Doing Stuff8thMarch
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March
Team & Collaborative Skills by Tony Deis on Mar 08, 2010
The first wilderness school I ever attended was a lot of lecture and fantastic information. I went home spinning over what skills to work on first. I kept spinning because talking at someone is a world of different from doing stuff. The second wilderness school I went to was lots of sound bites about community. Students were told they had to get past their grief over the state of world before they were truly ready to grasp these munificent teachings. Hippie stuff.* I was fooled twice and shame on…
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Rocket Stove or Starship Earth?25thFebruary
25th
February
Permaculture by Tony Deis on Feb 25, 2010
Recently we got a visit from the Wilderness Awareness School's Full-Time Anake Outdoor School to the Trackers Homestead. Together with Trackers Full-Time Wilderness Immersion Program we worked with them on…
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Of Permaculture and Plants, Of Spring29thJanuary
29th
January
Team & Collaborative Skills by Tony Deis on Jan 29, 2010
What we do is powered by the seasons. How we live can be more than a pandering philosophy, it can follow the ebb and flow of life around us. Saying we value the seasonal rounds is different then truly getting our hands dirty in the Earth while planting a garden. It's not the same as harvesting to feed your family with stinging nettles. It…
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Seeing Every Track23rdOctober
Many people start start out looking for animal tracks in sand or mud. Its absolutely critical that a tracker move beyond that simple substrate, finding sign not only in clear ground but through salmonberry, oak leaves, hemlock needles and meadows. Its easy to attune your eye to perceive patterns over moss, leaf debris and other more common…
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October
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The Debris Bag25thSeptember
25th
September
Bushcraft & Survival by Tony Deis on Sep 25, 2009
I spent the past two weeks teaching fire by friction and survival shelters to our fall-term, full time immersion program. They relied on these new skills for the 3-day shelter overnight they just completed (to great success I may add). While they've done other grand things, I'm particularly proud that in their first 3-weeks in the program,…
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Tracking the Dunes16thSeptember
16th
September
1-Weekend a Month Wildlife Tracking Immersion September-June The most in-depth and complete wildlife tracking course available. You don't simply learn to track bears, you learn to follow that animal as an individual. It's own habits, ways of living and personal story.…
