Our short courses range from 3 hours to one day, weekend or week long classes on topics such as permaculture, wilderness survival, herbalism, ethnobotany, hunter/gatherer lifestyle, wildlife tracking, bird language, homesteading and more. We're always adding new courses so check for updates either on this page or feel free to subscribe to our Facebook page, which is updated frequently. If you'd like to create a custom course for a small group, fill out the form here and we'll get right back to you. Below you’ll find all of our short courses for 2023. Check back regularly for updates.
Wildlife Tracking and Eval Prep - 3 weekends (3/8-9, 4/19-20, 5/3-4)
Cost: $900 with a $300 deposit
Instructors: Fil Tkaczyk and Kristian Boose
This intensive wildlife tracking course is intended to give students a broad exposure to species found in Washington's three major ecoregions and help them prepare and practice for tracking evaluations. This class can help students of all skill levels improve their tracking and observational skills.
This course includes a total of three weekends in the following areas: western washington lowlands/cascade foothills, central washington shrub-steppe and eastern cascade forests. The course will include full field days as well as additional evening sessions studying materials such as skulls, feathers, animal behavioral ecology, nests and bird pellets. We will be studying a diverse variety of tracks and sign during our field outings, as well as including wildlife observation as part of the study of tracking. The classes will include a variety of printed study materials to assist with deepening knowledge and to serve as study references.
For more information and to register click here
Medicinal Herb Wildcrafting Intensive: Early June 2025
Join us for a weekend medicinal herb wild harvest and camp out! Participants will join Instructor Reisha Beck on a spring wild harvest and medicine making extravaganza in the Cascade Mountains located just outside the town of Twisp WA.
During the weekend participants will go on a wild plant walk identifying and harvesting the plethora of wild plants specific to this bio region. During this walk participants will learn the medicinal and edible properties of these plants, and how to create a reciprocal relationship with these medicines by growing more through propagation and ethical harvesting.
During our forage, participants will learn the art of a plant sit, and. after our harvests we will make medicines to take home and share. The evenings will be enjoyed with shared meals, campfire stores and comradery
Some of the herbs we will be harvesting Arnica cordifolia, Arrow leaf balsam root, Red Root, False Solomons Seal, Yellow Dock, Blue Elder Flower, Mullein and more!
Date: TBA Early June 2025
Instructor: Reisha Beck
Cost: $250
For the full Course Description, General Weekend Schedule and to Register click here
Weaving Our Dreams: Baskets by the River July 2025
$400.00
Join us for a 3-day camp out with basketry in the wilderness! Participants will harvest, process and weave from the wilds and learn multiple basketry styles and techniques. We will also swim in the river, enjoy meals together and remember our humanness though our weavings. More details in the works! Check back soon!
Basket styles participants will learn in this workshop: square twined and twill cattail and bark basket purse, folded bark berry basket and a willow and mixed fiber rib basket. Harvesting, processing and preparing the materials will also be covered, and participants will go home feeling confident moving forward in their basketry journey.
Date: July 11th-13th 2025
Instructor: Reisha Beck
Location: Methow Valley WA (Exact location disclosed after registration)
Cost: $400 this includes materials and tools
For more information and to register click here