New and Upcoming
January 29, 2012
Earth Skills Friends,
Wishing you a very good new year!
Enrollments are starting to come in, so reserve space to make sure you get in.
Class Status:
Feb. 11 Basic Tracking, 5 spaces available.
Feb. 12, Moccasins, closed, contact us to be on a wait list..
Mar. 3 Grandfather Awareness, open.
Mar. 4 Intuitive Tracking, open
Mar. 17 Stone toolkit, open.
All other classes currently have openings.
We have worked hard to design workshops this year that will get you connected to nature and advance your skills. Please check out the Earth Philosophy workshops which are underpinnings to everything else we do!
For you trackers, we've added a new Intutitive Tracking workshop, as well as an exciting Feline Tracking weekend. The five-day Tracking Intensive at Windy Springs in June will improve your technique & knowledge exponentially! And look into going back to the roots with Grandfather Awareness.
In the primitive skills area, we're offering a Moccasin class right away in February (indoors), and following that with another wild Edible Plant cooking class. Both classes have limited enrollment. A new class in making a Primitive Stone Tool Kit will be held March 17 on an amazing private retreat parcel in the Santa Monica Mountains. Next fall before the holidays we'll be doing a Native Culture weekend allowing you to make natural & traditional gifts for family & special friends.
Our solo quest will be offered July 28-August 4; inquire early because last year we almost reached the limit of questers we could accommodate.
Currently under development --
Earth Philosophy 3 will be scheduled for fall 2012 but we haven't yet set the date. We're working on a fall Dirt Time workshop also, deciding what will work best among three or four alternatives.
Other notes:
We've redesigned the Earth Skills photo gallery to display 7 subsets of photos: 2011 and 2010 classes; Nature Awareness & Tracking; Plant Uses & Wilderness Skills; Traditional Skills; Special Trainings; and Native American culture series. The sets can run as full-screen slideshows.
Also the Newsletter Archives page was recently upgraded so that you can download, at no cost, the ten past issues of Earth Skills News. There's good information so especially if you haven't gotten to a class recently, go to the archive page, browse through the article listings and see what grabs you.
Book notes:
We have dropped the price for The Tracker's Field Guide to $13.99 + tax and shipping on our website. See the Products page to order copies.
Special trainings:
We have several special trainings already scheduled or in the works for 2012. Contact us soon if you want a training for your group. We can also schedule a PowerPoint presentation for your group about tracking & awareness, at no charge.
Field Biology Consulting:
We have done some more tracking research at Edwards Air Force Base. Please contact us if your field biology consulting firm would like help in survey work that involves tracking.
We hope to see you in a class.
