Homeschool Program
This program is designed to guide your child into a deep relationship to nature by engaging in the seasonal rhythms of earth living skills, fun wild awareness activities and land-based crafts.
Mondays, 9am-4pm. Ages 8 and up.
Earth Living Skills are all about building the foundational skills that cultivate a sense of home in the forest. Over the year, we practice different elements of the sacred order of survival: Shelter, Water, Fire, and Food. Learning how to meet these vital needs directly from the landscape helps your child see their self as part of the ecosystem, foster confidence, and pushes their comfort zone in a safe way.
Wild Awareness Activities are focused on awakening their senses to move, see, listen, and feel in the same way that wild animals do. We retrain our senses through core routines and participate in games/activities to strengthen their abilities. These activities cultivate body awareness, develop intuition, and help them align with the consciousness of nature.
Land-Based Crafts covered in this course are focused on building relationships with the natural world. Students are engaged in the whole process of harvesting, processing and crafting. Throughout this process we learn the land stewardship techniques that help the plants we work with thrive. These skills help them cultivate a sense of belonging to landscape, develop lifelong muscle memory and fine motor skills and step into responsibility to be good stewards of the earth.
Each week, we build upon core routines and introduce new skills in a playful and supportive way. There will be time for self-directed learning, where their mentors will help them develop whichever skills they are most excited about. The program is designed so each year, participants can return to deepen their skills through progression-based challenges, and eventually return in mentorship roles.
This educational opportunity aims to bring out your child’s gifts, works towards competency in physical earth skills, and sets the foundation for a lifetime of kinship to the natural world.
Shelter Building
Fur on Tanning
Water and Fire Challenges
Wild fiber cordage and rope making
Pine Bark containers
Knife and tool skills/safety
Basketry
Wild Awareness Skills
Bow drill
Fire making/tending skills and coal carrying
Coal burning spoons or bowls
Primitive Cooking
Wild edibles; ethics, harvesting, processing and cooking
Animal processing
Naturalist Studies
Bone tool making
Hunting skills
Grass mat weaving
Camouflage, tactical awareness, concealment, and stealth skills
Tracking and animal behavior
Bird Language
Land stewardship techniques
Fall Semester 2023 (Sliding Scale: $540-1020)
Sept. 22nd, Sept 28th, Oct 6th, Oct 13th, Oct 20th, Oct 27, Nov 3rd, Nov 10, Nov 17th, Dec 1st, Dec 8th, Dec 15th. 12 days total.
Spring Semester 2023 (Sliding Scale: $675-$1275)
Feb 5th, Feb 12th, Feb 19th, Feb 26th, March 4th, March 11th, March 18th, March 25th, April 1st, April 8th, April 15th, April 22nd, April 29th, May 6th, May 13th. 15 days total.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
