All Classes & Programs
Browse all of our in-person and online classes right here! Our offerings are designed to help you build the skillset you need for a beautiful, practical, and highly empowered life.
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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
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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
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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
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Handy Homeowner Bootcamp™
A 5-day home improvement class that will help you become handy around the house with renovations, repairs, and day-to-day maintenance. Learn how to lay tile, install hardwood flooring, fix plumbing issues, patch drywall, f…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
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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
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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
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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
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Rewilding Retreat for Women
Gather with a soulful group of women for a long weekend of connection, hands-on crafting, and time in nature. Possible activities include basketry, medicine making, wild foods cookery, friction fire, womb wisdom, and more.
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Timber Framing Classes
Learn how to lay out, measure, cut, fit, assemble, and raise a timber-framed structure through demos and hands-on practice. This class is appropriate whether you are an experienced carpenter, backyard builder, or excited b…read more
The Nourishing Kitchen Retreat
In this 4-day holistic cooking class for women, you’ll learn all the elements of deep nourishment: beauty, pleasure, vitality, togetherness, and, of course, delicious food. You’ll gain hands-on experience with a range of n…read more
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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
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Intro to Primitive Skills Class
This Intro to Primitive Skills Class is a beginner-friendly, hands-on weekend designed to build real confidence in earth-based living skills—right in the forest at their rustic Paint Fork primitive campus. Over the course …read more
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Tiny House Academy
Gain the confidence to design and get started building your own ecological tiny house — wherever you are, on wheels or on a foundation. This in-depth lecture series covers the basics and beyond, including natural building …read more
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Online Hide 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 ta…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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Online Power and Hand Tool Training
Check out this beginner-friendly, confidence-building tool safety training designed to help you tackle home projects with skill and ease—without feeling overwhelmed or “behind.” If you’ve ever wanted to cut boards for a sh…read more
10 Spring Wild Foods That You Can Find Almost Anywhere
Do you want to be able to feed yourself from the wild? Discover delicacies growing right outside your door. Your guide through this course is seasoned Wild Abundance instructor Luke Cannon. He’s been foraging wild foods fo…read more
What to Harvest in April: Free April Seasonal Living Activities Guide
April Gardening, Harvesting, and Seasonal Living April is one of the most exciting times of year in the garden. It is the month when the land begins to wake up in earnest, the woods offer their first abundant wild foods, a…read more
Living in a Tiny House
Learn about tiny house living from people actually doing it! With this free online class, you’ll meet several different people who live in tiny houses of various sizes and configurations, visit some of their houses, and he…read more
Seasonal Land-Based Living Handbook
Learn about seasonal, land-based living in the Southern Appalachians from people actually living it! Here’s your guide to seasonal living and connecting with the beautiful, wild world around you. Even if you don’t live in …read more
Tiny House Blueprints
What’s Included in the Tiny House Blueprints? Each copy of these plans includes: You can follow our design exactly or customize the plans with your own architectural touches. Building a replica of our design is the simples…read more
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