Adult NATURE 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 without a lighter, how to stay warm without camping gear, and 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

Past Workshops

Track and Sign – CyberTracker

September 19 - September 20

Spring Foraging: Food as Medicine

May 9 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Homeschool Virtual Open House

May 14 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sanctuary Volunteer Day: Trail Building

December 13, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 1:30 pm

Goochland Homeschool Open House

April 21 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Goochland Homeschool Open House

December 2, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Bow Making Workshop

April 25 @ 9:00 am - April 26 @ 5:00 pm

Pack Basket Workshop

April 25 @ 9:00 am - April 26 @ 5:00 pm

Leatherworking Workshop

April 25 @ 9:00 am - April 26 @ 5:00 pm

Blade Workshop

April 25 @ 9:00 am - April 26 @ 5:00 pm

Blade Workshop

November 29, 2025 @ 9:00 am - November 30, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Bow Making Workshop

November 29, 2025 @ 9:00 am - November 30, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Pack Basket Workshop

November 29, 2025 @ 9:00 am - November 30, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Leatherworking Workshop

November 29, 2025 @ 9:00 am - November 30, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Fall Nut Foraging, Processing, and Storage

November 15, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 1:00 pm

Cville Homeschool Open House

April 24 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Cville Homeschool Open House

November 12, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Homeschool Open House

April 25, 2025

Bow Making Workshop

April 5, 2025 - April 6, 2025

Blade Workshop

April 5, 2025 - April 6, 2025

Black Adventurers

November 10, 2024

Blade Workshop

November 2, 2024 - November 3, 2024

Bow Making Workshop

November 2, 2024 - November 3, 2024

Pack Basket Workshop

November 2, 2024 - November 3, 2024

Mentoring for Nature Connection

July 23, 2024 - July 25, 2024

Bow Making Workshop

May 25, 2024 - May 26, 2024

Blade Workshop

May 25, 2024 - May 26, 2024

Leatherworking Workshop

May 25, 2024 - May 26, 2024

Pack Basket Workshop

May 25, 2024 - May 26, 2024

Backpacking Retreat

May 17, 2024 - May 19, 2024

Nature Mindfulness Retreat

May 9, 2024 - May 12, 2024

An Evening of Living Earth Songs

May 4, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Pack Basket Workshop

April 27, 2024 - April 28, 2024

Bow Making Workshop

April 27, 2024 - April 28, 2024

Leatherworking Workshop

April 27, 2024 - April 28, 2024

Blade Workshop

April 27, 2024 - April 28, 2024

Campfire Cooking

March 2, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Renewing Your Path: A Weekend to Reflect

January 6, 2024 - January 7, 2024

Renewing Your Path: A Weekend to Reflect

January 18, 2025 - January 19, 2025

Adult Recess (In The Woods!)

October 21, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Strong in Nature: MovNat Conditioning Class

October 19, 2023 - November 9, 2023

Mentoring for Nature Connection

July 26, 2023 - July 28, 2023

Natural Movement Wander #2

May 27, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Natural Movement Wander #1

May 25, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Bow and Arrow Making

May 20, 2023 - May 21, 2023

Knifemaking

May 20, 2023 - May 21, 2023

Pack Baskets

May 20, 2023 - May 21, 2023

Spring Plant Walk with Wild Edibles

May 13, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Nature Photography Workshops

May 10, 2023 - May 13, 2023

Wild Mushroom Foraging

May 7, 2023 - June 17, 2023

Naturalist Wander

April 25, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Primitive Pottery

April 23, 2023 - April 30, 2023

Nature’s Breath: Meditation Course

April 22, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 3:30 pm

Campfire Cooking—RESCHEDULED

April 8, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Introduction to Hide Tanning

March 25, 2023 - March 26, 2023

Animal Tracking

March 23, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Women’s Moon Circle Series – Cancelled

March 22, 2023 - April 20, 2023

Family Fire by Friction Workshop

March 18, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Basketry 101

March 5, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Introduction to Wilderness Survival

March 4, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Mentors in the Outdoors

February 18, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Introduction to Backpacking

April 30, 2022 - May 1, 2022

Wildflower Workshop

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

Teen Intro to Backpacking Weekend

April 9, 2022 @ 9:00 am - April 10, 2022 @ 5:00 pm

Deepening Backpacking Skills

April 2, 2022 - April 3, 2022

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

Wilderness Navigation

March 6, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm