Adult Workshops & Programs
Nature Awareness Workshop
Our Wilderness Awareness program allows you to explore the rhythms of nature, hone your senses, and renew your feeling of wonder in the everyday. While traditional meditation quiets the mind to look inward, we will quiet the mind to interact with nature and the world in a clearer way.
Cordage College-Fiber Tech
We will go from basic techniques for making strong, beautiful, useful string, to advanced, clever, faster, more efficient string making. We will try out ingenious specialized tools for spinning and cording plant and animal fibers.
Primitive Cooking Workshop
We will cook a variety of wild and natural foods without using modern store-bought utensils. Learn tricks and techniques of working with a cooking fire, clay pots, stone griddles, gourds, sticks and cordage. We will learn how to boil, bake, steam, roast and fry foods. Two gourmet meals WILL result!
Wilderness Skills Apprenticeships
Ancestral Knowledge’s Wilderness Skills Apprenticeship program is an in-depth hands-on study of ancient skills. This program is designed for those who want to learn the science of tracking, awareness, and primitive skills required to live in the old-ways.
Self Bow Building Workshop
The Bow Building Workshop engages the participants in the ancient fine art of bow making; learning to delicately carve and shape a single piece of wood into a beautiful and efficient survival tool. This is a five day long workshop where you will experience the complete process of bow making.
Fire by Friction Workshop
During this workshop you will create your very own bow drill fire making kit. We will teach you how to make rope with natural fibers found in plants that grow locally in our region. You will learn proper material identification and selection, proper fire structures, and tinder collection. We will also teach several other fire making techniques including; Hand drill, pump drill, and the fire saw.
Arrow Making Workshop
This weekend workshop teaches the complete process of primitive arrow making from harvesting your own shafts to testing spine weight. Two methods of arrow straightening will be covered and you will learn how to make pine pitch adhesive and process sinew for fletching and hafting.
Wild Edibles and Useful Plant Workshop
This is a guided walk through different habitats, identifying, collecting and frequent sampling wild plant foods. Course will cover approximately 40 plants, shrubs and trees. We will cover proper identification and use of these plants, whether plants are native or introduced, when and where to safely collect plants and conservation techniques.
Flint Knapping Workshop
Our Flint Knapping class we will you back in time – learning the ancient skills of stone tool making. We will teach you the proper forms and techniques to knap, 7 stages of reduction including spalling, percussion flaking, and bi-facing, and the more advanced techniques of pressure flaking, sharpening and notching.
Primitive Trapping Workshop
This course will teach the application, and theory of trapping. The class will focus on survival trapping, for food, tools, and shelter. After taking this class, you can expect to have the skills necessary to make effective traps and snares, anywhere in the temperate world.
Primitive Fishing Course
This course will teach skills and techniques of primitive fishing. Fish is a excellent source of protein and the most readily available source of food in a survival situation. Almost all lakes and streams contain fish of edible species in them. After taking this class, you can expect to have the skills necessary to create an effective fishing system in under 3 hours.
Wilderness Survival Weekend
Our wilderness survival program gives you the opportunity to learn how to provide yourself with the basic needs to stay alive in any survival situation. Whether lost, stranded, or in a state of emergency, our program will fill the void of ignorance when it comes to taking care of yourself, friends, and family.
