Harmony is an apocalyptic Viking Warrior Princess who likes living off grid in extreme environments, a MadMax cavewoman wild tending big game hunter, a braintanning butcher biker babe, a roadkill connoisseur truck-steader with your great grandma’s passion for food preservation. She has is a founding member of the Buffalo Bridge Project, has run a mobile slaughter, worked as a professional butcher and skinner, and now runs a small folkschool in Washington state.

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CZarina Lobo is a fibre artist and creative maker. She shares her processes in an intentional way with heartful stories. Her happiest place is when she is dyeing old fabrics or weaving wool from sheep she knows by name or picking dye flowers while tending her urban gardens. When she is not homeschooling her three boys and their dog Tundra, she gives workshops in natural dyeing, soft baskets made with green waste and introduced plants. She belongs to the Vancouver fibre shed where is also part of the group of people growing their own fibre and dye plants. She is most energized when she is surrounded by other creatives and kids.

CZarina is continuously learning about the links between a balanced environment, local economies and local First Nations people. Born in India, growing up in Australia and now living on Turtle Island she brings with her a wealth of cultural knowledge.

Len has dedicated his life to preserving ancient knowledge, personal fitness, health and wellness. Len has taught and performed for thousands of people of all ages and abilities over 20 plus years. He founded "Ancient Earth Skills", and is a grant recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, and NYS Arts Council. Len is the creator of the Ancient Earth Skills Academy, online learning center providing skills based courses: "Frame Drums and Doundouns", "Buckskins, Pelts, and Deer Masks", "Camouflage Buckskin with Natural Dyes", "Natural Voice Calling for Deer, Turkey, Coyote, & Raven", and "Couch Potato to Wild Critter". Len lives now in Potsdam NY, where he offers ongoing programming for the community: personal training, yoga, the basics of survival and longterm ancient living skills. Check out his instagram @ancientearthskills, or the youtube channel: Ancient Earth Skills - Len Mackey and learn the love language of the Whitetail Deer.

I am ‘Ha7li’ of the ‘Bear Clan’ from Skookumchuck part of St’at’imc Nation, sometimes referred as the Interior Salish. My given English name is Carl H Sam, I have 3 grown children and 10 grandchildren.
Upon retiring and moving back to the land, I was requested to teach culture and language to the
local students, here at Xa̓xtsa Community school. The parents were saying “I don ̓t know how to do that” and so I expanded and started teaching week-end workshops to adults.
Passing on this knowledge is why we were chosen to live to be an Elder, and sharing these
teachings, gives me mutual pleasure. I have been teaching , skinning, scraping, stretching hides for drums, rattles, fishing in net making, cutting, preserving, and harvesting seasonal medicines and materials. Also a lot of traditional drumming, singing and dancing.

Hiroko Takaya-Pascal is a mother of two teenagers living in Mt. Currie. She is a gardener, a humble beekeeper, and a basket maker. She loves roaming around a forest foraging for foods, herbs and basket materials. Her favourite materials for making baskets are willow, birch, pine needle, cedar. Also, she has a little patch of basket willow growing in her garden to harvest every winter. She has been making baskets for 15 years. She self taught herself to weave baskets most of the times, but she have taken willow basket making workshops down the states, and England. Recently she is learning to use other fibre materials like dandelion stem, rush, nettle, or linden bass. Her obsession is to make baskets right from a scratch. She has a great appreciation for amazing mother nature to providing her plants that she can create very practical art and craft.

