Our 2025 Instructors
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Tim Swanson
Fishing Hand Lines (carving, cordage, bone hook)
Kid's Woods Walk
Trade Blanket
Archery Competition
Tim Swanson is the founder and lead instructor of Owl Eyes Wilderness
Survival. He holds a double Bachelor’s Degree in Adventure Education
Leadership and Adventure Therapy. He is a Level 2 Certified Animal Tracker, Wilderness First Responder, a Leave No Trace Master Educator, and a published author. Tim teaches wilderness survival and bushcraft from a connective and realistic approach. Classes with Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival are held in Massachusetts and throughout New England for all ages.
Emma Markowitz
Carving Wooden Animals
Kid's Camp:
Intro to Survival for Teens
Emma Markowitz is an instructor at Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival and the Assistant Director of TimberNook Middlesex County. Emma is a lifelong adventurer and naturalist. Growing up in the prairies outside of Chicago, her boundless energy often led to climbing trees, splashing through mud, and turning the washing machine into a rock tumbler. Embracing her spirited nature, she channeled her love for exploration into a purposeful career, earning a Bachelor's degree in Art and Visual Culture Education from the University of Arizona.
With over 15 years of experience in outdoor and progressive education, Em believes that by empowering people to take healthy risks and explore the natural world, she can help them develop the confidence and skills they need to thrive. Her teaching is infused with curiosity, patience, and a generous dose of humor.
Arthur Haines
Archery Challenge
From Tree to Table: Acorn Processing
Combatives
Men's Triangle
Arthur Haines is a Maine hunting and recreation guide, forager, ancestral skills mentor, author, public speaker, and botanical researcher. He grew up in the western mountains of Maine, a rural area that was home to swift streams known for their trout fishing. He spent most of his childhood in the Sandy River Valley hiking, tracking, and foraging. Arthur now runs the Delta Institute of Natural History in Canton, Maine, where he teaches human ecology, focusing on the values of foraging, wildcrafting medicine, and primitive living skills. He continues to spend a great deal of his free time practicing his skills as a modern hunter-gatherer. In 2017, he authored “A New Path”, a comprehensive work on nature connection and rewilding, detailing how to incorporate ancestral practices into modern living. As a research botanist for the Native Plant Trust, he completed an inclusive flora of the New England region titled “Flora Novae Angliae” and has authored over twenty publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, including naming species of plants new to science.
Bob Berg
Classes TBA
Bob Berg of Thunderbird Atlatl (the world's foremost atlatl designer and producer!) has been interested in all things primitive for the greater part of his adult life. He is skilled in many of the primitive arts and enjoys passing his knowledge on. Bob enjoys a few hobbies both in and outside the atlatl business, among them spear fishing, atlatl hunting, oil painting, and inventing mechanical devices designed to save the world.
Grace Krupkowski
Medicinal Teas & Herbal Extracts
Herb Walk
Trilogy Herbalism is founded by Grace Krupkowski, herbalist and educator. Trilogy Herbalism is located in Keene, New Hampshire and serves all of Northern New England and beyond. Trilogy Herbalism seeks to weave the power of personal agency, health justice, and medicinal plants together into cohesion. These three links bring forth an awareness not only of how you can better take care of yourself, but also of the natural world, its forces, and the medicine it provides. Through herbalism, we establish resilience and an awareness of interconnectedness between all aspects of the self. Grace's innate and learned knowledge fosters a connection across many herbal traditions. In 2015, she began an exploration into the world of herbalism and plant connection which has since blossomed into a lifelong passion. Since 2020, Grace has served as an educator teaching courses in person and online while managing an herbal product line. Grace also offers one on one herbal wellness consultations that encompass the whole individual, their ailments, and goals for healing and balancing the body.
Cheeny Plante
Knots
I am from Sanford Maine. I was a SERE (survival, evasion, resistance, escape) Specialist in the Air Force for eight years. I trained thousands of aircrew members how to survive in every environment in the world. I currently work in the trades (painting, general labor) and I am a registered Maine guide. When I'm not working, I'm backpacking, fishing and canoeing.
