Course
Welcome to the Bush: Northern Bushcraft Field Intensive
Course Overview
To the seasoned Bushcrafter a walk in the woods is like a stroll down the aisles of the local super store. In this two day field-based immersion course you will start seeing the woods like a Bushcrafter. You will eat, sleep, and breathe the wilderness while learning the basics of how to live in the bush comfortably on an indefinite basis by utilizing readily available natural materials and simple tools. You will construct a comfortable bush shelter and learn a wide variety of useful bush skills like primitive fire lighting; the identification and procurement of bush foods; the identification, use, and sustainable harvest of important bush resources for fire building, shelter building, medicine, food, clothing; and the creation of equipment that allows you to safely and effectively live and travel in the bush. Particular emphasis will be placed on skillful use and maintenance of the knife, ax, and saw to create all that one needs to live, travel, and eat from the bush. As your dependence upon modern technology is being replaced with traditional wilderness living skills and indigenous knowledge of the land, you will see the wilderness with new eyes, and you may even see yourself differently.