School Founder Tim MacWelch
Welcome to smart, realistic survival skills...
...primitive skills with a sense of tradition - and our ancestor's drive for practical self sufficiency. Earth Connection consists of two school locations, Virginia and North Carolina. Both branches offer an extensive collection of primitive skills, wilderness survival and self sufficiency classes.
Our mission is to provide you with high quality class content; reasonable and realistic survival strategies; and a safe, enjoyable learning experience. "Don't survive harder... Survive Smarter!"
Earth Connection - Virginia
Our original Virginia branch is headed by the school founder Tim MacWelch along with Hue Hueston. We offer weekend classes and week long classes throughout the year. Our specialties are classes in Friction Fire Making and Wild Edible Plants. We also teach a variety of other subjects through our courses like Tracks and Sign, Basketry, Primitive Tool Making, Hide Tanning, Wilderness Survival, Primitive Cooking and many more! The Virginia classes are held near Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Apprenticeships are available at the Virginia location.
Earth Connection - North Carolina
Head Instructors Wes Massey and Hardee Merritt
Our North Carolina branch is headed by Wes Massey, Hardee Merritt and Todd Magers. They offer weekend classes throughout the year. Their specialties are classes in Friction Fire Making, Kid's classes, Primitive Survival Strategies and Modern Wilderness Survival.
These classes are held near the Raleigh/Durham area. Plans for 2010 include more collaboration between Earth Connection North Carolina and Earth Connection Virginia to offer specialty classes at their location.
Join them at their next class of 2010, Wilderness Survival, held on February 27-28. More spring classes will be added soon.
Important 2010 events!
Earthskills Rendezvous and MAPS!
"The Rendezvous is an event where people gather to learn skills and lifeways of our ancestors. It is a hands on event where some of the best teachers and skills practitioners in the world share their knowledge and experience. " Fuz Sanderson - event mgmt. team
The 25th anniversary of Rivercane Rendezvous will be April 18-25 of 2010. Don't miss it, or it's sister event Falling Leaves in October 2010.
Visit www.primitiveskills.org for all the details, pictures of previous events and directions to their Northern Georgia event site.
MAPS Meet will be held in Maryland on Memorial Day Weekend - May 28-31 of 2010.
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Check out our free videos!
Our five different monkeysee.com videos will give you a great taste of our classes and our teaching style. Check out our series on Wilderness Survival, Emergency Preparedness, Winter Survival Tips, How to go camping and Organic Gardening. Click here for our Shelter Building Clip and others.
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Contact Information
- Telephone: 540-270-2531
- Postal address: PO Box 32 Somerville VA 22739
- Email: econnect@earth-connection.com
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