Jackie Ryan
Morning Yoga
Botanical Illustration
Jackie “Rainbow” Ryan is an artist, wilderness instructor and yoga teacher who is dedicated to using creativity to help cultivate relationships between people, their bodies, and the magical earth they come from. She has been teaching Hatha Yoga for 10 years and also loves facilitating ecstatic dance and contact improvisation. Jackie started teaching wilderness skills 7 years ago and opened Rainbow’s Nature School in 2021. Jackie has a BA in Studio Art from the University of Vermont. Her paintings are an abstract world of color and serve to transform energy and emotion. Jackie’s teaching style embodies a combination of calm presence, silliness, improvisation, and curiosity.
You can find Jackie’s artwork at visionfaerie.com and her nature school at rainbowsnatureschool.com.
Mike Dube
Tracking
Native Story Telling
Come learn the Ancient Art of Tracking with Mike Dube. Mike teaches Traditional Native Skills through his School, "Taconic Challenges". This will be his 6th year at Moose Ridge Gathering, teaching Tracking Classes and telling traditional Native stories around the fire.
You'll learn side-tracking, aging with Wisdom Keepers, 10 step drill, Stalking Circle, patterns, Cutting Sign, and track casting. Your connection to Mother Earth will expand.
Doug Householder
Melon Baskets
"Arkansas Doug" Householder has trained in and taught survival from the tropical jungles of South America and Hawaii to the Sonoran Desert, but calls the Ozark Mountains home. He is a highly skilled outdoorsman who teaches at top survival schools. You may recognize him as founder of Earth Trekker Bushcraft.
Marie Somers
Soap Making
Marie resides in Chester, New Hampshire with her husband and a large amount of farm animals, including sheep, cows, chickens, pigs, and silver fox rabbits. Living in a world of many passions, she is a Naturopathic Doctor who has specialized in homeopathy, herbology, and holistic medicine for 48 years. She will be teaching a class on making your own soap at home!
Sarah White
Sourdough
Mindfulness Walk & Talk
Sarah, founder of Holistic Roots Coaching is a lifelong adventurer, wife, and loving mother of two. She is passionate about empowering others to live authentic, sustainable, and healthy lifestyles. After seeing too many limited, generic programs, she started Holistic Roots Coaching in order to deliver a balanced healing journey supported by multiple pillars of wellness and fine-tuned for each and every client.
Sarah has a Master's Degree in Social Work from Simmons College and Holistic Health Coach certification from Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She has been teaching yoga and meditation for 14 years and has completed her 200hr training. She has completed various meditation and mindfulness training, including Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy at Harvard Teaching Hospital, The Center for Mindfulness and Self Compassion. Sarah has been a guest lecturer several times at MIT's Sloan Business School.
Karissa Knudsen
Animal Processing
Here is a picture of a meal from our last butchering class- goat meatloaf cooked in their beautiful honey comb stomachs! I’ve co-facilitated and cooked for slaughter classes, gatherings, and deluxe backcountry trips. I love cooking on the coals, cooking from scratch, and cooking with what lives closest to us. I’m passionate about using every every part of the animal and making it truly delicious (even for the skeptical), and re-membering or better yet, inventing new ways weaving earth and each other, into our lives.
As a death worker of human and animal alike, I believe in living closely with the lives that we take to make more life- and with that closeness comes health, gratitude, wisdom, inspiration, and sanity. So, my family keeps animals, hunts, gardens, and puts up most all our food. We love tanning and crafting hides and walking our goats :) hoping to share some songs, some prayers, and some ideas about how to craft a culture of earth-belonging once again in our families.
William Ruiz
Drums
William Ruiz, a drummer and multi-instrumental percussionist, is an American Native, Indigenous mixed with Portuguese, Spanish, Taino. His career as a musician started as a freelance interstate street busker across the USA before auditioning and becoming a Music Under New York performer.
Based in New Jersey, William also spends a lot of time performing around the world.
He is a well-respected award winning artist having received the Taino award for musician of the year as well as numerous awards from the United Nations for being an ambassador of music and peace.
Ruiz has appeared for interviews/performances on CNN international news, Hot 97 radio as well as WBAI. He is known for playing Log drums, Tongue drums, the HandPan, and Hand drums while wearing his trademark Ghungroo sneaker bells/Aztec Ayoyotes ankle shakers. He also plays various other percussion instruments.
