Resources. Outdoor Schools. Skills Gatherings

Outdoor Schools

• Headwaters Outdoor School - located near Mt. Shasta, CA, & run by Tim Corcoran. Great offerings. We highly recommend this school! http://hwos.com 
• Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School - Tracking, Wilderness Survival, and Awareness (New Jersey)  trackerschool.com
• Wilderness Awareness School - offers many courses including a 9-month Residential Program (Washington State) wildernessawareness.org
• Weaving Earth http://www.weavingearth.com - 9-month immersion offered in Central California. Community, earth skills, permaculture, and more. 

Annual Gatherings 
If you are really inspired about survival/ancestral skills, these week-long gatherings include two meals/day on incredible land and teaching for a whole week at a fair price. This is a great way to meet people and get skilled. (There are numerous similar gatherings, search the web for more).

• Winter Count - In February people gather for a week in the Arizona desert to learn primitive skills. Good offerings for kids too. http://backtracks.net/wintercount.html
• Rabbitstick Rendezvous - Idaho counterpart to Winter Count, in September. http://backtracks.net/Rabbitstick.html
• Buckeye Gathering - Our local California cousin of Winter Count and Rabbitstick. It's first meeting was in May 2010 and has proven to be a huge success. A week of primitive skills, crafting, hands-on learning, two meals a day, music, and evening presentations. Great community. Opportunities to network. http://buckeyegathering.net
• Acorn Gathering - on the Gaviota Coast near Santa Barbara. Very family friendly. Smaller than the others (150 people versus up to 600 people). Two meals/day, classes for a week, great community, incredible land. http://acorngathering.com
• Saskatoon Circle - in Washington State. Beautiful land, great teachers, highly recommended. http://www.saskatooncircle.com/Welcome.html

Books
Contact us for a selected reading list, or recommended field guides.