EarthrootsFieldSchool.org

Casper’s Wilderness Park
Saturday June 12, 12:00 noon to Sunday June 13, 12:00 noon

You will learn how to meet our basic common human needs of shelter, water, fire, and food using only the resources and tools that nature provides.  More importantly, you will learn to meet these needs in a way that regenerates the resources rather than depletes them.  We will practice many of the skills that the indigenous people of California perfected over thousands of years.

Designed for students 18 and over,
Students 14 and older must be accompanied by an adult.

Maximum 10 students

Price $125 per person.  Includes dinner, campsite, and all instruction.

This campout will give participants practical skills for enjoying and understanding our local ecosystems more fully.   There will be a focus on finding water and making fire.  Participants will hike and trek for water, tools and food, then make fire-making tools and cook dinner over the fire. In the morning, we will practice tracking and awareness skills.

We will be practicing the following skills:

-making shelter using abundant natural materials

-finding water by observing plants and animals

-making fire making tools out of common plants, without using knives or other modern tools

-learning how to harvest firewood without modern tools and increase the vitality of the tree at the same time

-making simple but effective hunting tools without knives or other modern tools

-identifying poisonous plants

-identifying edible plants and learning when and how to harvest to create future abundance

-cooking over open coals without pots and pans (…no dirty dishes to clean!)

-observing and understanding the movements of birds and animals