Adult Workshops

Join Living Earth School to learn about the powerful skills of survival, building crafts with your hands, and engaging with the landscape in a deeper way more meaningful way. Come learn the skills of survival-shelter, fire, water, and food during one of our adult workshops. These primal skills will deepen your connection to the earth, and yourself unlike anything else. Why is it that all wild animals on this planet know how to survive on a planet that is meant for beings to thrive in? How many of us know what and how to harvest wild edible food in the forest and fields, how to make a fire with out a lighter, how to stay warm with out camping gear, how to harvest clean drinking water. These skills are the blueprint for living. Please join us for one of our exciting offerings, listed below, in the beautiful mountains of Charlottesville and Afton, Va.

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participants work on tanning a hide during a weekend adult workshop

Upcoming Workshops

Adult Recess (In The Woods!)

August 21 - October 21

Nature Mindfulness Retreat

October 12 - October 15

Pack Basket Workshop

October 21 - October 22

Blade Workshop

October 21 - October 22

Leatherworking Workshop

October 21 - October 22

Bow Making Workshop

October 21 - October 22

Past Workshops

Natural Movement Wander #2

May 27 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Natural Movement Wander #1

May 25 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Knifemaking

May 20 - May 21

Pack Baskets

May 20 - May 21

Bow and Arrow Making

May 20 - May 21

Spring Plant Walk with Wild Edibles

May 13 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Wild Mushroom Foraging

May 7 - June 17

Naturalist Wander

April 25 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Primitive Pottery

April 23 - April 30

Nature’s Breath: Meditation Course

April 22 @ 10:00 am - 3:30 pm

Campfire Cooking—RESCHEDULED

April 8 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Introduction to Hide Tanning

March 25 - March 26

Animal Tracking

March 23 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Family Fire by Friction Workshop

March 18 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Basketry 101

March 5 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Introduction to Wilderness Survival

March 4 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Mentors in the Outdoors

February 18 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Wildflower Workshop

April 23, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Leatherworking

March 26, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Flocks and Feathers

March 19, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Poison Ivy Deep Dive

March 12, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm