Roots Core Skills I introduces students to our school’s main elements, primitive survival skills, tracking, and awareness. In this week long course students will gain hands on experience and time tested information about survival shelters, primitive water filtration and gathering, and friction fire skills such as bow drill and hand drill. As we move into food gathering students will spend time harvesting and processing wild edibles, practice hunting skills with ancient weapons, and learning how to skin, clean, and cook their catch. Tracking and awareness will support all of these skills as we learn the skills necessary to becoming a member of our ecosystem, not an alien struggling to survive. A high intensity, experience rich, week designed to give students the strongest possible foundation for further learning. Students will also gain hands on time with rock tools, primitive water vessels, cordage making, and more. We keep this class small so expect more time doing than watching.
 
 To attend this course please download and send in a Registration Form, either by email, to info@rootsvt.com or PO Box 932 Montpelier, VT 05601. The form is available below.  Please include the non-refundable deposit either in the form of a check or through Google Check-Out available below.
 
Once we receive your registration we will send a Course Confirmation and Information letter that will confirm your space in the course as well as detail the logistics of when the course begins and ends, gear lists, directions, and school policies.