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Making Glass Knapping Blanks in a Microwave Kiln

Melt recycled glass into knapping blanks!

Apr 12, 20213 min

Friction Fire: A Photo Journal

Before we could learn to make any fires at all, we had to prepare our materials. Chelsea demonstrated how to scrape juniper bark to...

Mar 22, 20215 min

Bows and Baskets: More Tools Around a Fire

Day one began as all good days begin, by building a fire outdoors with friends. After a brief struggle with the Ferro rod, we were in...

Feb 8, 20214 min

Pitch Glue: Recipes and Uses

In our last blog, written by Megan Freeman, she highlighted our Adult Survival Immersion class making a big batch of pitch glue. We have...

Jan 12, 20215 min

Stone and Bone: Making Tools Around a Fire

It was already snowing when I arrived at the campsite to join the Survival and Naturalist Immersion Course crew for the second day of...