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skills & Craft Practices

Sessions can include any of the following

Nature is the classroom and the inspiration. Our group will meet in a private wooded area with the necessary infrastructure for staying dry and comfortable. Fire will warm cold days, shade and light breezes will cool the warm ones. The experience of being in a circle out in nature crafting with our hands connects us to our ancestral roots - to the lived experience of all of our ancestors.​

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The program focuses on building a deeper understanding and connections with the natural world through project-based skill building. All of the crafts we work on have a deeper source or purpose than the object itself. It's all about understanding the relationships things have to one another.

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Some of the skills we work on include carving wood, friction fire techniques, hand-building ceramics, wood crafting, archery, knife skills, tomahawk and hatchet skills, building skills, leather craft, flint napping, drawing/sketching, hunting, tracking, shelter building, awareness games, story telling and listening.

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Students will have the opportunity to learn a lot about the natural world and ancestral arts. This program is recommended for young students who have the maturity to focus and craft for reasonable periods of time and have a passion for deepening their nature skills and connection.

Mentors

James Horvath & Sage Taub

Tuition

Friction fire

Fire building

Campfire cooking

Art drawing/sketching

Nature Hikes/Wanders

Archery

Flintnapping

Knife care, safety and sharpening

Hunting/trapping/tracking

Tomahawk and knife skills

Leather Crafting

Wild foraging

Wood working and carving

Nature games

Shelter building

Awareness skills

Ceramics/pottery

Soft fiber basketry

Felting

Leather-crafting

Practical Skils

Basic drawing

Sketchbook

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Program Dates

Proposed dates, subject to change

$300 - Covers the 5 week session and lunches

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• Seasonal Skills Sessions will meet for 5 Mondays in a row.

• We will meet on Mondays 9 AM - 3 PM

• We'll hold a session for each season, Winter, Fall, Spring and two 5-day Summer Camp sessions

• It is not a drop-in program and requires a non-refundable payment of $300 up front to register. 

• Payment can be made by cash, Venmo or Paypal.

• All materials and lunch (cooked over the fire as a group) included in tuition.

How to Enroll

Full enrollment requires completion of the following:

• Online Registration and Agreement form

• 3 Waivers and Forms

  • General Assumption of Risk Waiver​

  • Covid-19 Waiver

  • Emergency Contact Information

• $300​ registration/enrollment fee paid in full