Current Status
Help Launch the World Restoration Trade School
WRTS is in the planning, fundraising, and property-acquisition phase. Early support helps move the project from plan to campus, curriculum, and first cohort.
200+ Acres
Planned live-in campus
Up to 85%
U.S. military veterans
4 Tracks
Core vocational pathways
100+
Students per year at planned scale
The Opportunity
Two Challenges. One Practical Solution.
WRTS connects military veterans seeking meaningful civilian careers with the growing need for skilled people who can restore land, locate and develop water, and repair damaged environmental systems.
Veteran Transition
Purpose After Service
Veterans bring discipline, leadership, resilience, and mission focus that translate naturally to hands-on environmental work.
The Bridge
World Restoration Trade School
Vocational training, field experience, and career preparation centered on practical restoration work.
Workforce Need
People Who Can Implement
Communities need trained practitioners who can take proven restoration methods out of reports and put them to work in the field.
How It Works
Learn It. Do It. Build a Career From It.
01
Learn
Build technical knowledge and practical trade skills.
02
Practice
Develop competency through hands-on campus work.
03
Apprentice
Work on real regional projects under expert supervision.
04
Launch
Move into employment, consulting, or entrepreneurship.
Core Training
Four Training Tracks. One Mission.
Water Location
Deep Seated Water technology, geophysical analysis, drilling, well construction, testing, and community water systems.
Skilled Trades
Practical trade training beginning with welding and expanding into additional licensed trade pathways.
Regenerative Agriculture
Soil health, irrigation, crops, livestock systems, regenerative methods, and farm business skills.
Soil & Water Remediation
Contamination assessment, bioremediation, spill response, compliance, and environmental consulting.
Campaign Progress
Help us identify and secure the campus.
Donated and pledged so far: $5,012,000 of $11,000,000
Our Future Home
More Than a Campus: This Is TEO's Future Home
This campus will launch our WRTS graduates, and will also serve as The Earth Organization's permanent U.S. national headquarters.
Founding sponsors aren't just funding the identification and acquisition of a school, they're funding the ground TEO stands on and an international environmental solutions training hub.
Sponsor an Acre
Leave your mark on history.
Founding sponsor tiers are a recognition program. Acreage shown is symbolic recognition and is not a purchase or deed of land.
The World Restoration Trade School will operate on 200+ acres on a ranch/retreat type of property for our campus. Before the first class of veterans arrives, we are opening a founding sponsor registry, a permanent record of the people who helped to make this land possible.
When the property is secured and the campus built, your name goes on the land at the base of a planted tree, on a bench, a boundary marker, or a plaque. Depending on your sponsorship level, you will receive updates as the property search progresses, and you will be among the first to know when land is acquired.
Now Airing
Barbara Wiseman on Our Global Veterans Podcast
Barbara Wiseman joined host Sara Troy to share the vision behind the World Restoration Trade School, a two-year live-in program equipping transitioning veterans with practical skills in regenerative agriculture, water resource development, soil remediation, and entrepreneurship.
Listen to the EpisodeThe Campus
The Campus Is Part of the Classroom.
WRTS is planned as a 200+ acre, live-in campus in the American Southwest with housing, classroom space, on-site land stewardship, regenerative agriculture, and after-class recreational facilities. The property will also serve as a regional hub for water, soil, and land restoration.
Students will apprentice on projects for local farmers and ranchers, municipalities, developers, and other landowners, learning on real land under real conditions.
Current Status
Help Launch the World Restoration Trade School
WRTS is in the planning, fundraising, and property-acquisition phase. Early support helps move the project from plan to campus, curriculum, and first cohort.
Projected Outcomes
What WRTS Is Being Built to Achieve
Business-plan targets for Years 5–6 of program delivery.
75–100
Students enrolled annually
80
Veterans stably launched into new careers each year
100,000
Acres targeted for restoration annually
90%+
Target graduate job placement
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Learn MoreCurrent Status
Help Launch the World Restoration Trade School
WRTS is in the planning, fundraising, and property-acquisition phase. Early support helps move the project from plan to campus, curriculum, and first cohort.