Engage With Your Landscape.
Grow Your Wilderness Skills.
Craft A Handmade Life.
Welcome To ROOTS School
We offer wilderness skills and traditional handcraft classes to meet varied levels of skill and intensity, from youth to adult. We offer limited class sizes, hands on learning, and experienced instructors. At Roots you can build solid skills, enjoy time around a fire, make connections to the natural world, all while growing confidence and strength within. We hope to see you soon!
Bringing you the Stone Age since 2007.
Adult Programs
Roots offers classes year round in wilderness skills as well as traditional crafts and skills such as building bows and arrows, basketry, flint knapping(stone tools), fiber arts, and blacksmithing. We also offer naturalist programs such as Wildlife Tracking and Birding. We offer both short and long term programs. Find out more here!
Youth Programs
Roots has a variety of programs for children and teens year round. We have Summer Day Camps, a school year one day a week homeschool program, and weekend classes such as Children’s Bow Making. We also have family events that are all ages such as the Family Survival Weekend and the Roots Rendezvous. Learn more here!
New To Roots
A Handcrafted Life
A series of projects designed to get students working with a variety of tools and materials crafting objects to be used in your day-to-day life. Learn More…
Upcoming Classes
The Gatherer's Program: Foraging, Herbal Medicine, & Basketry
Starts April 11th 2026 One weekend a month.
Willow gathering baskets, black ash pack baskets, fibers & dyes, seasonal foraging, herbalism and more! Spring to fall. Learn More…
WSIP: Wilderness Survival Immersion Program
Starts April 18th 2026 One weekend a month.
Eight months, one weekend a month, ends with a 4-day full survival trip. Build and sleep in shelters, become proficient at bow drill fire in all conditions, learn to purify water, find food through foraging edible plants, hunting, and trapping. Learn More…
ROOTS Blog
Winter Tracking II – Gait Studies – Why and How
What are Gait Studies? Gait refers to the movement pattern the animal is using and the corresponding gait pattern is left for trackers to interpret. In human terms, walk, jog, run, sprint, sit, stand, kneel, etc, etc. Think of an action an animal can take and where...