William has collaborated with many world-renowned musicians. He performs solo, with drum groups, and his 4-piece musical group. He also hosts drum assemblies, workshops, and private drum events for children through grants, nonprofits and as a freelance teacher (K – High school), adults, colleges, and corporate events throughout New York State/the five boroughs of New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
Anthony Pono
Friction Fire
Mead
Anthony grew up in Midcoast Maine, surrounded by both the ocean and the forests. This shaped his deep connection to nature. He’s a farmer, hunter, butcher, cook, father, and so much more. You’ll find him with a smile as he enjoys utilizing the foods and resources around him. His most treasured work is trying to pass down this connection to his son, which has lead him to teaching and passing down that connection to you.
Thomas Shealy
Kid's Camp: Trap Trigger Carving
Coming Soon...
Thabani Ndlovu
Fish Skin Tanning
I have spent 7 years learning and practicing tanning leather. 4 of those years were specifically learning to tan yellow fin tuna hides. I have worked with everything from roadkill to butcher scraps. Every animal and species is a little different and wonderful in there own way. I have a bachelor's degree in Fine Art and am currently wrestling with the arbitrary line between Fine Art and craft. I love creative experimentation and the slow process of making.
Carrie McMillen
Kid's Camp: Map & Compass/Navigation
Carrie believes nature is the best place for kids to practice resilience and experience wonder. She spent 10 years leading family hiking and camping trips throughout New England for the Appalachian Mountain Club and is a graduate of National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). She has had jobs in design, kid's outdoor education and more recently, cartography. She not only loves to pore over maps, but believes that mapping and orienteering can increase environmental awareness and spatial perception for kids. Massachusetts has been Carrie's home with her family for the past 25 years, but you may find her hiking, backpacking and orienteering most anywhere.
Aileen Peterson
Bear Fat for Food & Medicine
Wool Witchery
Aileen Peterson (she/they) is a Queer mother, traditional midwife, naturopathic practitioner and community herbalist, permaculture farmsteader + consultant, bodyworker, rewilder and traditional skills practitioner + educator. Their business is Bear Woman Wisdom: Birth, Healing & Folk Ways and she and her wife operate Two Bears Farmstead & Apothecary together. A military brat born along the Rogue River in the Southern Oregon Siskiyous, growing up and raising a family mostly in Southeast North Carolina, and a recent transplant to Midcoast Maine—Aileen and her family have been building a life and community around ancestral land-based living and parenting, rewilding, traditional skills, regenerative and relational land stewardship, holistic healing, and food + body sovereignty for the last 15 years. She has taught on various homesteading, ancestral skills, and reproductive sovereignty topics in-person and online since 2016, at Earthskills Gatherings around the U.S. since 2017, and is excited to join the Moose Ridge family in 2025. In their free time Aileen can be found learning to tan hides, crafting something, reading, writing short stories and zines, and doing graphic design or photography.
Ryan Johns
Kid's Camp: Shelter Building
Fire/Ash Cakes
Ryan Johns lives in Roxbury VT with his family of 5 and their many pets. He works as a k-8 wilderness, primitive skills, science and math educator in local independent schools. Hunting for animals, raising and processing animals for the family homestead and both growing and foraging for mushrooms with his kids are what he spends most of his free time both doing and thinking about. Ryan moved to Vermont from Colorado and brings with him knowledge of southwest primitive skills and practices and enjoys exploring and working in the northern woods. Ryan has many years of experience teaching children and adults to feel comfortable in their outdoor environment and finding out what drives their unique passions both at gatherings, in nature and in the classroom.
See you at the gathering!
Andy Dobos
Tracking Woods Walk
Andy Dobos mentors people of all ages in Nature skills under the name Forest Wolf Programs. He has almost 20 years of experience teaching Nature based skills such as wildlife tracking, friction fire, spoon carving, bow making and much more. Andy earned an advanced completion certificate for White Pine Programs Wildlife Tracking Apprenticeship and a level 3 certification in Track and Sign from CyberTracker Conservation. He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree and has studies traditional crafts for his whole life. He is also the organizer for the Cattail Gathering, a Nature skills gathering in Litchfield, CT.
Maggie Ruth Haaland
Natural Dyeing
My name is Maggie Ruth Haaland (she/they) and I am a queer mender, natural dyer, herbalist, and foot bath devotee (and I also love hot dogs). I came to all of these practices via the world of plants, and wanting to find more ways of incorporating their healing and magical properties into our everyday lives. As someone who has moved with chronic illness throughout my adult life, I have come to find the value in slowing down and tending within, to being with what’s right here and offering repair. I believe in softness, rest, and vulnerability and cultivating these things in community.
