Program Choices

Arts & Crafts: programs for all ages  provide  developmentally appropriate activities including:  drawing, watercolor acrylic and oil clay works, mask making, basketry, wood carving, macrame, beading, fly-tying, found object assembly, jewelry, leatherwork, regalia making, musical instrument making, boat building, photography, and video production.

Nature Studies: in the great outdoors introduces you to ways to interpret the landscape; a guided hike into the ecosystem will explore plant life and it*s various uses. Understanding how other animals share their territory, corridors and food sources with our knowledgeable local ecologists.

Gathering: from nature provides us with all that we need. Go beach combing for edible shellfish, and plants. Find useful art objects from stones, driftwood, natural sponges, feathers, and grasses. Fuel for cooking and lighting and construction can be gathered from the landscape.

Wilderness skills: addresses all that is necessary to keep you warm, dry, fed, sheltered, healthy, safe and not lost, when out in the environment. Learn orienteering by day and night, how to build a fire, how to find and prepare natural edibles, and how to prepare a shelter for weather extremes. Learn how to identify animal signs and read their behavior patterns. Rekindle your senses.

Outdoor-Chef: provides cooking experiences for those who appreciate the gourmet difference that the open fire adds to meals. From making a wood fire and maintaining proper temperatures to baking, broiling smoking or drying this course will share secrets of food preparation using natural products with time tested methods, utensils and recipes.

Water World: explores traditional ways to benefit from the gift that water is. From natures drink to cleaning, food preparation, generating power and heat to insulating and preserving foods, the properties of fresh and salt water are explored. Recreational uses such as swimming, sweat lodges, fishing, & boating are also covered.