Meet Jason, our new program coordinator25thMarch
We've officially hired a new program coordinator and lead instructor for the immersion program. He's none other than Jason Craban. Some of you may know him and thus will be sufficiently impressed by the awesomeness of this choice. For those who don't, keep reading and you'll learn more. Jason has been working as an adjunct instructor with TrackersTEAMS throughout this year's immersion program. He's helped us butcher the buffalo and feed the village, taught us how to cobble 9th century German shoes and brought a whole new level of folk craft (not only primitive skills) to the work we do. I firmly believe its rare to find an instructor who has Jason's diverse and articulate experience in any wilderness skills program. We are very excited to have him on board.
Here are some of Jason's stats (the TrackersNW trading cards will come out soon)...
-Grew up on the same piece of land his family had been on for over 200 years (pre-dating the American revolution)
-On and around that same land they gathered, hunted and farmed. Jason only ate store bought meat about 5 times before he was 18 years old, everything else was what he caught or raised with his family.
-They hunted with both black powder rifles and bows. Plus, his grandpa was a sharp shooter in World War II
-He was driving and working for his first pickup truck by the time he was twelve
-Lest he sound like just a "hard working’ farm hand and all-around redneck" he continued onto art school at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, fostering a synthesis of eloquent artist and country farm boy
-He hopped trains for many years after art school
-During that time he lived in a wool capote, leggings and loincloth in place a of a sleeping bag; training survival and hunter gatherer skills in both in urban and wild environments while living with a minimal to no gear
-After this journey he found his way to the traditional skin boat school and apprenticed for nearly a year with master boat builder, Corey Freedman
-There he met his wife and they had a daughter, Manzanita, who, and we quote him, "is the coolest young individual I have ever known."
-Jason hand roasts and serves Turkish coffee. He plans on having immersion students do this simple "coffee ceremony" consistently (along with wild crafted tea if they don't drink coffee)
-He is an experienced business man who expresses his folk craft experience in Laughingcrowe Leatherworks
Check our Jason's work in his gallery http://www.laughingcrowe.com/gallery.html
Meet Jason at the April 5th taster day Learn more here
