Last updated on 11/29/08









 


Check out our free online videos at MonkeySee.com!

Launched on New Year's day 2008, our monkeysee.com video series will give you a taste of our classes and our teaching style.  Check out our series on Wilderness Survival, How to go camping and Organic Gardening.  Click here for our Shelter Building Clip and others.


One stop really has it all.
Tom Elpel's Hollowtop Outdoor School Website

Hollowtop has great classes; reference materials for outdoor skills; schools listed by location; the Insect Food Newsletter;  and a great online calendar of outdoor skills, primitive tech events and classes.  Hollowtop also has the information for The Bulletin of Primitive Technology.  We think this is the best magazine in print.  Check out articles and back issues on Hollowtop.  Tom Elpel's books are also a powerful reason to visit his site.  They're excellent.  Botany in a Day, and several other titles are setting a new and higher standard for outdoor skills books.  Excellent stuff!  You Rock, Mr. Elpel!!!!!

www.hollowtop.com


Check out Prepared Society.com!

Please take a look a this excellent Emergency Preparedness, Survival and Homesteading Forum.  This great website has tons of links, articles and postings. 

www.preparedsociety.com


Online Survival Supply Store!

Take a look at the great store run by our good friends Brad, Julie and Brandon
One purchase can save your life!     
 
We are your source for emergency survival kits and first aid supplies. 

The site is www.emergencysurvivalsource.com.


Check out our Blog site!

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.  "The class isn't over when you go home!"
We are always available for help, advice and questions.  We can all continue to learn from each other.

URL: https://econnectblog.blogspot.com/
 

2 Field Guide Web Sites from Tim

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

 

Mid Atlantic Primitive Skills Group

 

The Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills Group is a free, informal group that meets periodically to have weekend gatherings focusing on the practice of primitive skills.  It's  FREE! Visit their web site at www.mapsgroup.org

 


Braintan Supplies, Finished Hides, & Information

   WWW.braintan.com

"Over 250 pages of articles, tutorials, an ongoing online forum, sources for
tools, books, videos, finished skins, and more traditional tanning info than
you knew existed."

Traditional Tanners -  Phone:  1-888-HideTan  &  email: backcountry@braintan.com


Wild Food Adventures
Edible Plants, Wild Foods and Foraging in North America. Expertise, Workshops, Training, Research, Curriculum Development, Newsletter. 

John Kallas, Director - "We take people into nature and show them how to use wild plants and other foragables for food."

Institute for the Study of Edible Wild Plants and Other Foragables
John Kallas, Ph.D., Director, Educator, Researcher
4125 N Colonial Ave, Portland, OR 97217-3338
Phone: (503) 775-3828  or  e-mail: mail@wildfoodadventures.com

https://www.wildfoodadventures.com


Learn Flint Knapping from the experts!

We highly recommend two different teachers, who are both expert Flint Knappers with unique styles and skills.

Jack Cresson's Primitive Industries Workshops are excellent weekend and one day courses in Flint Knapping in Moorestown, New Jersey .  Jack is a professional archeologist who happens to be a wiz with tough stones and local materials, and he can teach you how to work this stuff, too.  Great food and hospitality included.

Jack Cresson
40 E. 2nd Street
Moorestown, NJ 08057

Email jackcresson@juno.com or call/fax  609-234-3286  9 am to 5 pm EST

Dr. Errett Callahan's Cliffside Workshops are great, flexible courses in Flint Knapping in Lynchburg, Virginia.  Errett is a very widely known and respected anthropologist who shares his skills and home, while teaching Flint Knapping, Bow making, Pottery and many other skills.  Visiting your gracious host's "Room of Bows" is a must.

Dr. Errett Callahan
Piltdown Productions
2 Fredonia Avenue
Lynchburg, VA 24503
804-528-3444  9 am to 5 pm EST
You can also see Errett's web site at
www.errettcallahan.com


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