2025 class Schedule
MARCH 20-23rd
Opening the Container & inner realm Philosophy
How we heal, getting to know your cohort, wood carving, meditation and breathing
APRIL 24-27th
holistic Survival
Survival Basics: Outer awareness, fire, knife sharpening, carving, survival 101, non-violent communication
MAY 15-18th
Wild edible & Medicinal Plants
Ethical Harvesting & ritual, Appalachian eco-systems, edible & medicinal plants, folklore, Tree ID, Tulip poplar baskets
JUNE 19-22nd
Bone and stone tools
Intro to flint knapping, animal processing, and bone tools, cordage and knots, camouflage
JULY 24-27th
Hide Tanning
Making your own suede deer leather, theory of grain-on leather making
AUGUST 21-24th
Willow Pack Baskets
Weaving willow on the shore of a beautiful lake
SEPTEMBER 18-21st
Village living & Fall foraging
Invite a guest day, Skill share, Nut gathering
OCTOBER 16-19th
Ancestors, Grief, & Shadow
Ancestor feast, grief ritual, cold plunge, nut processing
NOVEMBER 6-9th
Survival II
Solo ceremony, applying what you have learned
Final class: December 4-7th
Leather Sewing & closing
Integration of the year & Closing of the container