Wild Abundance

Homesteading and Primitive Skills
Apprenticeship Opportunities

We are well on our way to creating a self-sufficient, off the grid homestead and primitive skills school in the mountains near Boone, North Carolina. We have reached the point where we have extra room, need help, and wish to share what we have learned. If you are interested in learning more about hunting, gathering, gardening, traditional primitive living skills, homesteading, and a more sustainable life style, we can help you learn what you want to know. Here are some of the things we have to offer. We will tailor instruction and projects to suit your interests.

Possible Private Instruction Topics

Primitive Skills

Archery
Primitive Basketry
Flintknapping
Friction Fire
Hide tanning
Buckskin sewing
Cordage
Survival trip
Wild foods cookery
Acorn and nut processing
Primitive Cookery
Primitive Nutrition
Net Making
Homesteading skills:
Herbal first aid
Making wine and mead
Canning, pickling, and pesto making
Garden soils
Survival trip
Cattail hats
Living Simply
Natural Building
Hand tool use and maintenance
Fermenting foods
Knife sharpening
Seed-saving
Traditional woodworking
And many other valuable crafts and skills…

Possible projects

Carpentry
Gardening
Putting up food
Composting
Gathering and preserving wild food
Making medicines from wild plants
Terracing
Building a sweat lodge
Materials gathering for primitive skills classes
Root cellar design and building
Smokehouse building
Beekeeping
Gravity fed spring water irrigation
Chicken Care
Animal processing
Cooking with wild and local food
Building a permacultural landscape
Garden planning
Food drying
Solar power maintenance

Other Benefits

A secluded woodland setting, delicious spring water, good food, kitchen access, hiking, access to our extensive skills and plant library, and the opportunity to create your own private woodland camp. Interns can live on or off-site.

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