Part of our Weekend Warrior classes THE SURVIVAL SKILLS YOU SHOULD KNOW -- a field trip and workshop, with an emphasis on shelters. Saturday, August 29, 10 a.m. We will cover many topics in this class, including Water Purification, Making Fire without Matches, Wild Foods, Uses of Yucca, and...
FORAGING WALKABOUT: WILD FOOD & USEFUL PLANTS, with Focus on FIRE and WEAVING plants
FORAGING USEFUL WILD PLANTS -- for FOOD, FIRE, WEAVING, MEDICINAL, and UTILITARIAN -- May 30, 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 food, making fire, and weaving. You will learn...
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...