Learning the Story of Nature: Skill Building Workshops
“I am trying to teach you that this alphabet of “natural objects” (soils and rivers, birds and beasts) spells out a story. Once you learn how to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it, and I know many pleasant things it will do to you.”
-Aldo Leopold
For people of all ages interested in better understanding the language of nature, I teach adventuresome, exciting, experiential workshops of varying lengths in several basic areas:
Animal Tracking
Plant Identification and Usage
Tree Identification and Usage
Understanding and Interpretation of Bird Language
and Fire-Making.
A half-day introduction overview of all these is a workshop called
“Understanding the Language of Nature.”

Could you get a fire started in 5 minutes, if someone’s life depended upon it? In the rain? In the dark?