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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.

8 Things You Need To know About Earth Connection

Private Classes are available at our regular class prices

Private Classes are available Mondays thru Fridays throughout 2008.  These classes can be One-on-One tutorials or small group classes.  Check out the bottom of our Course Description page for more details.  Organic Gardening now available, too.

You won't see a deal like this at ANY other school !!
 

   
See our new "Survive In The Outdoors" videos!

Check out our monkeysee.com video series.  Just launched on New Year's day 2008, this new video series will give you a taste of our classes and our teaching style.  Hope you enjoy these "How To" clips.  Click here for our Shelter Building Clip and more.
 

2 Field Guide Web Sites from Earth Connection

Tim has two other web sites which opened early in 2007 that provide information to our students and all other primitive skills enthusiasts.  The content will be growing on each site as the months go by.  Please check back often for new photos, articles and lessons.   "The class isn't over when you go home!" Tim MacWelch

www.fieldguidetofrictionfire.com            www.fieldguidetoprimitiveskills.com 

Check out March's fire articles "Lens Fire Starting"
and "Ash Wood For Friction Fire"

March's articles "How To Properly Process Acorns"
and "Deer And Acorn Stew"

   

New courses for Military, Government, Law Enforcement
and Outdoor Professionals

We are very pleased to be offering new Earth Connection Professional Grade Courses in 2008.  The courses offer much of the smart, realistic survival curriculum that our regular courses offer - with a unique tactical edge all their own. 

Click HERE for these courses and special registration information.
 

Earth Connection North Carolina in 2008


 Our good friends and colleagues Wes Massey, Robert Broom and Hardee Merritt have formed Earth Connection North Carolina.  They will be offering classes in 2008 near the Raleigh/Durham area.  More info will be coming soon.


Click HERE for more on Earth Connection North Carolina. 
                                                                                 

Earth Connection has a Blog

One more reason "The class isn't over when you go home!" Check out our blog designed by Hue.  This is a great place to see what happened in our recent classes and learn more about our school.  It is also a forum for continued communication with our students.  From the blog, you can also go to our Cafepress site for Earth Connection T-shirts, hats and other goodies.

 

Earth Connection cares about the Homeless

Earth connection has collected and will continue to collect Sleeping Bags, Socks and Coats for our local Homeless. We will continue until the end of March.  Please make a choice to help us as we collect for the Homeless.  This is our own private initiative, to make a difference in our local community.  The local shelters that we will be donating the sleeping bags to have requested new 0 degree bags, or used & washed bags.  We also recommend that the bags be synthetic fill, as these will still stay warm even if they get wet (unlike down).  But any bags will help.  Children�s bags are needed, too.  For more info, please email  tim@earth-connection.com

You can help in two ways

  • Drop off a sleeping bag, socks or a coat at an Earth Connection class in January, February or March

  • Mail in a bag, socks or coat to   
    Earth Connection    PO Box 32    Somerville, VA 22739

Tim and Hue were on National Geographic

Tim and Hue received a rare privilege last year.  In late 2006 we were involved in the filming of two programs for National Geographic's new show Wild Chronicles hosted by Boyd Matson.  In the first episode we showed Boyd how to use the Bow Drill, and in the second we shared some shelter building techniques.  Both aired spring 2007, but check your local PBS listings for re-runs on episodes #215 and #222.  Thank you to Boyd, Kevin, Jason, Buddy, Eduardo and all of the other great people that we met. 

 Photo by Eduardo Rubiano  � National Geographic
 

Big events for the national primitive skills community!

Don't Miss 7 Amazing Primitive Skills Events Each Year

Winter Count   February 10-16 in Phoenix, Arizona
 Carribean Rendezvous   February 24- March 1 in beautiful Saint Croix U.S.V.I.
River Cane   April 13-20 in Georgia
Oregon Ridge   May 3-4 in Baltimore, Maryland
MAPS Meet   June 12-15 in Haymarket, Virginia
 Rabbit Stick   September 14-20 in Rexburg, Idaho
Falling Leaves   October 5-12 in Georgia
 

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 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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