This two-day immersion into wilderness skills will be filled with learning the skills, knowledge base, and awareness of the living landscape and how we can receive what we need from our interactions with it. We will spend time in different environments foraging plant foods, learning about shelter, making fire primitively, learning tracking and other awareness skills, catching fish, and working as a team to gather wood, cook food on the fire, and meet our needs. There will be plenty of wholesome food provided (some wild, most organic), and we will base our learning out of a campsite in the Kickapoo Valley Reserve. Ability to cover challenging ground and some physical fitness will be necessary for this outdoors overnight workshop.
Date: Saturday, May 17 - Sunday, 18
Time: 9:00 AM Saturday to 4:30 PM Sunday
Meals provided: Lunch and dinner on Saturday, breakfast and lunch on Sunday
Ages: Adults only
Location: Kickapoo Valley Reserve, WI
Instructions: Weather-appropriate clothing for extended time outdoors will be a must. Warm layers, boots, and a sleeping bag are top priorities. An extended gear list will be sent out to registered participants, but feel free to reach out with specific questions or concerns.
Sliding Scale Course Fee Guidelines
Supporter Level Ticket: $630
If you move through the world with financial ease and the means to fulfill many of your wants as well as your needs – you are able to eat out when you want, abundantly meet your needs through employment or can comfortably not work, have access to family wealth, own property, etc. – consider paying at this level, which will help us ensure the long term sustainability of our programs while keeping our offerings accessible to those with access to fewer resources.
Sustainer Level Ticket: $500
If you are able to meet your needs with relative ease while budgeting your educational and entertainment spending – for instance, you are able to take classes and eat out occasionally as long as you are mindful – consider paying at this level, which will help sustain the work of the Folk School at a modest level.
Supported Level Ticket: $365
If you struggle to fund your basic needs and have limited access to resources in your family and community, or if you would not be able to access this offering without a discounted payment option, consider paying at this level. We value your presence and contributions to our community and do not want any economic circumstances to be a barrier to attendance!
Instructor Bio — Nicholas WazeeGale
Nicholas WazeeGale is a lifelong student of the natural world, traditional cultures, and sustainability. His life is intricately tied to the Driftless landscape through foraging plant and fungi foods, hunting and fishing, tanning skins, making traditional handcraft, and obsessively observing and tracking the myriad unfoldings of the living landscape. He is a long time instructor with the Driftless Folks School and other outdoor education institutions, contracts as a professional wildlife tracker with the Wisconsin DNR, and teaches at the Kickapoo Valley Forest School. He is a certified Wilderness Guide through a year long wilderness living immersion course and holds both a Professional and Specialist Certification in track and sign via Tracker Certification North America.
Find him online at…
Instagram: @naturalnuances and/or @wildrootshandcrafts
Facebook: Nicholas WazeeGale
Website: www.wildrootshandcrafts.com