THE OAK TREEHOUSE

A Healing Lodge for Veterans Seeking Purpose, Peace, and Power Beyond Service

A Vanguard Minds Initiative | 501(c)(19) Status Pending

Nu Mission

The Oak Treehouse Lodge is a global sanctuary for veterans who are ready to reconnect—with themselves, with community, and with the land. We offer holistic rehabilitation through herbal medicine, fellowship, regenerative farming, skill-building, and spiritual recalibration.

This is not a clinic. Not a VFW.
This is a return to purpose—on your own terms.

Make it

The Oak Tree House is the veteran-focused arm of Vanguard Minds, adapting all of our programs and modalities with an exclusive focus on veterans, including those stationed or choosing to live abroad. Our mission includes support for veterans' families and global outposts—ensuring community, healing, and reintegration for those both stateside and internationally.

FOR VETERANS

If you've ever served, you’ve earned a place at this table. Whether you're stateside or abroad, just coming home or still finding your way—we hold space for you to reconnect, recalibrate, and reimagine your next mission.

Member Benefits:

  • Access to healing lodges and daily services

  • Battle Buddy peer support program

  • Workshops in herbalism, farming, mechanics, and the arts

  • Optional travel retreats in Costa Rica and Jamaica

  • First-in access to future Oak Tree Lodge sites

👉 [Join as a Founding Member]
👉 [Request Info / Sponsor a Membership]— Quote Source

HOW WE FUND BEFORE GRANTS

HELP US KEEP THE KETTLE WARM

We are raising $25,000 to support:

  • Daily healing space operations

  • Retreat access for underserved veterans

  • Herbal supplies, tools, veteran stipends

  • Global outpost support (Costa Rica & Jamaica)

Ways to Support:

  • $10/month: Keeps the cacao flowing

  • $25/month: Sponsors herbs & space use

  • $100–$250 one-time: Join the Founders Circle

  • Custom Sponsorship: Fund veteran travel, housing, or project kits

WHY IT WORKS

Because it’s built on what we already have:
Land. Herbs. Fellowship. Skill. Story. Purpose.

We’re not creating a program.
We’re restoring a village—and veterans are its first seeds.

Our Locations & Global Outposts

A Growing Network of Sacred Spaces for Veteran Healing

At The Oak Treehouse Lodge, we believe the journey home can look many different ways—sometimes it means returning to the land, and sometimes it means never leaving it. Our veteran community is global. That’s why our healing work happens not just in one place, but in many places—each one rooted in Earth, spirit, and sovereignty.

These aren’t just locations.
They are living lodges, fire circles, and places where veterans can heal, create, and reconnect—no matter where they are in the world.

— Quote Source

CURRENT OUTPOST LOCATIONS

  • Hemp House

    Hemp House – 9645 East Colonial Drive, Orlando, Florida – Urban Outpost: cacao bar, tea tea ceremonies, herbal education, Music recording, markets, festivals, and event space for Oak Tree gatherings

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  • Sip Café

    SIP Café, Haines City, FL – Daily Healing Hub: tea, cacao, chess, workshops, peer connection

    Active Daily Programming
    Type: Healing Café Outpost

    Our first stateside healing lodge, SIP Café hosts daily Oak Tree sessions from 9 AM to 4 PM. Veterans can drop in for ceremonial cacao and tea, chess, books, the Listening Bench, and casual fellowship.
    It’s not a program—it’s a presence. Come as you are, stay as long as you like.

    Services:

    Tea & Cacao Healing Bar

    Battle Buddy peer presence

    Chess, Journaling & Yoga

    Herbal workshops and career center.

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  • Cahuita Wildlife Lodge

    Cahuita Wildlife Lodge, Costa Rica – Immersion retreats: farming, nature rehab, cacao ceremony.

    Global Nature Healing Outpost/ Farm School

    This space offers veterans a return to rhythm. Through ceremonial farming, jungle immersion, cacao harvests, and sacred silence, veterans can re-encounter their spirit in the Earth’s embrace.

    🌱 Experiences:

    Jungle healing & land-based therapy

    Organic cacao cultivation

    Drum & fire ceremony nights

    Regenerative rehab circles

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  • Sacred Space Center

    provide a safe, supported, natural & healing environment for guests coming here on retreat. The primary intention for offering a space like this is to maximize your opportunity for healing, growth, clarity, & expansion during your stay at Sacred Space.

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  • Indigenous Rastafari Village

    Global Cultural Exchange Site Ancestral Ceremonial Lodge

    Rastafari communities of Jamaica, this site opens a spiritual circle for veterans seeking reconnection to ancestral memory. Drumming, chanting, herbal education, and sacred work on the land offer recalibration for the soul.

    Offerings:

    Ancestral herbal workshops

    Cultural healing ceremonies

    Sound & spirit recalibration

    Global warrior brother/sisterhood

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BECOME PART OF THE NETWORK

We’re not just creating lodges—we’re reawakening a tribe.
The Oak Tree House is actively building partnerships with:

  • Farms & healing centers

  • Indigenous communities

  • Veterans living abroad

  • Herbal educators and spiritual spaces

If you’re a veteran abroad or a land steward aligned with our mission, we invite you to build with us.

👉 [Become a Global Outpost or Partner]
👉 [Join Our Veteran Circle – Membership Info]

WANT TO JOIN OR SUPPORT?

  • Veterans – Apply for membership

  • Donors – Join the monthly circle

  • Founders – Become one of the first 100 to be written into the roots

  • Partners – Offer space, land, or skills

NEXT MILESTONES

  • Access VA & state grants

  • Secure first Oak Tree House building in Florida

  • Launch international veteran retreats (Costa Rica, Jamaica)

  • Train peer support team (Battle Buddies)

  • Open online membership + donation platform