Upcoming Classes
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.
Living Skills Immersion
March 18-27
Permaculture taught through ancestral skills.
We will explore a wealth of subjects, including Permaculture design in the Wild, Homesteading skills, Primitive skills, Wildfoods foraging and cookery, Functional Communication, Fire building and tending, Compassionate and optional farm animal slaughter and wasteless butchering, Firewood selection and splitting, Cooking on fire, and much, much more.
Lead instructors are Natalie Bogwalker www.fireflygathering.org, Zev Friedman www.livingsystemsdesign.net, guest instructors include Juliet Blankespoor www.chestnutherbs.com, Chuck Marsh www.usefulplants.org, David Brown, and other inspired and experienced instructors.
At Earthaven Ecovillage outside of Asheville, NC. Register below, or email meghan.gemma@gmail.com to find out more information, or to register by mail.
Registration includes instruction, materials, camping and amazing food.
The vast majority of the food will be organic, most will be local and a lot will be wild. Most meals will include the option of compassionately killed meat.
$800-$1,000 sliding scale
or,
$300 non-refundable deposit; pay the remainder at class
Work trade for the class is officially full. We may be open to some partial work trade proposals from especially skilled applicants. If you are interested in work trade, or have any registration questions please contact Meghan at meghan.gemma@gmail.com.
If you have access to high quality food, some opportunities for food trade exist. If you are interested in trading toward the cost of your registration, please contact Anne Knoflecheck at anneknoflicek@yahoo.com.
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 14th and 15th. 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 828-775-7052 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.
A limited number of work trade positions exist for the sliding scale classes. If you are interested in these please contact the instructor at least 2 weeks before the class.