Jaime descends from a family of late 19th century Wyoming homesteaders and was brought up learning much about Paleoindian and Plains Indian history and material culture. He recently spent fourteen years working as a ‘Subsistence Resource Specialist’ for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game traveling all around bush Alaska learning everything about Native American prehistorical and contemporary survival skills in the Far North. For several years Jaime also spent time on-and-off staying with hunter-gatherers in Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa, becoming immersed in a diversity of indigenous lifeways. Jaime has been engaging in primitive skills for two decades and, after over a decade of practice, continues to pursue a wild food subsistence lifestyle from his home in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska. His favorite activity is semi-nomadic large game hunting. Jaime has an MA in anthropology and is currently writing three different books about hunter-gatherer studies and rewilding

Find Jaime’s book: Human Rewilding in the 21st Century: Why Anthropologists Fail

Chad is an accomplished hunter of over 30 years and a hunting guide for a couple decades. He has learned his trade hands on in the most remote areas of British Columbia. He lives for the thrill of the chess game, to out wit an old mature white tail buck! An avid outdoorsman, he taught himself through countless hours of reading, experimenting and hands on practice, too hone his mad wilderness skills. Chad has been enthusiastically instructing wilderness survival, tracking and hunting classes for over 25 years. His other passions include eating , shed hunting, trapping and backpacking!

He also offers a hunter mentorship program yearly, free of charge to beginner hunters.
Instructing them in shooting skills, hunting strategies and the processing of their game.

A true survivor of the wilderness, Chad's encounter with a sow grizzly in the fall of 2015 marked his body as well as his soul. The stuff of legend, Chad fought the bear in hand to paw combat, in which he drew on years of martial arts training and an arrow to convince her that he wouldn't go down so easy! His fight with the bear solidified the nick name given to him in high school, "Grizzly Dueck" like a self fulfilling prophecy. A truly wild spirit, Chad survives and thrives!

Sage Armitage is an educator, parent, activist, facilitator, and nature-lover. She is of Swiss and Swan River Cree descent, living in the Colquitz River watershed on stolen land the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples steward and belong to. Her biggest passion in life is to facilitate cultural regeneration: the healing and restoration of a connection-based culture. Together we can refine our ability to build connective experiences with ourselves, with each other and with the natural/divine world. These deeper relationships inspire creative and effective ways to live with each other: they are constructive. This then yields radical and transformative ways to meet our personal and collective needs and change the world while doing so.

This vision of cultural regeneration includes values-based child-raising, decolonization processes, life transition ceremonies, nature-based education, grief-tending rituals, conflict resolution, and more.

To support this vision, Sage loves to connect with values-based organizations and develop unique learning opportunities that meet their needs and goals in these areas. She also offers a wide variety of workshops and classes to the public, both around so-called Victoria, BC as well as on Zoom. For more information email info@sagefacilitation.com.

Bruce was born in South Africa. His ancestors came from the North Sea area. For most of his life, he has lived in and around the Salish Sea. He presently lives in the Pentlatch, Eiksan, Sahtloot and Sasitla (K’omox) territory.

He originally studied robotics before realizing humans have become robots and we need to discover what it means to be human and how to live in harmony with the Earth. He ended up on the frontlines of the “war in the woods” in Sinixt territory, Slocan valley where he was arrested and sent to prison. Fortunately, he had a book with him - the “Tracker” by Tom Brown Jr. And his path of activism turned to education.

In 1999, he co-founded the Oak and Orca Bioregional School and the Firemaker Primitive Skills gathering and studied with Tom Brown Jr. (Tracker school) and Jon Young (Wilderness Awareness School). He started WildSpirit to restore people’s connection to wildness. He became a father in 2004 and 2007 and integrated wilderness skills and awareness into his daily life. Through WildSpirit, he has offered adult workshops and kids homelearning programs for over 20 years.

He has learned from many Indigenous people including Stalking Wolf (as told by Tom Brown Jr.), Wedlidi Speck (Gigame - Eiksan), Elder Bill Jones, Elder Evelyn Voyageur, Carla Voyageur, Sara Child, Keisha Everson, Andy Everson, Daryle Mills and Marilyn James.

Yarrow has an unquenchable love of learning the ways of the wild, including working with natural materials to make useful everyday items. The love of swamp grasses and reeds for soft fiber weaving has definitely been an interest, and she is very excited to weave beautiful, functional hats with you all! If you get a chance to go on a wee walk-about thru the forests, Yarrow has a unique perspective on the wild edibles and the symbiotic relationship of the landscapes.

