Adult Programs 

Contact Nick to request a program below.

Survival Shelter

No tent, no sleeping bag – no problem!  This class will give you new confidence to explore your home planet, armed with the know-how to improvise your most important survival necessity directly from the landscape.  Without shelter, for much of the year, you might not last a single night.

In addition to teaching the traditional debris hut structure, this course presents some invaluable innovations on that basic design, which make for a much better shelter: both easier to build and significantly warmer – including a simple way to make a door.

Fundamentals of Fire-making

To build a fire...takes skill, experience and practice.  I recommend BOTH skill AND great fire-starters, so you can light up even with mittens or frozen hands, in bad weather.

• Learn effective fire structure.  
  
• Learn specific plants, bushes and trees to look for.  
  
• Strategies for fire-making in wet conditions.  
  
• Woods to choose, and to avoid.
• Create a portable fire kit you can always carry.

A wild harvested Filipino soup ("labong") that May Joy cooked up; it features bamboo shoots, sassafrass leaves, greebriar shoots and fire-grilled sunfish.

Edible and Useful Plant Walks

Learn your wild edible, toxic, and useful plants.  Save on your grocery bill and improve your health by collecting the wild superfoods that surround us, and are loaded with minerals, antioxidants and other tonic properties.  Fresher than at the farmer's market, and with lots of great flavors to explore -- there is nothing else that compares.   

We will also keep an eye out for fungi to learn, or to avoid (most of them).

Tree Walk

Knowing your trees is key to core survival skills like: 5-minute, one-match fire (especially when wet out), to bow-drill, to shelter building.  Many of our most important wild edibles and medicines are trees.  Learn how to use or not use different woods.  Learning your trees is hugely empowering and satisfying, and will shift your experience of nature.