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*Minor changes may occur due to unexpected, last-minute  instructor unavailability, and other unforeseen events*

This is the preliminary schedule.  There are still a few items to be added as planning is finalized.

2025 Schedule

Wednesday

2 PM - 7 PM Arrival

Thursday

Activities and Demonstrations (more coming soon!)

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Complimentary Continental Breakfast

 

9:30 AM -11:30 AM

Primitive Pottery with Emma Markowitz & Laura Wolfer

Felted Soap with Marie Somers

Fletching Arrows Demo with Arthur Haines

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM 

Wild Minds in the World Talk with Mike Douglas

Shelter Demo with Cheeny Plante

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Atlatl Talk & Demo with Bob Berg

One Strike Flint Knapped Tools with Robin Blankenship

3:00 PM  

Barter Faire

Tracking (humans) for Search and Rescue with Colby Leighton

 

5:00 PM Dinner (sandwiches for sale or bring your own)

6:00 PM Archery Competition with Tim Swanson ($20 to enter, winner takes half of the total.  Other prizes will be awarded.)

Evening Primitive Sauna with Tom Turck

Friday

7:00 AM Before Breakfast

Yoga with Tara Ingalls

 

8:00 AM Breakfast

All Day Classes

Animal Processing

Pack Baskets with Jes Steele $75 materials fee

Tumpline, Sash & Band Weaving with Robin Blankenship $15 materials fee

Birch Bark Baskets with Barry Keegan $25 materials fee

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Fish Skin Tanning with Thabani Ndlovu $20 materials fee

Soap Making with Marie Somers $40 materials fee

Natural Dyeing with Maggie Ruth Haaland 

Fishing Hand Reel Carving with Tim Swanson 

Cobwebber Brooms with Hannah Mitchell $15-30 materials fee

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Traditional Tracking with Mike Dube

Coin Rings with Bob Berg

Homeschooling with Kitty Michelotti 

Knots with Cheeny Plante

Kid's Camp:

Map & Compass/Navigation with Carrie McMillen

Flower Pounding with Jillian Megaro

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Friction Fire with Nick Spadaro & Anthony Pono

A Soldier's Rations with Kevin Bouck

Drumming Class with William Ruiz

Kid's Camp:

Paracord Bracelets with Gaianne Dube

Herbal Lip Balm with Krystle Bouck

12:00 PM Lunch (bring your own)

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM After Lunch

Axe Throwing Competition

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Medicinal Teas & Herbal Extracts with Grace Krupkowski $20 materials fee

Creative Mending with Susan Theberge

Campfire Cookery with Kevin Bouck

Flint Tools with Bob Berg variable materials fee

Wool Witchery with Aileen Peterson

Carving Wooden Animals with Emma Markowitz  kids welcome too!

Melon Baskets with Doug Householder

Tracking Woods Walk with Andy Dobos

Kid's Camp:

Shelter Building with Ryan Johns

Teen Intro to Survival with Emma Markowitz

5:00 PM Potluck Dinner

6:30 PM and on: Evening Activities

Native Story Telling with Mike Dube

Women's Circle with Kelly Fariss

Primitive Sauna with Tom Turck

Saturday

7:00 AM Before Breakfast

Yoga with Tara Ingalls

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8:00 AM Breakfast

All Day Classes

Animal Processing, cont.

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Mindfulness Walk with Sarah White

Women's Friction Fire with Robin Blankenship

Forest Feast with Justin Pegnataro

Mushroom Walk with John Michelotti

Primitive Fire: Fire Saw with Barry Keegan $5 materials fee

Kid's Camp:

Kid's Archery Contest with Kevin Bouck

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Cordage (Fishing Handline, cont.) with Tim Swanson

Bear Fat Workshop with Aileen Peterson

Herb Walk with Grace Krupkowski

Kid's Camp:

Needle Felting with Jillian Megaro

Beaded Bracelets with Gaianne Dube

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Botanical Drawing with Jackie Ryan

Knots with Cheeny Plante

Drumming Class with William Ruiz

Combatives with Arthur Haines

Kid's Camp:

Trigger Trap Carving with Tom Shealy

Kid's Forest Walk with Tim Swanson

12:00 PM Lunch (bring your own)

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 

Kid's Trade Blanket with Tim Swanson

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Sinew Thread & Buckskin Pouches with Robin Blankenship

Acorn Processing with Arthur Haines

Broom Making, Full Size with Hannah Mitchell $30-$60 materials fee

Stalking & Camouflage with Colby Smith

Sour Dough with Sarah White

Wild Fibers with Hannah Rhea

Black Powder Rifle with Kevin Bouck

Pine Needle Basketry with Ansley Roberts $15 materials fee

Kid's Camp:

Fire Making & Ash Cakes with Ryan Johns

5:00 PM Dinner

6:15 PM and on: Evening Activities

Raffle

Trade Blanket with Tim Swanson

Drum Circle with William Ruiz

Primitive Sauna with Tom Turck

Men's Triangle with Arthur Haines

Sunday

7:00 AM Before Breakfast

Yoga with Tara Ingalls

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8:00 AM Breakfast​

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Fish Skin Tanning, Cont. with Thabani Ndlovu

Primitive Cooking with Hannah Rhea

Shelter Principles with Colby Smith

Archery Woods Walk with Arthur Haines

Primitive Fire: Fire Plow with Barry Keegan $5 materials fee

 

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Intro to Ham Radio with Nate Glaser

Bone Hooks (Fishing Handline, cont.)  with Tim Swanson

Mead Making with Anthony Pono

Kid's Camp:

Trigger Trap Carving with Tom Shealy

Rock Painting with Leah Dunwoody

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Melon Baskets, Cont. with Doug Householder

Bamboo Atlatl Darts with Bob Berg

Kid's Camp:

Mushroom Walk with John Michelotti

TBA

12:00 PM Closing Circle

12:15 PM Lunch (bring your own)

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Finish Projects

Pack Up

Say Goodbye Till Next Year!

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