Adult Outdoors Skills Day Saturday, 5/22, 1-5 pm
Adult nature lovers are invited to join us around the campfire to practice skills such as fire making, campfire cooking, wood carving, sensory awareness, tracking, wild edibles, nature connection mentoring, community building and more.
Saturday 5/22 will be the last of our spring Adult Skills series, at Nature and Nurture Farm, 7100 Marshall Road, Dexter, MI.
Saturday 5/22 will be the last of our spring Adult Skills series, at Nature and Nurture Farm, 7100 Marshall Road, Dexter, MI.
Shelter Building!
Shelter Building is full,
but we are accepting names for our wait list (see below)!
Saturday, 5/22 from 1-5 pm
There are many reasons you might want shelter in the wild, and many ways to build it. In this class, we'll touch on the basics of shelter building, from temporary and minimal to large and semi-permanent. Here are some of our topics:
- What we shelter from (wind, rain, sun, etc.)
- Types of shelter
- Siting a shelter
- Sourcing materials
- Internal fire
- And more!
Our activities will include:
- Building a debris hut
- Building a mini-cob shelter to take home
- Reworking the entryway and roof of an existing large shelter
We'll meet in person, at the farm, on Saturday, 5/22 from 1-5 pm (it's possible we may run a bit later than this). Suggested donation for this class is $20-45/person, and can be done by PayPal to naturelearningcommunity@gmail.com or by cash or check at class. Pre-registration is required.
Questions? Email naturelearningcommunity@gmail.com or call 734-531-8330.
Masks
Please come with a mask. We'll take them off when we sit around the fire, and at other times when it's possible to maintain distance. We'll wear them when we're up and moving about, or at any time when we might need to pass close to each other. Enrollment will be limited to 10 students, to enable each person to enjoy the class while safely spaced apart.
Please come with a mask. We'll take them off when we sit around the fire, and at other times when it's possible to maintain distance. We'll wear them when we're up and moving about, or at any time when we might need to pass close to each other. Enrollment will be limited to 10 students, to enable each person to enjoy the class while safely spaced apart.
Secret Agenda!
This class is for all adult nature lovers! But there's a secret agenda. The world needs more nature connection mentors. While we explore outdoors skills together, we'll also be building mentoring capacity. Where you deploy your mentoring abilities is up to you. Friends, family, children and strangers - we all need gentle, non-intrusive mentoring in our lives.
Nature Learning Community also needs more skilled helpers for our classes, and this program is a training ground for our current and future staff. Let us know if this might interest you!
Nature Learning Community also needs more skilled helpers for our classes, and this program is a training ground for our current and future staff. Let us know if this might interest you!
Instructor
Rowena Conahan is a founder of Nature Learning Community, where she teaches nature connection and outdoors skills and consults with educators seeking to increase outdoors experience for their students. She’s an anthropologist, healer, storyteller and Montessori teacher, with a background as a homeschool parent and assistant in a Waldorf-based forest kindergarten. She attended Tom Brown’s Tracker School in New Jersey and Wilderness Awareness School’s Art of Mentoring and is a graduate of the Kamana Naturalist Training program. She volunteers for the global 8 Shields movement. Rowena is also a founding member of Sunward Cohousing Community, where she’s lived and learned for more than 20 years.