Having already dabbled in urban foraging, city dwellers are continuing to escape the confines of their packed and stacked abodes to learn the skills that country folk have mastered for centuries. Attendees of Trackers’ Nine-Month Wilderness Survival and Primitive Skills spend their weekends immersed in hide tanning, basket weaving, and flint knapping. Meanwhile, at The Midwest Native Skills Institute, young people learn the “primitive approach” to obtaining the basics of survival: water, food, fire and shelter. Far from subsisting on nuts and berries, attendees are typically fed with gusto, particularly after completing the unit on Ojibwa bird traps. And, in the South, North Carolina’s Earth School is staffed with survivalists who teach stone tools, fiber technology and animal tracking. Venison, anyone?
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