Land-based skills for survival and sustainability
We hold land-based skill workshops on our rural base in Southeastern Vermont. Join us as we learn alongside one another to build infrastructure that allows us to strengthen community, conduct public events and hold performances.
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Radical Wilderness First Responder
With Solo and Ariel Temple October 3rd-12th, 2025 Course full - email us to get on our waitlist for next time! Join us for a Wilderness First Responder course with street medic ethics. This workshop covers Solo's 72-hour Wilderness First Responder curriculum - a comprehensive look at backcountry patient care. We'll be studying on our base in Vermont with housing and indoor learning space at a nearby former college campus. Students will have access to single or double dorm rooms with kitchenettes, an indoor classroom space, and acres of outdoor practice space. We'll cover wilderness medicine skills with a focus on ethics and consent. |
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This workshop covers Solo's 16-hour Wilderness First Aid curriculum, with an added emphasis on consent, emotional first aid and antioppressive care. Held on our base in rural Vermont, the course teaches wilderness protocols for backcountry traumatic injuries and medical emergencies. The landscape and new A-frame provide a wild and beautiful environment for learning these skills.
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A-Frame Shelter Construction
With Mountainsong Expeditions April 23rd, 2023 Together we learned construction of a simple A-Frame shelter with Murphy Robinson of Mountainsong Expeditions. After this comprehensive one-day class, participants had the hands-on skills to build their own A-Frame shelter for $200 or less in materials. Murphy taught us how to select a site, fell and prepare spruce poles, lash together a frame, and lace on a waterproof tarp canopy. We used only simple tools - ax, bowsaw, and drawknife - and emerged with a new teaching space for future courses.
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Ax Skills Course
With Mountainsong Expeditions April 22nd, 2023 Murphy Robinson of Mountainsong Expeditions taught basic ax skills in this day-long course. We learned together how to split firewood with ease, make kindling safely, and clear fallen trees with ergonomic techniques that made our ax swings powerful while keeping our bodies strong. Murphy also covered ax selection, sharpening and care. |
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