Some of my dear teachers include Bryonie Wise, Steph Zabel, Katrina Rodabaugh, Jade Allicandro Mace, Tony(a) Lemos, and the local plants, ponds and oceans of Massachusetts. And also, from afar and other dimensions, Mary Oliver, Alok, adrienne maree brown, and John O’Donohue.
Nick Spadero
Classes coming soon
Nick Spadaro has been practicing primitive skills for nearly two decades. Lucky to study with some of the best, he is currently focusing on learning to hunt and fish for wild game in New England. He homesteads offgrid in central NH with his partner Wren, and their adopted pitbull Cricket.
Susan Theberge
Creative Mending
Coming Soon
Robin Blankenship
One Strike Stone Tool Making
Women's Friction Fire
Weaving straps and Bands
Deer Sinew Sewing Thread & Buckskin Pouch Making
ROBIN BLANKENSHIP owns and operates Earth Knack and has been working in the outdoor field since 1978 when she began leading horse packing trips into the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness for Adventure Unlimited Ranches, eventually directing their mountaineering program. She began teaching for Larry Olsen’s School of Urban and Wilderness Survival in 1984, the National Outdoor Leadership School and Outward Bound. She holds a B.A. in English Literature, a minor in Spanish from the University of Colorado, Boulder, as well as a B.S. in Education with a Colorado elementary teaching certification. Currently she also “moonlights” as the 4th and 5th grade teacher at the Crestone Charter school, which she helped to establish in 1995. She is the author (and illustrator) of How To Play In The Woods, published in 2016 by Gibbs Smith, Publishers, and co-authored and illustrated Earth Knack Stone Age Skills for the 21st Century, also published by Gibbs Smith in 1996. Robin made a friction fire for Katie Couric on The Today Show, has been featured in publications including Outside Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Denver Post, and appeared on Channel 4 news programs in Denver featuring self-sufficient and sustainable lifestyles. All her Air b-n-b listings on the Earth Knack property are self designed and architected, hand built, homemade, alternative and eco-friendly buildings; methods that she also teaches through her Earth Knack programs.
Hannah Mitchell
Broom Making
Coming from the mountains of southern Appalachia, Hannah has been immersed in the natural world since a young child. An abiding love for the wild is the foundation for her creative process. Hannah has been teaching broom making for 12 years. She lives with her partner and two children in central Vermont.
Jes Steele
Pack Baskets
Jes has a deep passion for the wilderness and for teaching. She has been working in the field of Adventure and Environmental Education for more than 30 years. This leg of her journey is about connecting more deeply with herself, others, and the wilderness.
Credentials:
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B.A. Ecopsychology and Outdoor Education from Prescott College, AZ
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M.Ed. Adventure Education Plymouth State University, NH
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Registered Maine Recreational Guide
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National Registered EMT
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SOLO Wilderness First Aid and Wilderness First Responder Instructor
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Leave No Trace Master Educator
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Mindfulness Instructor
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ServSafe Manager
Justin Pegnataro
Forest Feast: A Wild Edible Cooking Class
Justin is dedicated to helping people live vibrant healthy lives filled with connection and purpose. Justin is a Licensed Professional Counselor, ecotherapist, nature mentor and writer. He offers therapy sessions in nature, at his office or through telehealth. Over the course of his career, Justin has mentored hundreds of adults and teens in discovering who they are, claiming their personal power and in finding a deep sense of belonging within their own communities and the more-than-human world.
Michael Douglass
Two Part Series: Wild Minds in the Modern World
I. Maintaining Your Sacred Fire
II. Integration
Michael Douglas is a Registered Maine Guide. His passion for nature, awareness, tracking, primitive skills, and philosophy has taken him around the globe in search of teachers and opportunities to learn new skills; this passion has also earned him a unique reputation in the scouting community and among professional educators. He is a former student of Paul Rezendes, Tom Brown Jr., Jon Young, and many others. After pursuing survival skills as a U.S Marine, he started his own Survival School in 1989 at the University of Maine. He has been a consultant for Discovery Channel’s “Dual Survivor” and was featured on National Geographics’ “Doomsday Preppers”, where he received the highest “Survivability Score” of the shows first season.
