Earth Connection
 School of Wilderness Survival and Ancient Skills

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Welcome to Earth Connection 2008

    Welcome to smart, realistic survival skills - primitive skills with a sense of tradition - and our ancestor's drive for practical self sufficiency.  Earth Connection is a school of primitive skills, wilderness survival and self sufficiency offering regularly scheduled weekend courses and also private weekday courses, for persons 18 and older.  All courses are taught by Tim MacWelch and/or Rick "Hue" Hueston, along with the help of Jamey Hueston and Jennifer MacWelch.  We are located in Northern Virginia, and offer outdoor classes throughout the year.  2008 is our twelfth year of continuous operation.  Our hands-on classes are always kept small in size to ensure that each student gets all of the attention and skills coaching that they deserve. 

    Our specialties are classes in Friction Fire Making and Wild Edible Plants.  And we also teach a variety of other subjects through our courses on Tracks and Sign, Basketry, Primitive Tool Making, Hide Tanning, Wilderness Survival, Organic Gardening and many more!  

Click on Course Descriptions to see details about these courses.

   Fall Wild Edible Plant class                 -                       Tim making fire                -                Summer Wild Edible Plant class
  Photo by Jimmy Culpepper

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!" Tim MacWelch

    Earth Connection's prices are some of the best around, and so are the classes.  We don't believe in big price tags for primitive skills, that's just not natural!  Earth Connection classes are a refreshing experience in reality, in a country full of Hollywood shock value survival and mystical, cultish nonsense. Check out Our Philosophy.

You can now CHECK FOR LAST MINUTE STUDENT CANCELLATIONS in our classes, which would provide you with a last minute space in that class.  Call or email to check for openings.

Things About Earth Connection

Why go to Earth Connection courses? 

Earth Connection's courses provide the following valuable benefits to our students. Earth Connection is a small, streamlined business with the ability to provide priceless, lifesaving skills at prices well below our competition.  We try harder and we pour more into our classes that the "Big Name-Brand Schools".   The Private Classes can be scheduled Monday thru Friday - year round, for the same price as regular classes.   Our curriculum is compartmentalized, to allow you to select and combine the subjects that suit your needs and interests.  Add on a Private Class before or after a regularly scheduled class for a longer training period.   Even if our students have received extensive survival training, our innovative survival techniques will provide them with additional new survival strategies.  These new skills will give our students even more tactics to survive.   All of our courses provide students with a written manual on the skills covered in that course, so that everyone has consistent information to study during the course and to review afterward.   Earth Connection's curriculum is designed to pack many new skills and skill practice time into every class. We don't believe in scamming our students with useless filler.  There's no marching around or busywork on our classes.  If you want to go hiking to fill up a day, you can do that yourself for free.  It won't happen on our clock.  We pack into 2 or 3 days the amount that other guys stretch out over a week.  So you cover the same ( or probably much more ) information at a fraction of their cost!   "The class isn't over when you go home!"  We care about our students and their progress.  The door is always open for further study, for asking questions and to help you join the local and global Primitive Skills community.

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Contact Information

Telephone and voicemail

540-270-2531

Postal address

P.O. Box 32, Somerville, VA 22739

Email

General Information and Webmaster:
earthconnect@earth-connection.com

 

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