Saturday, September 25, 10 a.m., SHELTER SKILLS, part of our Weekend Warrior Series. Let’s take a look at the shelters you might have in your backyard, as well as make-shift shelters from tarps. Are there ready-to-occupy shelters in the woods? What sort of shelters would you be able to...
FORAGING WALKABOUT: WILD FOOD & USEFUL PLANTS, with Focus on FIRE and WEAVING plants
FORAGING USEFUL WILD PLANTS -- for FIRE, WEAVING, and EDIBLE, MEDICINAL, UTILITARIAN -- May 31, 10 a.m. We will explore a watershed area, seeing native and introduced plants. Our focus today will be to learn about those plants that are used for making FIRE and those which are used for...
SHELTER WORKSHOP — mid-day
SHELTER. Thursday, August 11, noon. Today, we will focus upon wilderness shelters. You’ll get to set up a few modern shelters, but mostly we’ll work on a few of the more traditional sorts of shelters that you’d construct strictly from the wild. These include the body hollow, the lean-to, and...