What you carry
Notice which lessons, habits and ways of leading have stayed with you across the four Prairie Paths.
Prairie PathsYour completion gift
The Homestead
The final place to gather what the four paths have taught you.
The Homestead is not sold separately. It is Sweet Grass Co.’s private thank-you gift for people who choose to walk the complete Prairie Paths series.
Free when all four are yours
Purchase all four Prairie Paths books and The Homestead is added to your Sweet Grass account at no charge.
$200 Five-Day credit
Complete The Homestead and you will be able to email yourself a $200 certificate toward a future Sweet Grass Co. Five-Day Experience.
About this book
What this path is about
The Homestead is a private, self-guided leadership journey set on an Alberta Métis homestead, where the lessons of the four Prairie Paths come back together in the ordinary work of everyday life.
Here, leadership is not separated into self, relationship, team or systems. It happens all at once — around the kitchen table, beside the fire, in the barnyard, through changing weather, and in the choices involved in caring for people, animals, land and what comes next.
Across the Homestead you work on recognizing what you have carried forward from the four paths, noticing how you respond when circumstances change, deciding what needs your attention and what does not, understanding where responsibility belongs, and bringing your own way of leading into clearer focus.
Who this book helps
- People who have completed the four Prairie Paths and are ready to bring the lessons together
- Leaders who want to understand how they lead when situations are layered, imperfect and real
- Supervisors, managers, business owners and community leaders carrying responsibility for people and outcomes
- Anyone ready to move from learning about leadership to recognizing how they actually live it
What you will explore
Tending what matters
Recognize what needs your attention, what can wait, and what is yours to care for.
Responsibility and response
Explore how you make decisions when people, priorities and circumstances do not fit neatly into one lesson.
What you leave behind
Bring the four paths together and consider what your leadership makes possible for the people who come after you.
At the end of the path
Bring it home.
The Prairie Paths move from self, to relationship, to team, to the systems that hold people together. The Homestead is where those lessons stop standing apart.
Across fifteen final markers, the work comes together through the life of the Homestead — asking you not simply what you learned, but what you will carry forward, what you will tend, and what kind of leader you are becoming.
This is not another Prairie Path to purchase. It is the place waiting at the end of all four.
How it works
1
Choose your first path
Begin with the Prairie Paths book that meets you where you are.
2
Complete the four-book series
Each book becomes part of the wider leadership journey.
3
Receive your thank-you gift
The Homestead and your $200 Five-Day credit arrive once all four purchases are complete.
Begin anywhere. The whole path is waiting.
The Homestead is waiting at the end as a thank-you—not a fifth thing to buy.
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