Eagle Nature Explorers Tuesdays
This class is currently full. Please email Naturelearningcommunity@gmail.com if you would like to join the wait list.
Eagle Nature Explorers gather to experience community in camp life through the seasons. Each day includes storytelling, nature crafts, learning about safety in wild spaces, study of local plants and animals, outdoors skills, games and activities to stretch sensory awareness, and a meal together around the campfire.
Eagles learn skills such as aideless navigation, atl atl, bird language, bow drill, burned wood bowls, campfire cooking, cordage, digging stick, edible and medicinal plants, campfire maintenance, hide work, land stewardship, animal tracking, pottery, shelter building, wood carving, and others.
Our classroom is the forest, fields, ponds and streams - all sessions take place out of doors. Our instructors are versed in a variety of ancient and modern camp skills and experienced working with a broad age group. Class is structured to meet the interests of different ages and personalities.
Details
We're offering a four-week Eagles session. The theme will be survival skills, and each student will build a kit including key items for securing water, fire, shelter and food in a wilderness survival situation. Eagles will begin the day together with the Coyotes group, and then journey out onto the landscape in search of adventure and focussed skills training, returning at the end of the day to share stories with the rest of the group.
Eagles is for students aged 10-14 (9 year olds with prior experience in Coyotes may enroll with this group).
Spring Session
Class will take place on Tuesdays, April 30 - May 21 from 9:30 am - 1:30 pm at Nature and Nurture Farm in Dexter, MI, and sometimes at Sunward Cohousing Community. Students bring their own lunch and snack. The cost of the series is $112, or $104 for each additional sibling.
Eagles learn skills such as aideless navigation, atl atl, bird language, bow drill, burned wood bowls, campfire cooking, cordage, digging stick, edible and medicinal plants, campfire maintenance, hide work, land stewardship, animal tracking, pottery, shelter building, wood carving, and others.
Our classroom is the forest, fields, ponds and streams - all sessions take place out of doors. Our instructors are versed in a variety of ancient and modern camp skills and experienced working with a broad age group. Class is structured to meet the interests of different ages and personalities.
Details
We're offering a four-week Eagles session. The theme will be survival skills, and each student will build a kit including key items for securing water, fire, shelter and food in a wilderness survival situation. Eagles will begin the day together with the Coyotes group, and then journey out onto the landscape in search of adventure and focussed skills training, returning at the end of the day to share stories with the rest of the group.
Eagles is for students aged 10-14 (9 year olds with prior experience in Coyotes may enroll with this group).
Spring Session
Class will take place on Tuesdays, April 30 - May 21 from 9:30 am - 1:30 pm at Nature and Nurture Farm in Dexter, MI, and sometimes at Sunward Cohousing Community. Students bring their own lunch and snack. The cost of the series is $112, or $104 for each additional sibling.
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Instructor
Rowena Conahan has a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, and is a certified Montessori teacher and professional storyteller. She has attended Tom Brown’s Tracker School in New Jersey, Wilderness Awareness School’s Art of Mentoring course, and Kamana Naturalist Training program. Rowena has taught nature connection and ancestral skills classes for youth and adults for many years, including helping groups of volunteers construct several hand-built shelters. Favorite skills include pottery, basketweaving, hide work, wild edibles, plant medicine, and the magical practice of the sit spot!
Rowena Conahan has a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, and is a certified Montessori teacher and professional storyteller. She has attended Tom Brown’s Tracker School in New Jersey, Wilderness Awareness School’s Art of Mentoring course, and Kamana Naturalist Training program. Rowena has taught nature connection and ancestral skills classes for youth and adults for many years, including helping groups of volunteers construct several hand-built shelters. Favorite skills include pottery, basketweaving, hide work, wild edibles, plant medicine, and the magical practice of the sit spot!
Instructor
Laura Barch
Laura likes to play in the woods. She feels strongly that everyone should have the opportunity to explore the outdoors in a way that opens their minds and helps them understand the world, themselves, and others. She has an extensive background in outdoor experiential education and leadership, as a staff member, camp director and trip leader for Agree Outpost Camp, Tamarack Camps Travel Trips, Farm and Wilderness, Eastern Michigan University and Natures Classroom Adventures. From helping students learn to navigate rapids in northern Canada to teaching cooking lessons on a camp stove in Maine, there's always an adventure to be had and always something that makes us sit back on our heals and say "well isn't that neat!" You can usually find her in Ann Arbor as the Manager at Argus Farm Stop - stop by and say hi!
Laura Barch
Laura likes to play in the woods. She feels strongly that everyone should have the opportunity to explore the outdoors in a way that opens their minds and helps them understand the world, themselves, and others. She has an extensive background in outdoor experiential education and leadership, as a staff member, camp director and trip leader for Agree Outpost Camp, Tamarack Camps Travel Trips, Farm and Wilderness, Eastern Michigan University and Natures Classroom Adventures. From helping students learn to navigate rapids in northern Canada to teaching cooking lessons on a camp stove in Maine, there's always an adventure to be had and always something that makes us sit back on our heals and say "well isn't that neat!" You can usually find her in Ann Arbor as the Manager at Argus Farm Stop - stop by and say hi!