Jeff is an arborist who hails from coastal British Columbia. He has a wide variety of hobbies that include wilderness living, geology, teaching workshops in hunting, mycology, tree, climbing, spirit, distillation and primitive skills.

He can frequently be found sound asleep in a hunting blind, an advanced technique that he does not recommend for beginners.

Kai Nagata loves gathering food from the land, with a special focus on bowhunting. He is happy to share what he’s learned so far about habitat, animal behaviour, hunting mindset, harvest techniques and game processing. Kai’s ancestors are from Japan, Scotland and England. The Nagatas came to W̱SÁNEĆ territory in 1900 where they adapted and thrived until WWII. Kai and his family now live on Gitxsan lax yip where they practice Ki Aikido and archery, caretake a small farm and support local house groups protecting their rivers, land and food.

Madisen (Medicine) has worked with natural pigments for a decade. What began as a question of "Why paint landscapes with acrylics? There must have been another way humans did this!" that she thought would get answered easily, turned into a journey in apprenticeship, and beginning to see how connected to a place humans can be.

She started collecting mud from wetlands of her youth, and making gritty paint in her mother’s kitchen. Madisen later sought teachers, and while there were few at the time, she took a workshop with Scott Sutton and became a years-long student of Melonie Ancheta of Native Paint Revealed. Her undergraduate thesis focused on how natural pigments can promote a sense of connection to place, and she created a body of artwork using plant and earth pigments of the Squamish Estuary. Recently, Madisen hiked 500 miles in the desert and mailed away earth pigments she found along the way. These are in the process of being made into personal and collaborative artworks.

She is passionate about how stories of the land, and of human experiences on the land, come alive in individual colours. These colours invite us into the beauty of deep time and slow presence.

Ayden Catry-Bauer has been learning at ancestral skills gatherings since he was a baby.

As a child, he was a student of the WOLF Kids outdoor program on Salt Spring Island for seven years. There he studied nature by harvesting food, lighting fires, sitting quietly, making useful things from sticks and rocks, and sleeping in shelters that he built.


Ayden is a graduate of Anake (now the immersion) and the Anake Leadership Program at Wilderness Awareness School, with additional certificates in naturalist studies and tracking.

He has learned and taught at many other outdoor schools and ancestral skills gatherings and is always learning more about nature.

Ayden has been an instructor at Wisdom of the Earth wilderness school for over 10 years, where he teaches survival and ancestral living skills to all ages. He is a full-time instructor for the WOLF Kids program, and enjoys passing on the skills he learned when he was a student there.

Ayden loves observing nature, tracking, playing his fiddle, tending the wild, adventuring and reading books by Tristan Gooley. He and his friend once bushwhacked from the central Walbran

valley to the ocean. It took them three days, and the distance was… nine km. That is not very fast.

Austin is an avid leather worker and wilderness skills educator. He is an eagle scout, and attended both Alderleaf Wilderness College's year long program, as well as Raven's Roots Naturalist School's Naturalist Immersion program. He has a Permaculture Design Certificate, and a Cyber Tracker level 1 certification. He enjoys practicing primitive skills and survival as well as ethnobotany beyond his leather work. He is a hunter both modern, and primitive, as well as a hide tanner. He also enjoys participating in historical reenactments and teaching and designing period correct clothing, armour, and tools.

My name is Skyler Lanz, I am originally from East Glacier Montana of the USA. I have ancestral roots to the Norse and North Western European peoples along with being North American Indigenous, being a grandchild of the great and famous Oglala Lakota Chief American Horse. All my life I lived in the great outdoors and close to Ma (Earth). I try to live as close as I can with the same values of that of a respected warrior back in the not so ancient times. In this class I will teach those who wish to learn how to make a traditional Germanic shield and how to fight with them, and to learn the mindset of never wavering or hesitating in not only in mock combat but that of our modern struggles that we all share now. Every society had warriors that all depended on for safety and hunting.