In-Person Classes
Are you ready to become more skilled at home and in your community? Our in-person classes are expertly designed and taught by master instructors to help you learn how to use tools, build beautiful structures, and live a hand-crafted life.
Women’s Basic Carpentry
This class is intended to get ladies up-to-speed on basic building skills, working with wood, and using hand tools as well as power tools. Focus is placed on creating a safe, comfortable, relaxed and fun learning environm…read more
Tiny House Workshop
Gain the skills you need to build your own tiny house from local, natural, or conventional materials. Tour beautifully crafted tiny houses and natural buildings, learn about each stage of building from expert lectures, ex…read more
Wildcrafted Apothecary Training
Identify and wild forage medicinal plants in the Appalachian mountains. Learn to make medicine and cultivate herbs in your garden. Make and take home herbal salves, tinctures, flower essences, decoctions, cough syrups, he…read more
Handy Homeowner Bootcamp
On This Page We welcome you to read through this page for a whole-picture perspective on the Handy Homeowner Bootcamp. If you’re looking for specific information, you can use the following links to skip around: Why Take Ho…read more
Permaculture Design Course
This permaculture class empowers students to become effective ecological designers and planners. You will come out of this class with deep knowledge about creating forest gardens, ecology, permaculture principles, plant s…read more
Four Month In-Person Carpentry School
Get confident building for yourself and others. Our hands-on carpentry program is non-residential and takes place at Wild Abundance, located near Asheville, NC. It’s appropriate for beginning to intermediate level builders…read more
Adult Beginner Woodworking
Get deep satisfaction from learning carpentry In a culture that’s zooming toward virtual reality and digitizing the day-to-day, not everyone grows up learning how to use tools and work with their hands. Our woodworking cla…read more
Women’s Advanced Carpentry
So, you know how to use a drill and a skillsaw and you can build a basic shelf, but you want to get proficient with building bigger things. Do you have buildings in your sights? This class will give you the skills you need…read more
Rewilding Retreat for Women
Gather with other women for a long weekend of connection, learning, and rewilding. Basketry, medicine making, cheese and soap making, wild foods cookery, friction fire, and more In the mountains near Asheville, NC.
Timber Framing Classes
Learn how to lay out, measure, cut, fit, assemble, and raise a 16′ by 20′ timber-framed building through demos and hands-on practice. This class is appropriate whether you are an experienced carpenter, backyard deck builde…read more
The Nourishing Kitchen Retreat:
On This Page We welcome you to read through this page for a whole-picture perspective on the Women’s Nourishing Kitchen Retreat. If you’re looking for specific information, you can use the following links to skip around: W…read more
Brain Tanning
Learn from expert brain-tanners the process of transforming deer hide into soft, supple, beautiful buckskin, suitable for fabulously comfortable clothing and accessories. Leave the class with your very own finished hide t…read more
Primitive Campcraft Class
Campcraft isn’t just about survival—it’s about making camp feel like home by creating what you need with your own hands. In this primitive campcraft class, you’ll carve and lash saplings into stools and utensils, craft too…read more
Intro to Primitive Skills Class
On This Page We welcome you to read through this page for a whole-picture perspective on our Introduction to Primitive Skills Class. If you’re looking for specific information, you can use the following links to skip aroun…read more
Gardening & Permaculture Apprenticeship
Learn to grow vegetables and tend food forests in this one-day-per-week program that spans an entire growing season. Non-residential permaculture apprenticeship.
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