Learning Primitive/Survival Skills

[Angela]

Here's a listing of primitive skills gatherings all year round:

The Directory of Primitive Skills Gatherings and Knap-Ins of North America

Great link, thanks for putting that up! And putting up something useful as your first post makes a good first impression, sadly we can't say the same for a few people that have wandered in lately.

 

[hassysmacker]

haha. i do what i can.

andy

 

[veggieguy12]

The CrimethInc. convergence is in Pittsburgh this year, and beginning the same day as DirtTime (July 20th), so I may go to Echoes in Time in L.A. in August, after a visit to Pennsylvania.

 

[hassysmacker]

The CrimethInc. convergence is in Pittsburgh this year, and beginning the same day as DirtTime (July 20th), so I may go to Echoes in Time in L.A. in August, after a visit to Pennsylvania.

no no no no!

according to dirttime.com:

Dirttime 09
-No Boundaries-

August 23-28, 2009
San Bernardino National Forest, California

 

[veggieguy12]

Okay, I erred. My post should have read:

The CrimethInc. convergence is in Pittsburgh this year, and beginning the same day as Echoes In Time (July 20th), so I may go to DirtTime in L.A. in August, after a visit to Pennsylvania.

 

[hassysmacker]

yessir.

 

[compass]

Here's a listing of primitive skills gatherings all year round:

The Directory of Primitive Skills Gatherings and Knap-Ins of North America

Thank you!

 

[hassysmacker]

you're very welcome. hopefully i'll run into you or some other people from this forum at one of them!

 

[veggieguy12]

Dunno why I forgot this earlier,
In The Wake
Aric McBay who started/runs this has a 'proper' published book available now, and has co-authored the new What We Leave Behind with Derrick Jensen.

 

[hassysmacker]

Dunno why I forgot this earlier,
In The Wake
Aric McBay who started/runs this has a 'proper' published book available now, and has co-authored the new What We Leave Behind with Derrick Jensen.

in the wake was pretty sweet, but its now defunct. no more updates. and i didnt think the book of it (tools for gridcrash) was that awesome.

have you read what we leave behind? is it worth reading to someone whose read most other DJ stuff?

 

[veggieguy12]

have you read what we leave behind? is it worth reading to someone whose read most other DJ stuff?

Yeah, I'm on that book now, I'm appreciating it.
Especially because he promotes shitting outside, which validates a notion I had years ago and was ostracized for.
What did you think of As the World Burns? A simplified version of the Endgame set?

 

[hassysmacker]

Actually I didnt read it, although ironically enough I have Bunnista tattooed on me! Hehe, but he was a character is a previous S. McMillan comic, Minimum Security.

 

[Arapala]

I completly agree with you guys about the whole, its fucked up how so many people suppost this, but they still live inside the normal system. I mean, i cant say i live out in the woods or anything, but i think its sort of a shame! we are all so conditioned these days! I am sure tons of people want to live like that, but there is some 'invisible border' thats stops them/us.

 

[veggieguy12]

Primitive Skills Links

Primitive Outdoor Skills

Seven Primitive Survival Shelters That Could Save Your Life | Field & Stream

 

[hassysmacker]

anyone going to firefly in july in NC?

 

[veggieguy12]

anyone going to firefly in july in NC?

Please share some info about it; I searched "Firefly July" and "Firefly North Carolina", but no useful results.
Do you have a website link, perhaps?

 

[hassysmacker]

fireflygathering.org

Skills for living with the Earth
July 9-12, 2009
In the mountains near Asheville, NC
Firefly Gathering
fireflygathering@yahoo.com
206-661-6550 or locally at 828-230-0960
Classes may include:

* Archery
* Atl-atl making
* Bamboo utensils
* Basic car repair
* Beekeeping
* Bird calls and identification
* Blacksmithing
* Book making
* Breadmaking
* Brewing (meadmaking)
* Buckskin pouches
* Bullroarers
* Butchering
* Candle making
* Canning
* Composting toilets for your home
* Cordage
* Debris hut making
* Deer leg usage
* Diaper free parenting
* Drop spinning
* Drumming
* Felting
* Finger weaving
* Fire (bow drill, hand drill, flint and steel)
* Fire building
* Flintknapping
* Herb walk
* Hide tanning
* Kudzu basketry
* Moccasin making
* Net bags
* Pelt tanning
* Pigment paints
* Pine needle basketry
* Pottery
* Primitive cooking
* Primitive instruments
* Quillwork
* Rivercane flutes
* Salve making
* Scouting and camoflauge
* Soapmaking
* Solar
* Storytelling
* Tincture making
* Tracking
* Trapping (modern and primitive)
* Veggie oil conversions
* Wild woods walk
* Wilderness awareness
* Wilderness first aid
* Womens' herb walk
* Wood carving

Kids' classes may include:

* Awareness games
* Capture the flag
* Cooperative games
* Cordage
* Debris shelter building
* Pottery
* Scouting and camoflouge
* Spinning
* Tool safety

 

[Play.It.Fast]

Have you read A Language Older Than Words, by Derrick Jensen?
I'm currently reading it, so far it's decent.

I'm considering going to Firefly.

 

[hassysmacker]

yeah endgame is better. and actually i like most of his books more than that. but i read A Language first and it IS awesome, I just think his other stuff is awesomer.

 

[compass]

There's a new gathering, May 2-8 2010, in Norcal, near Santa Rosa, which is pretty close to the bay. http://www.buckeyegathering.net/Home.html