His apprenticeship program is internationally known, offering participants from all over the world immersion in Tracking, Survival, Awareness, Bow Making, Wild Edibles, Medicinal Plants, Hunting, Trapping, and much more. August 2024 marked this school’s 35th year of sharing skills with people globally. Mike credits his patient wife Karen and his children, Ryan, Dakota, and Emily, with their love and support in helping him realize his lifelong dream – teaching outdoor skills to all levels from beginners to masters of the craft.
Krystle Bouck
Kid's Camp: Herbal Lip Balm
Arrival/Registration Desk
Krystle is a leader in the healthcare software industry and is passionate about making a difference in people's health outcomes. So much of modern medicine focuses on treating symptoms rather than addressing the root cause. Through diving into the world of herbalism and whole food, Krystle has restored her health and now has a homestead where she and her family raises and hunts their own meat. She is currently acting scribe for the Ancient Ones of Maine where she enjoys competing with black powder firearms and believes in the importance of bringing people back to our roots, when times were more simple. She also directs the children's ministries at her church and has 20 years of experience teaching children ages 5-12.
Kevin Bouck
Campfire Cookery
A Soldier's Rations
Kid's Archery Competition
Kevin Bouck lives in Litchfield, Maine, with his wife Krystle and twin boys Hunter and Zachary. They enjoy their 1850’s farmhouse and have a small, but ever growing, family farm. They enjoy the simple life and strive to keep things as period correct as possible. Kevin grew up in Michigan, and spent 20 years serving in the United States Marine Corps. After retiring in 2001, he settled in New England where he met his wife, Krystle. They moved to Maine in 2017 and have been involved with the Moose Ridge Gathering since 2020. Kevin enjoys all things Maine and the outdoors, although still can’t wrap his head around ice fishing. Kevin can be found hunting turkeys in the spring, deer in the fall, teaching as an Appleseed instructor, serving in leadership roles in his local church, teaching Hunter safety for the IFW, supervising rifle ranges as a CMP Master Instructor, and restoring vintage firearms, or living an 1700's life style with the Accent Ones of Maine. He is looking forward to having you visit him in his classes.
Gaianne Dube
Kid's Camp: Beaded Jewelry
Gay is the wife of Mike Dube', and she originally comes from Jamica Plain, Massachusetts, one of the many diverse sections of the city of Boston. She is of Puerto Rican, Native and Black American descent, all of which have rich cultural heritages and a deep connection with the earth. You will find she has a quiet spirit, and a very welcoming smile.
Since moving to Livermore, Maine with Mike she has embraced the life of living from her environment and learning from nature. She has taken to gardening, harvesting and canning. She also wants to learn herbal medicines and how to use them. She loves watching the animals move and play on the homestead. There is so much learn from their behaviors and habitats. She is learning to hunt respectfully, and how to process and use every part of her kill.
Her favorite time of the day is in the evening when the sun is setting and the trees are whispering, and everything is beginning to quiet, and the silence descends. The peace that just blankets her home is wonderful. There is nothing like it in the world and she and Mike want to share it with everyone through their school: Taconic Challenges.
Gay feels that her skills are better suited for children, and enjoys sharing Native crafts on a scale and level that will allow everyone to bring something special home. She also loves to crochet and make things with her hands. At the gathering, you will often find her by her tent working on something. Come by and sit and bring your projects. All are welcome.
Jillian Erice
Kid's Camp: Flower Pounding
Needle Felting
Jillian Erice is a holistic and integrative physician associate, certified wound specialist, and a family herbalist. As a member of the Wilderness Medical Society, she is trained in Advanced Wilderness Life Support and offers a wealth of knowledge on health and well-being in both everyday and wilderness settings.
Jillian finds joy in foraging, crafting, and fostering a deep connection to nature. She thrives in the forest, whether gathering wild herbs or creating with her hands, and is dedicated to inspiring her children and others to embrace the beauty and wisdom of the natural world and old ways of being. Her and her husband are currently raising their three children and an ever growing number of animals on an 1800s homestead in Midcoast Maine.
Her most recent endeavor is hosting a podcast called Original Being all about holistic health, homesteading, herbalism, primitive and survival skills and remembering old ways of being to bring into our lives today.
