Upcoming Classes
Wildcrafting and Medicine Making Intensive
May 28 - May 31, 2020
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, herbal liqueurs, oxymels and vinegars.
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Firefly Gathering
June 3 - June 7, 2020
Near Asheville, NC A one-of-a-kind, highly dynamic and intimate community-based skill sharing festival, the Firefly Gathering welcomes children and adults interested in Earth-based knowledge and primitive skills to transform for your life. Co-founded by Kaleb Wallace and our own Natalie Bogwalker in 2007, Firefly gathers a bevy of inspiring community members and skilled teachers, highlighting […]
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Women's Basic Carpentry
June 18 - June 21, 2020
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 environment in which students with beginning to intermediate skill levels can thrive. Trans welcome.
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Women’s Rewilding Weekend
June 25 - June 28, 2020
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.
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Women's Basic Carpentry
July 16 - July 19, 2020
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 environment in which students with beginning to intermediate skill levels can thrive. Trans welcome.
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Advanced Women's Carpentry
July 23 - July 26, 2020
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 for designing and constructing small buildings and sheds and will set you on the road toward more complex structures.
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Tiny Homes and Natural Building
August 21 - August 30, 2020
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, experience hands-on learning as we build a tiny house from scratch, and practice natural plaster and paint. This is the most practical Natural Building Course out there.
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Survival Skills Class
October 1 - October 4, 2020
Come immerse yourself in the ancient arts and modern techniques that will grow your confidence and hone your ability to survive and thrive in the wild. The natural world can provide for all your basic needs, but you need knowledge and skills to utilize what’s out there.
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Advanced Women's Carpentry
October 15 - October 18, 2020
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 for designing and constructing small buildings and sheds and will set you on the road toward more complex structures.
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Hide Tanning Class
November 12 - November 15, 2020
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 tanned in the traditional and completely natural way.
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Online Hide Tanning Class
December 31 - December 31, 2020
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 tanned in the traditional and completely natural way.
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Online Self Sufficiency School
December 31 - December 31, 2020
Learn how to do, make, and grow for yourself. Gardening, wild foods, permaculture, simple living, food preservation and more. Flexible, accessible online courses.
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Online Gardening School
December 31 - December 31, 2020
Are you ready to grow some serious food? This six-month online video course will give you the skills and tools you need to be able to grow a garden for yourself, from the ground up.
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Apprenticeship
April 21 - November 20, 2020
Our Apprenticeship Programs equip participants with the skills they need to live with the web of life: natural building & tiny house construction, foraging & wildcrafting; hide tanning & basket-making; permaculture design & organic gardening; herbalism & nature connection; functional communication & community living; storytelling; deep ecology; and much, much more!
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Women's Basic Carpentry
April 2 - April 5, 2020
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 environment in which students with beginning to intermediate skill levels can thrive. Trans welcome.
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Women's Basic Carpentry
April 16 - April 19, 2020
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 environment in which students with beginning to intermediate skill levels can thrive. Trans welcome.
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Earthskills and Permaculture Immersion
April 24 - November 8, 2020
Earn your PDC and change your life. One 3-day weekend-a-month for 8 months. Build community and let the knowledge sink in. Learn permaculture, earthskills, building, wild foods, forest gardening, how to live a life of purpose, and more, near Asheville, NC.
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Permaculture Design Certificate 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 species and variety choices, holistic forestry, and more.
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Advanced Permaculture Practicum
Get hands-on experience with applied permaculture in water systems, earthworks, orchards and food forests. You’ll be guided by seasoned practitioners who can answer more complex questions and show you the nitty gritty of how to approach projects and get them done effectively.
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