EARTH SKILLS DAY WITH LIVE BISON

Earth Skills Day is Sunday, November 18 from 12-4.

Prepare to be awed by Samson the live Bison with Rolling Thunder’s Chipa Wolfe. Learn basic survival skills from experts with Bushcraft USA*. Living from the land was a way of life for native people & early pioneers. Chipa Wolfe shares the connection that the native people have to the land & animals.

We hope you will join us and please pre-register for these extra workshops by November 15th by calling 770-992-2055 x 238 or register online: https://ecommerce.chattnaturecenter.org/itemList.aspx?node_id=15505.… Show more

Earth Skills Club members demonstrate traditional skills including flint knapping, matchless fire starting, cordage making and primitive cooking. Learn how to make music with Nature Instruments from natural objects & Create Lean–tos, Forts & Spider Shelters -the perfect hideaway using branches. Included with General Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, $5 for children 3-12.

PLUS! Meet Primitive Skills Expert Mark Warren author of Two Winters in a Tipi: My Search for the Soul of the Forest signing his book & offering 2 workshops. Advance Registration is required by November 15 (limited spaces.)

Stalking Workshop teaches how to get closer to wild animals to observe, photograph or hunt. Emulate the fluidity of a fox & patience of a heron while learning the trick of invisible movement. $10 CNC Members/ $15 General Public

Looking at the Forest through the Eyes of the Cherokee
Make Cherokee crafts w/ woodland materials then learn about wild plant foods & medicines. $5 CNC Members/ $10 General Public; Advance Registration is required for this workshop by November 15 (limited spaces.)

*BUSHCRAFT is the name given to those skills practiced by Woodsmen, adventurers, survivalists and those with an interest in ancient or primitive ways of life. Meet members of Bushcraft USA, who get together several times a year to practice their skills in a wilderness setting and further the knowledge of ancient techniques. One of our Wilderness skills teachers, Mors Kochansky, is often quoted as saying “The more you know, the less you carry” - adopt a simplistic methodology - rather than geek up on all the latest gear and gadgets.”

BUSHCRAFT will be there to demonstrating the following skills:
•Primitive fire making to include friction fire and the use of flint and steel.
•Making cordage (rope) from natural materials
•Making primitive tools and weapons
•Fashioning useful utensils from wood and other found materials
•Field Cooking.

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