John Michelotti
Mushroom Walk
Kid's Mushroom Walk
John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi which empowers people with fungi through outdoor educational mushroom classes, cultivation courses, mushroom art, and mushroom health extracts. He serves as Medicinal Mushroom Committee Chair and is a Poison Control Consultant for the North American Mycological Association. He compiled the team of mycologists and volunteers as an identification specialist for the NYC Poison Control. John has had the pleasure to engage students from Elementary Schools to Colleges and Universities. He has taught at the New York Botanical Gardens for the past 8 years and regularly presents to Mycological Associations across the country. John has taught the Wild Mushroom Food Safety Certification Course to certify foragers to sell wild mushrooms to restaurants and supermarkets in 13 states. John is a former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association where he started a monthly mushroom speaker series as well as the Gary Lincoff Memorial Scholarship. He helped to organize a 3 day, 300 person foray for the North Easter Mycological Federation as Co-chair (20217) and Foray Chair (2023). He served on the Mushroom Advisory Panel for Certified Naturally Grown to develop ecological standards in mushroom production across North America. He was chosen by the Catskill Center as a "Steward of the Catskills" for his contribution to the environment. His goal is to educate and inspire people to pair with fungi to improve the environment, their health, and communities.
Kitty Michelotti
How Homeschooling Promotes Self-Sufficiency
Kitty raises chickens, rabbits, turkeys, and pigs on a 2 acre homestead in Derry, NH with her husband Nate and their 3 boys. Since moving to NH 10 years ago (from Colorado by way of Massachusetts) Kitty and her family have striven to raise and harvest as much of their food as they can while homeschooling and living in suburbia. Kitty prides herself on having least four species of animal in her chest freezer at all times. :)
Nathan Glaser
Intro to Ham Radio
Could you communicate with family and friends if cell service went down? Ham radio is a great way to increase self-reliance and be able to speak to people over long distances without cell towers or the internet in an emergency, or just for fun!
In this class General license holder Nate Glaser, call sign KC0MYM, will cover short wave radio, reception, repeater operation, digital modes versus analog modes, ham license differences, antennas, and disaster communications. Nate will bring his base station radio (Icom 9100) and various handhelds. Feel free to bring your own radio and any questions you may have.
Hannah Rhea
Wild Fibers
Primitive Cooking
The “weeds” in my garden as a teenager first showed me the world of wild edibles and medicinals. I followed the trail of those wise & playful plants out of my garden into the realm of ancestral skills. I studied and worked at various primitive skills school such as Hawk Circle, Flying Deer and Maine Primitive Skills School, teaching both adult and youth programs. I’ve traveled nomadically, sometimes with pack animals, gathering skills in other countries as well attending numerous workshops with knowledgeable instructors here in the United States/Turtle Island. My greatest mentors have been my wild kin and the skills themselves. I have a deeply rooted relationship to hide tanning, wild fiber arts, plants and trees, and the alchemical process of crafting with raw materials directly from the earth. My commitment to relearning how to steward the land through the daily participation of these skills, listening through the feelings in my body, and hard work, has given me the most intimate relationship to the earth I never knew was possible.
Colby Smith
Principles of Shelter
Stalking and Camouflage
Living close to the earth, feeling her power and healing abilities has been important to me my whole life. During a 14 day solo survival trip in high school, I realized the vastness of our journey back to the earth. I have studied at various primitive skills schools such as Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School and Bear Traks, and later taught at schools such as Maine Primitive Skills School, Earthworks Programs, and the Ecology School. My strongest skills are in shelter design and construction, working with fire and water, permaculture, and animal/wild food processing. I’ve tested and honed my skills during extensive backpacking, sailing, and earth living adventures all over the world. In 2013 I completed my bachelors of science in adventure therapy at Unity College. Through these experiences and in helping design and implement several permaculture projects, I developed an ability to communicate with the land. I am committed to working in service to the earth by helping navigate a way back to resilience and health.
Ansley Roberts
Coiled Pine Needle Baskets
Ansley Roberts grew up between the mountains of Appalachia and the deserts of the Southwest, where a deep connection to land, story, and song first took root. She is an outdoor educator, herbalist, and founder of Rainwalk Rewild, a Washington-based wilderness school dedicated to weaving ancestral wisdom into a regenerative future. Through teaching wilderness living skills, foraging, and traditional handcrafts, Ansley invites others into deeper relationship with the themselves, community, and nature through handcrafts, songs, stories, and dreams.
