Upcoming Classes
Fall, Winter and Early Spring Class Schedule for 2010-2011
A limited number of work trade slots are available for each class. Please contact the listed contact person for each class. Registration for some of the below classes is available online through PayPal using the "Pay Now" buttons.
Wilderness Survival Skills
Food, Shelter, Water, Fire, Crafts, Tools, etc.
Sept 4 and 5, Labor day weekend. Camping and food provided.
Boone, NC, with Alex Kilgore. Call 336-385-2292
$150
Preserve the Abundance
Each season offers a bounty all its own, we will learn how to make these bounties last so you can enjoy products that you have harvested and processed yourself all year long. You will leave the class with products we have prepared. We will cover old timey pickled veggies, drying apples, processing and storage of: acorns, hickory nuts, and black walnuts, making and canning applesauce, and preparing a variety of autumn olive products.
September 18th, 11am-5pm
Appalachian School of Holistic Healing – Call (828) 350-1221 or email: Info@HerbsHeal.com
$45-$70 sliding scale
Hide Tanning
Turn raw deer hides into soft, supple materials used for garments. Presented in the traditional way using the wet-scrape brain tan method.
November 12-14. Camping and food provided.
Pilot Mtn, NC
Call Natalie Bogwalker at 206-661-6550 to register or email: info@wildabundance.net
$150-$300 sliding scale*
Wild Game Done Well
Here you will learn how to prepare the different cuts of meat on deer and wild critters so that it will be very tender and tremendously tasty. We will eat well.
December 4th, 2-5pm
Appalachian School of Holistic Healing – Call (828) 350-1221 or email: Info@HerbsHeal.com
$30-50 sliding scale
Rawhide and Willow Burden Baskets
We will make traditional native Southwestern style baskets. These are very big and beautiful baskets.
Jan 8th and 9th 10am-3pm each day
Asheville, NC. Call Natalie Bogwalker at 206-661-6550 to register or email info@wildabundance.net
$125-180 sliding scale
Buckskin Sewing
In this class you will learn how to lay out and make patterns for buckskin garments, learn several stitches with buckskin lacing, and start/ finish a project.
Feb. 12, from 1-6pm
In Asheville, NC. Call Natalie Bogwalker at 206-661-6550 to register or email info@wildabundance.net
$30-60 sliding scale*. Buckskin will be available for purchase if you don't have your own.
Living Skills Immersion
Permaculture taught through ancestral skills with Natalie Bogwalker, Zev Friedman, and many more inspired and experienced instructors.
March 11-20
Pilot Mtn, NC. Camping and food provided. Call Nathan Wheeler at 919-605-8169 or email nwwheeler@gmail.com to register.
Prices yet to be determined
Wild Salad Walk
Preparation, and feasting
April 20th, 6-9pm
Appalachian School of Holistic Healing – Call (828) 350-1221 or email:Info@HerbsHeal.com
$25-$50 sliding scale.
Traditional Living Skills
Topics will include a focus on hand tools, technique, safety, maintenance, and choosing of knives, hatchets, axes, and saws; as well as fire building, bow-drill friction fire, knots and tarp shelters, and cordage (rope) making from natural materials.
May 14 and 15. Camping and food provided.
Boone, NC, with Alex Kilgore call 336-385-2292
$150
Applied Wild Permaculture
Are you interested in learning about the basics of what to look for in land to buy, living off grid, and growing, building, harvesting and preserving food. Taught from a permacultural homesteading perspective. Camping and food provided.
May 21-22
Boone, NC call Natalie Bogwalker at 206-661-6550 to register or email info@wildabundance.net
$130-$200 sliding scale*
Atl -Atl Spear Throwers
The predecessor of the bow and arrow, found on all continents, simple, accurate, effective.
June 11th and 12th. Camping and food provided.
Boone, NC, with Alex Kilgore call 336-385-2292
$150
* Wild Abundance believes that these skills should be accessible to as many as possible. We therefore offer a sliding scale providing low and flexible pricing. If you consider yourself very low income please pay the minimum required price. If you feel secure in your financial situation please place yourself in the sliding scale accordingly.