$125.00 – Sold Out
Next Class: September 17 & 18, 2022
Join us for an in-depth 2-day workshop with experienced outdoorsman, 'Bushcraft Kelso' where you'll learn the essentials of BUSHCRAFT. This hands-on course will teach you foundational woodland skills like making primitive tools, important wilderness knowledge on plant and animal life as well as other basic self-reliant education.
This course will be broken down in to four areas:
Cordage Making
Wood Carving Techniques
Frog Gigs
Primitive Fishing Implements
Sling Shots
Local Tree and Plant Identification
Knot Tying
Clam Shell Spoons
Pot Hooks
Pack Saw
Pack Frames
$250.00
Amazon best-selling author and certified Master Naturalist, Craig Caudill (Owner/Director of Nature Reliance School)
BEYOND THE BASICS will dig deep into the natural world and how to use it effectively for our needs in survival and bushcraft.
This intermediate course will cover the following topics:
Animal Tracks - Animal tracks are one of the primary keys to understanding what is going on around you in any natural area. We will learn the 10 steps to identifying tracks and look at track casts and other data to help identify common species. We will also walk the property to discover tracks and other sign that indicate various species of wildlife.
Nature Awareness - We will go in depth on utilizing nature for forecasting the weather, finding direction, and setting yourself up for success in survival situations. This will include specific instruction that anchor all organisms in nature and how we can use those anchors to our benefit.
Plant Systematics & ID - How to identify different species of plants for the purpose of utilizing them for food and medicine. Some plants are easily identified, others are more technical. Learn how to utilize a dichotomous key and cell phone apps to properly identify any plant in the world.
Tree Identification - Utilize tree ID to find superior species for survival and bushcraft. Some species are great for food, medicine, and others are better for fire and tools. Know how to identify them by leaves, bark, buds, site location, and overall appearance in any season.
Trapping - trapping for sustenance and survival is crucial. Trapping involves two things, the trap itself and its placement. Understanding one with out the other is a recipe for failure. We will use our newfound tracking knowledge and apply it to trapping.
Each participant will get hands experience utilizing these practical skills. Craig loves sharing these skills with others and will ensure you have a good time and learn a lot that you can take away and use on your own!
$300.00 – Sold Out
RIVER BUSHCRAFT ADVENTURE | June 24-26, 2022
MINIMUM OF 8 PARTICIPANTS 
We will be providing the kayaks, knowledge, history and fun as we make our way down the Oconee River June 24-26th. We will be paddling while talking and demonstrating bushcraft skills. Participants will then camp out at specific spots along the river through the Oconee National Forest.
In the afternoons, while enjoying a fun, informative, and skill centric atmosphere with multiple outdoor instructors.
-Improvise bushcraft and campcraft skills with natural material.
Learn how to start 
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$100.00 – Sold Out
NEXT CLASS - OCT 8 & 9, 2022
"Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise" -Michael Jordan
Spending time in the wilderness can be mentally, spiritually, and physically uplifting when we are properly prepared for our journeys into the outdoors. When unprepared to deal with circumstances wild places can throw at us, it can be at best a miserable experience or worst case scenario a fatal one.
Our ability to stay safe and comfortable in the wilderness relies not only on the gear we carry, but also on our knowledge to use it effectively. What do we do if our matches get wet, it's too cold to use a Bic lighter? Or even worse, we get separated from our gear?
With so many variables, there is no way to predict everything that can go awry in the backcountry, but we can prepare ourselves to deal with emergencies through training.
Handling an emergency situation is a delicate balance of the correct gear, knowledge, mental attitude, skill, and luck. We can't control luck, but we can carry proper gear, and learn and practice the skills to keep us safe when we go out.
Discussions on accident dynamics, accident prevention, and risk management
-SERA Survival Model
-What to carry
-Choice of clothing
-Knots and tarp shelters
-Firecraft
-Water filtration and disinfection
$350.00
"The Lost Art of Primitive Brain Tanning"
JULY 15-17, 2022
CLASS SIZE - MIN 7 / MAX 12
(From Deer to Buckskin in a single day)
In this class, we will learn a Native American Method of brain tanning, that makes it possible to skin a deer in the morning and have soft pliable buckskin by nightfall, using both modern and primitive tools. Although this can be accomplished by a single person, it is best achieved by community effort as it was in primitive times.
Two deer skins will be taken from raw to smoked buckskins. In the process we will also learn making and using rawhide cordage and rawhide glue. It should be a wonderful weekend of teaching and learning from one another.
THE INSTRUCTOR:
Frankie Lackey is a Federally Recognized member of the Chickamauga Nation. His Native American heritage includes the Cherokee and Muskogee Creek Indians.
Frankie began learning primitive survival as a young boy and was working as a wilderness survival instructor by the time he was in his late 20s, running 21 day expeditions in the high desert's of southern Idaho.
Frankie continues to learn and to teach at Native American events, Flint knappIng's, Public Schools and Boy Scouts.
$150.00
Join us for the follow-up to Basic Bushcraft, Intermediate Bushcraft. This is an in-depth 2-day workshop with experienced outdoorsman, 'Bushcraft Kelso'.
Intermediate Bushcraft will be focused on building multi-piece projects using dowels, buck saws, pulleys, articulating fishing lures and mechanical fishing apparatuses. The skills acquired from the Basic Bushcraft class will be necessary as we learn to further build simple machines.
$125.00
JUNE 25 & 26, 2022
CLASS SIZE - MIN 7 / MAX 12
Firecraft is the art of creating and sustaining a fire for the purposes of survival or daily use. This craft is one of the oldest human skills that is quickly disappearing in our society today. Less than a century ago, starting a fire was a daily task.
During this hands on 2-day course you will learn several forms of Firecraft including primitive friction fire techniques, charring natural and man-made materials, solar reflectivity, sourcing local natural materials and so much more!
• Proper Ferro Rod Techniques
• Home Made Tinder Options
• Solar Reflectors
• Flint & Steel
• Charring Natural & Man-Made Materials
• Friction Fire Techniques Like Bow Drill & Hand Drill
• Finding Natural Fire Starting Materials
$125.00
The axe of our past may be essential to our future! Whether you plan to build a traditional log cabin in the woods or just process firewood around camp, you will learn why the ax is the most important woodsman tool.
In Axemanship and Woodcraft, we will use hands-on techniques to safely practice the following core ax skills: Tree felling, limbing, bucking, and splitting wood. We’ll also cover the history, selection, field sharpening and maintenance of axes. The under-appreciated ax serves not only as a woodsman’s lifeline, but a simple tool connecting your hands and heart to doing the stuff of self-reliance.
Retired special education school teacher and life-long woodsman, Todd Walker, is the creator and author of over 600 articles on the popular blog site, Survival Sherpa. Todd Is also in the process of building his second traditional log cabin, by hand!
