empowering pathways to self-reliance

Discover a journey back to nature and unlock essential skills for well-being and self-sufficiency. Our classes are designed to connect you with the earths abundance and empower you to thrive in any circumstance.

our unique class offerings

Cultivate lasting well-being by reconnecting with the earth. In these classes, we learn to break free from our dependance on modern trade routes by becoming familiar with the abundance around us.  Together, we will uncover how to identify, harvest, and utilize the plants and materials right outside our doors for everyday food, holistic medicine, and vital survival needs. Led by an experienced wilderness and ethnobotany instructor.

Practical Wilderness Survival: Part 1 - Shelters & Water Purification

When facing an unexpected night in the woods or a natural disaster, your top priorities are shelter and safe water. This class teaches you how to secure your two most vital needs without relying on modern infrastructure. You will get hands-on experience identifying safe locations, building natural lean-to shelters, tying essential tarp knots, and purifying water from the landscape—including the ancient skill of rock-boiling in a handmade burn bowl.

Date: coming soon! 

Time:10:00am

Place: Stanwood

Cost: $150.00

Practical Wilderness Survival: Part 2: Fire structures and Friction Fire

Fire is the heart of survival—providing warmth, a way to cook, and emotional comfort in the wilderness. In this comprehensive class, we dive deep into the structure of a successful fire. You will learn how to build proper fire lays, select the right materials, and keep a fire alive in challenging, wet conditions.  After hands-on practice with traditional flint and steel, we will dedicate the entire second half of the day to the empowering, ancient art of building a friction fire from scratch.

Date: coming soon!

Time:10:00am

Place: Stanwood

Cost: $150.00

Practical Wilderness Survival: Part 3 - Wild plants - Food, Medicine & Utilitarian uses.

Complete your survival training by learning to utilize the abundance around you. This hands-on class brings us together to gather, identify, and prepare local plants for emergency food and medicine as well as some other utilitarian ways to make use of what nature freely provides.

Date: coming soon!

Time:10:00am

Place: Stanwood

Cost: $150.00

Survival off grid Apothecary: Part 1 - The foundation of Teas and Topicals

Support your health naturally from the inside out. Learn the best techniques for extracting plant medicine through nourishing teas, infusions and decoctions, and get hands-on experience crafting your own soothing herbal salves for everyday skin care.

Date:

Time:10:00am

Place: Stanwood

Cost: $150.00

Survival off grid Apothecary: Part 2 - Mastering Herbal Extractions

Tinctures, herbal vinegars & Oxymels

Date:

Time:10:00am

Place: Stanwood

Cost: $150.00

Crafting Natural Cleaners - Reclaiming your Home and your Health!

Protect your health and the environment by replacing toxic, store-bought cleaners with natural, homemade alternatives. In this fully hands-on class, you will learn how to make an entire toolkit of non-toxic household products from scratch.

  • The Dangers of Commercial Cleaners: Understand the hidden impacts of store-bought chemicals on our bodies and the earth.

  • Distilling Hydrosols: Learn the art of making aromatic plant waters for safe, effective cleaning.

  • Hands-On Crafting: Make and take home your own natural surface scrubs, carpet deodorizer, flea deterrent, and homemade liquid soap.

Date: July 18th

Time:10:00am

Place: Stanwood

Cost: $150.00

Whole health - Mind, Body & Spirit

Basketry

Learn the Twining method of weaving using cattails and other materials to create a basket. 

Date:Nov 7th

Time:10:00am

Place: Stanwood

Cost: $150.00

 

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