 4-part course
- Four recorded modules
- PDF copies of the course presentations
- Four resource sections connected to the modules
- Downloadable full-length soil, compost, cover crop, and biology resources where they are publicly available or legally shareable
- Additional links to recommended books and resources that may be purchased separately
- Practical exercises for each module
- The digital edition of Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems
- Access to the course materials through the course module system
This option is best for people who want to study at their own pace and apply the material independently.
Price: $193
Recorded Course + Certification
This option includes everything in the recorded course, plus the certification path. To complete the certification, participants submit the practical exercise for each of the four modules. These exercises help you apply the course directly to your own soil, land, garden, farm, homestead, orchard, food forest, or project. The certification path includes:
- Full access to the recorded course
- Digital book included
- All four module exercises
- Submission and review of each exercise
- Communication with the course instructor as needed
- A final Zoom conversation, up to 60 minutes
- Review of your final soil and fertility systems plan
- Certificate issued after successful completion
This option is best for people who want accountability, feedback, and a completed certification connected to a real project.
Price: $343
Full Supported Live Bundle — August 2026 Cohort
This is the most supported version of the course. The Full Supported Live Bundle includes everything in the recorded course and certification path, plus participation in the live online August cohort. We will meet live on Zoom for four Thursday evening sessions. Each session includes the teaching material, space for questions, and approximately 30–45 minutes of live discussion with course participants.
Live participation gives you accountability, fresh conversation, access to any new or updated content shared during the cohort, and the opportunity to receive feedback while you are working through the exercises.
The Full Supported Live Bundle includes:
- Four live online Zoom sessions
- Access to the newest course recordings
- PDF presentations
- Four module resource sections
- Downloadable resources and recommended reading links
- Digital edition of Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems
- Practical exercises for each module
- Certification path included
- Live Q&A and discussion after each session
- Feedback on exercises as the course progresses
- Up to two hours of additional support with Lucian
The two hours of additional support may be used for certification conversation, project interpretation, soil questions, or personal consulting related to your garden, farm, homestead, orchard, landscape, or soil project.
Price: $493
Live Course Schedule
Thursdays in August 2026 - 7:00 PM Central Time - Live on Zoom
- Session 1: August 6
- Session 2: August 13
- Session 3: August 20
- Session 4: August 27
Each session will include teaching, discussion, and time for questions.
Book Only
The course is based on the same core body of work as the guidebook Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems. The book can also be purchased separately for those who want the written guide without the course experience. The book is ideal if you want the core framework, explanations, and exercises in a self-directed format.
Book Launch Price: $43
To purchase the book, please go to: https://www.sunandbloomfarms.com/store/p93/regenerative-soil-fertility-guidebook.html
Already purchased the book? Contact us for a $43 upgrade credit toward the recorded course or live bundle.
For those who want to go deeper, the course provides the visual teaching, recordings, expanded resources, discussion, optional certification, and support for applying the material to a real project.
After You Purchase
- After purchasing, you will first receive an email confirmation of your chosen purchase.
- A follow-up email with details of your purchase will be sent within 24 hours.
For the recorded course, this follow-up will include information for accessing the course modules, recordings, PDFs, exercises, digital book, and resources.
For the certification option, it will also include instructions for submitting exercises and completing the certification process.
For the Full Supported Live Bundle, it will include the August course schedule, Zoom details, module access information, and instructions for participating in the live cohort.
A Google or Gmail account may be needed to access some course materials and shared module resources.
Who This Course Is For
This course is for gardeners, homesteaders, small farmers, orchard keepers, market gardeners, permaculture students, land stewards, and anyone who wants to understand soil regeneration in a practical and grounded way.
You do not need to already be an expert. You only need curiosity, commitment, and a willingness to observe, test, learn, and begin working with soil as a living system.
Instructor short Bio
Lucian Toma is the creator and instructor of Master Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems and the author of the Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems Guidebook, a practical guide for reading, building, and managing living soil in gardens, orchards, farms, and designed landscapes. His work brings together more than a decade of teaching, farming, composting, vermicomposting, permaculture design, soil fertility education, and hands-on land stewardship through Sun and Bloom Farms. Lucian teaches soil as a living system and helps students learn how to understand, observe, test, and design regenerative fertility systems for real gardens, farms, homesteads, orchards, and land-based projects.
Closing Invitation
If you are ready to understand your soil more deeply, build fertility more intelligently, and begin creating systems that grow stronger over time, this course was created for you. This is not just about adding compost or choosing a cover crop. It is about learning how to work with living soil more skillfully.
- Understand soil.
- Read what it is telling you.
- Build fertility through living systems.
- Manage and observe over time.
- Keep learning from the land.
Tallow Soap - All Organic Ingredients
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Nourishing Skin
Tallow has been used for centuries as a nourishing skincare ingredient, and for good reason. Rich in vitamins A, D, E, and K, as well as essential fatty acids, tallow closely resembles the natural oils in our own skin. This makes it deeply moisturizing, easily absorbed, and gentle—even for sensitive or dry skin. Unlike many commercial ingredients, tallow helps restore the skin’s natural barrier, keeping it soft, supple, and protected without clogging pores.
When transformed into soap, tallow creates a luxurious, creamy lather that cleanses without stripping away your skin’s natural moisture. The result is a bar that’s simple, wholesome, and incredibly effective for everyday use. Our whole family uses this soap everyday with great results.
Handmade tallow soap is not just skincare—it’s a return to traditional, time-tested nourishment for your skin.
Our tallow soap is made with local grass fed tallow, olive oil, coconut oil, castor oil, lye, water, detoxing clay, and essential oils. All of our ingredients are organic.
Price: $6 + shipping (can be picked up on our farm also)
Size: 3.5 oz
Fragrances available:
Lavender and Charcoal
Citrus and Lemongrass
Cedar-wood and Cypress
Rosemary & Lemon
We fulfill orders to ship on Wednesdays only.
Thank you for your support of our small business!
Herbal Vinegar
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Daily Tonic or Flavor in Cooking
Superstar organic apple cider vinegar paired with nutrient rich organic stinging nettles make this beautiful herbal vinegar. The herbs have been infusing their medicinal and flavor benefits into the vinegar for 2 months. Use it as a daily tonic diluted in your favorite beverage or in your cooking. Amazing on salads!
Price: $12 regular
The full bottle weighs 1 pound and has 8 fluid ounces of this beautiful, tasty creation.
We fulfill orders to ship on Wednesdays only.
Thank you for your support of our small business!
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Herbal Olive Oil
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Healing Culinary Flavor
We infused this gorgeous olive oil from Olea Farm on the central coast of California with a combination of culinary herbs like rosemary, oregano, thyme, and garlic from our farm for two months. The flavors are magical.
Price: $18 regular - $16 for a limited time only
The full bottle weighs 1 pound and has 8 fluid ounces of this beautiful, tasty creation.
We fulfill orders to ship on Wednesdays only.
Thank you for your support of our small business!
Healing Salve - Cooling
Our Brand New Salve
A handcrafted salve to help alleviate hot and burning skin conditions like hives, rashes, eczema and burns. Ideal also for lymphatic massage and fluid movement within the body. This cool salve contains olive oil, beeswax, wild harvested Violet leaf and Plantain.
Price: $15 + shipping (can be picked up on our farm also)
Size: 2 oz
Sourcing:
Herbs/plants: Sun And Bloom Farms - Missouri
Beeswax: Sun And Bloom Farms - Missouri (cared for naturally with treatment free methods)
Olive oil: Temecula Olive Oil Company - our Southern California friends
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