Keepers Of The Seasons:
Creating Space for the Spirit to Remember
Community Capacity Building Through Traditional Knowledge with Darcy & Jenny Fisher
INTENSIVE COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
Building skills, sovereignty, and intergenerational connection
We Teach Communities Traditional Skills That Build Lasting Capacity
4.5-day intensive workshops designed for First Nations, Tribal communities, and Indigenous organizations. We teach practical skills rooted in traditional knowledge that open pathways to economic possibility, youth engagement, and cultural reconnection.
What makes us different: We run Six Twenty Skincare, a successful Indigenous-owned business. We're published authors. Walking Through the Seasons is a 316-page book documenting our relationships with 66+ plants, seasonal teachings, and the framework for creating intimate connection with the natural world and with yourself.
We both bring years of human services experience working with people in active recovery, those reclaiming themselves, and communities healing from generational harm. Our teaching is patient. We have time for people actively seeking change, those rebuilding, those society has written off. Everything we teach is grounded in self-care and mindfulness. We understand that working with plants and making things by hand is itself healing. This isn't just skills training. It's remembering.
Currently booking: Spring/Summer 2026, Fall 2026, and 2027 workshops
Our Core Offerings
Everything we teach leaves something behind. Skills, equipment, and the ability to teach the next person.
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4.5 days. Hands-on. Equipment stays with your community.
From raw animal fat to a complete skincare line. Rendering, soap, salve, lotion, and cream using a tallow-based emulsion system. Plant oil infusion woven throughout. Business basics available if your community wants them.
You leave with the knowledge, the recipes, and roughly $2,000 in equipment that belongs to you permanently.
Who this serves: Communities building economic development, youth employment, and a full product line from a single traditional raw material.
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4.5 days. Hands-on. Equipment stays with your community.
Bison and elk fat rendered clean using traditional low-heat method. Cold process soap from start to finish. Plant medicine integration throughout. Safety, recipe development, and business basics if desired.
Stop buying soap. Start making it. Stock the gas station, the gift shop, the health center. Employ a young person. Teach the next one.
Who this serves: Communities wanting economic development, youth employment, and traditional skills transmission.
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4.5 days. Adapts to season. Equipment stays with your community.
Spring tonics and early medicines. Summer preservation and oil infusion. Fall salves, root medicine, and winter preparation. Taught in the season it belongs to.
Plant identification, ethical harvesting, infused oils, salves, balms, teas, syrups, and elixirs. Safety protocols and dosage basics included.
Reduces dependency on external healthcare for basic wellness. Connects Elders and youth around the same pot.
Who this serves: Communities wanting health sovereignty, cultural programming, and land-based education.
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3 to 5 days. For tribal departments and service providers.
Current service systems separate Indigenous people from the things that actually build resilience. Land. Cultural practice. Family structure. Traditional knowledge. Community. That separation creates dependency. Indigenous frameworks build capacity instead.
This workshop teaches service providers how to work alongside Indigenous knowledge systems rather than replacing them. The Five Sovereignties framework, Food, Health, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual, offers a model that addresses root causes instead of managing symptoms.
Days 1 and 2 examine where current systems fail and why. Day 3 focuses on Indigenous knowledge integration in practical service delivery. Days 4 and 5 build implementation tools your community can actually use.
Who this serves: Tribal social services, child welfare, health departments, wellness coordinators, youth services, and anyone designing or delivering services in Indigenous communities.
CURRENTLY SCHEDULING
Available for:
Spring/Summer 2026 (limited dates remaining)
Fall 2026
2027 bookings
Timeline: Contact us to discuss your preferred dates. We work with communities to find timing that works.
Investment
All workshops vary by community, program combination, and available funding streams. Contact us to discuss what works for your situation.
Who’s Teaching
Darcy Fisher
Co-Founder | OwnerCouncillor with ʔakisq̓nuk First Nation
Co-owner, Six Twenty Skincare
Co-author, Walking Through the Seasons (320 pages, 66+ plants, framework for intimate relationship with natural world and self)
Wellness Counsellor training, trauma-informed approach
Expertise: Governance, business development, community organizing, human services
Co-owner, Six Twenty Skincare
Co-author, Walking Through the Seasons
Plant medicine practitioner with decades of hands-on knowledge
Daily production and formulation lead for Six Twenty products
Expertise: Plant medicine, skincare formulation, technical precision, human services
Co-Founder | OwnerJenny Fisher
Together we bring: Generational knowledge from our families, traditional teachings from Elders who trusted us to carry it forward, modern formulation science and business experience, deep understanding of human services and community wellness work.
How it Works
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1. Contact Us
Reach out to discuss your community's needs, goals, and timeline.2. Custom Proposal
We create a proposal specific to your community including detailed schedule, equipment list, learning outcomes, and investment breakdown.3. Agreement & Deposit
50% deposit secures your dates. We provide service agreement covering scope, payment terms, and expectations.4. Planning
We work with you to confirm participants, facility requirements, and any special accommodations.5. Workshop Delivery
We show up for 4.5 days, teach hands-on, and leave you with everything you need to keep going.6. You Decide What It Becomes
Equipment stays. Knowledge stays. Skills stay. What you build with it is yours. -
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For those who cannot.
We work with communities facing barriers: limited resources, geographic isolation, economic challenges. We make our teaching accessible and practical.
For those just remembering.
Traditional skills were disrupted. Knowledge was lost. Hands forgot how to make. We help communities remember what ancestors knew.For those yet to come.
Everything we teach is designed to be passed forward. Youth learn from Elders. Skills stay in communities. Knowledge becomes gifts to the next generation.
CONNECT WITH OUR WORK
Six Twenty Skincare: sixtwenty.net
Traditional Indigenous skincare using rendered fats, plant medicines, and biotech activesWalking Through the Seasons: 320 pages documenting relationships with 66+ plants, seasonal teachings, traditional stories, and the framework for creating intimate connection with the natural world and yourself. Available through any book distributor. ISBN: 9798993882000
Speaking Earth Educational Network (S.E.E.N.): Land-based educational programming
Passing forward what was passed to us.
Keepers of the Seasons, LLC
Traditional Knowledge | Modern Practice | Generational Impact
