Wilderness Survival Courses

Training can make a huge difference in an outcome should you get lost in the wilderness. Our courses provide valuable knowledge and skills you can use as you hike and backpack remote locations. Our professional instructors use lectures, demonstrations, and individual practices to help you develop the skills you need for self-reliance.  Click Here to Explore all courses and all available dates.

Applied Bushcraft Course

You wont find other course that will teach you survival and camping skills using only a pocket knife. Join us for 3 days of learning and adventure. During your stay, you will be actively using skills that enrich your time in the wilderness and contribute to long-term self-reliance. This course is intended to help students to go out into nature and live for extended periods of time, but also supplements your survival skills when rescue is delayed or absent.  A part of this course will use a spoon carving knife (hook knife) but the rest of the course it taught using only a folding pocket knife (camp knife ) and a hatchet.  Course Content

Applied Wilderness Survival Course


This 3-day immersive survival course provides students the skills and confidence needed to survive a 72-hour emergency situation.  Using a wilderness setting, students will come away with applicable knowledge that can be applied to almost any emergency. Students do not just learn how to do a skill but the science behind it so they can apply it in any situation with any materials at hand.  Course Content

Outdoorsman Certification Course

Jason starting a fire by primitive meansHeld only once a year, the 5 day Outdoorsman Certification Course takes students from just learning to using their skills in a long term setting. Students get a 5 day experience of what it could be like to live long-term in the wilderness, while depending on just your skills and basic equipment. In addition to learning Hunting, Fishing and foraging, you will be forced to put all of your previous bushcraft and survival skills to the test while learning new skills each day.  Course Content

Training can make a huge difference in an outcome should you get lost in the wilderness. Our courses provide valuable knowledge and skills you can use as you hike and backpack remote locations. Our professional instructors use lectures, demonstrations, and individual practices to help you develop the skills you need for self-reliance.  Click Here to Explore all courses and all available dates.

Applied Bushcraft Course

You wont find other course that will teach you survival and camping skills using only a pocket knife. Join us for 3 days of learning and adventure. During your stay, you will be actively using skills that enrich your time in the wilderness and contribute to long-term self-reliance. This course is intended to help students to go out into nature and live for extended periods of time, but also supplements your survival skills when rescue is delayed or absent.  A part of this course will use a spoon carving knife (hook knife) but the rest of the course it taught using only a folding pocket knife (camp knife ) and a hatchet.  Course Content

Applied Wilderness Survival Course


This 3-day immersive survival course provides students the skills and confidence needed to survive a 72-hour emergency situation.  Using a wilderness setting, students will come away with applicable knowledge that can be applied to almost any emergency. Students do not just learn how to do a skill but the science behind it so they can apply it in any situation with any materials at hand.  Course Content

Outdoorsman Certification Course

Jason starting a fire by primitive meansHeld only once a year, the 5 day Outdoorsman Certification Course takes students from just learning to using their skills in a long term setting. Students get a 5 day experience of what it could be like to live long-term in the wilderness, while depending on just your skills and basic equipment. In addition to learning Hunting, Fishing and foraging, you will be forced to put all of your previous bushcraft and survival skills to the test while learning new skills each day.  Course Content

Homesteading Workshop

April 13th, 2024  1pm-5pm

This workshop is for anyone just starting homesteading or looking for more information and ideas. We cover many topics that will help you start and grow your homestead.

  • Gardening- Breaking new ground, planting, harvesting, and preserving
  • Animals- Rabbits, Poultry, Cows, Goats, Pigs and more
  • Animal fencing, Nutrition, Care, Breeding, Processing and More
  • We will have local extension agents on site to answer your questions and provide information on programs

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Private Workshops & Courses

January – December 2024

You design your own course We can provide private workshops or full courses for individuals or groups. If you need help with a single skill or want a custom class we can help you achieve your goals.  Contact the school and let us help you enjoy the adventure. Call 864-263-3850