Bushcraft Basics and Survival Skills

Saturday March 8th, 2025

12:30pm to 5:45pm

Details and driving directions will be sent to registered participants 3-5 days prior to the event.

This course will take place on Private Land in Whatcom County off Highway 542 near Maple Falls, WA.

The skills we will cover in this outdoor workshop include:

• An Introduction to Bushcraft in the Pacific Northwest

• Survival Basics

  • Priorities in a survival situation

  • Fire-making

  • Shelter construction

  • Water sources and sanitation

  • Food resources

• Knot-tying and lashing

• Tools of the trade and practice using them.

  • Knife and ax skills

  • Containers

  • First aid kits

• Ethnobotany meets Bushcraft

  • Plants for survival crafts, medicine, and food, and fire

We will practice all of these skills together in this full-day course.

Northwest Natura is providing day-use materials including:

• Morakniv bushcraft knives

• Ferrocerium rods and strikers

• Fire resources (wood, tinder)

• Saws (limited number)

• Axes (limited number)

• Tarps, paracord, and other shelter supplies (multiples)

• Demo Equipment; examples of several kit items

• Supplies for first aid wildcrafting workshop

• Hot beverages for all

A list of basic things for you to bring to this course will be provided in an email 3-4 days before the event.

You are encouraged to bring your own outdoor tools such as a knife, ax, fire starter, tarp, containers (pots, water bottles), paracord, first aid kit, etc. so you can practice with your kit and/or I can answer any questions about your gear and help you with new-to-you equipment in our spare time.

This class is designed for adults (16+) who are interested in learning new skills that are useful in a variety of ways. Bushcraft is something you can apply in every day life, from the comfort of your home working on foraged wood carving projects, baskets from grasses, pine needles, roots, and bark, or outdoors building shelters, fires, and harvesting food resources.

Bushcraft workshops can cover the essential skills that ancestral to all humans. Come out to learn new things and boost your confidence outdoors through learning awesome self-reliance skills.

Space is limited.

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