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PALEOTECHNICS
WORKSHOPS
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Hands-on Activities
with Tamara Wilder
2012
Workshops are held at a variety of locations
and organized by the site host, so please use the contact information listed after each class description
to get more logistical information or register.
If you wish to speak directly with the instructor about
workshop content or other topic related questions,
please email Tamara at ts@paleotechnics.com
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FACEBOOK
where class and event updates
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TOPIC OVERVIEW GUIDE
Workshops, Demonstrations
& Hands-On Activities
click on topic/location for details on current programs:
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KIDS PROGRAMS
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BEADMAKING
HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
open to the public
at local events
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ADULT
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LOCATION GUIDE
click on location for class info
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This list is long so you can either scroll through this page to browse all the workshops scheduled or use the
Topic Overview Guide or
Workshop Calendar Guide
to go directly to what you are looking for.
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Workshop, Demo
& Activity Guide
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2012
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APRIL 29 - MAY 5, 2012:
BUCKEYE GATHERING
Forestville, CA
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where class and event updates
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April 22, 2012
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INTRO TO ANCIENT LIVING SKILLS
Stringmaking & Firemaking
with Tamara Wilder
April 22, 2012 (Sunday)
BAY AREA EXPEDITIONS
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
(outing location to be announced)
Join us as we explore hunter gatherer skills used by humans all around the world. Being aware and comfortable with fundamental human skills such as making fire and string provides a deep appreciation for true sustainability.
Students will move a step closer to being able to provide for themselves, while also learning how humans have thrived and lived in harmony with nature for tens of thousands of years.
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Obtaining the knowledge of how to make fire by friction was a critical step in human evolution. It is also an essential part of ancient living and wilderness survival skills.
Create fire by friction with your own hands using supplied hand drill & bow drill firemaking kits.
You will have ample opportunity
to practice making fire.
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The knowledge of how to make string is one of the most basic & important human skills.
Learn how to extract & prepare the inner bark fiber of Dogbane and explore a variety of twisting and splicing methods used for making both string and rope.
$125
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OCTOBER 23, 2011
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SMALL ANIMAL PROCESSING WORKSHOP
with Tamara Wilder
Sebastopol, CA
(Laguna Farms)
Sunday October 23rd, 2011
9am-5pm, Sunday
Many people who eat meat feel that they are out of touch with the sources and processes behind the food that ends up on their plate. Small animals like chickens and rabbits can easily be raised in the back yard as a source for fresh and healthy meat. The knowledge required to efficiently and humanely process an animal into food is an essential tool for self sufficiency. Beyond being a source of food, animals also provide many other materials that we as humans find useful.
For the hands-on portion of this class each participant, or pair of participants if they like, will process their choice of either a rabbit or chicken for food (includes slaughtering, gutting, skinning, cutting up and discussion and/or demo of a variety of cooking styles).
- Meat and their fur or feathers will then be taken home by each participant.
- (This class does NOT include fur tanning, which is a separate weekend workshop).
- Other topics that will be discussed are: broth-making, bone working, making rabbit glue, cooking methods & fur tanning.
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OCTOBER 28, 2012 (?)
(date to be confirmed)
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FRICTION FIREMAKING AT THE WordUP! FAIR
Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in Petaluma, CA
Sunday, October 28, 2012(?)
(date to be confirmed),
11 AM to 6 PM
A free and fun Community Learning Fair celebrating the joy of lifetime learning.
The Word Up! Fair will be a day full of authors, entertainers, local learning resources and “how to” opportunities.
It is a chance for all who participate to Learn and experience something new for and about themselves, their families and the community.
Website: http://wordupfair.org/
Paul Heavenridge info@wordupfair.org 707-981-8086
Kelin Backman kelin@clementineecoevents.com 707-290-6723
Facebook page
Tamara plans on hosting a beadmaking & stringmaking learning lounge, demonstrating hand-drill friction firemaking, and teaching a one hour hands-on friction firemaking class.
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SOLAR LIVING INSTITUTE in Hopland, CA
707-744-2017
Solar Living Institute website
To register for a workshop by mail, print and fill out the registration form and
send it with payment (workshop fee plus $10 registration fee) to:
Solar Living Institute
13771 S. Hwy. 101
P. O. Box 836
Hopland, CA 95449
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APRIL 21, 2012
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INTRO TO PALEO TECHNOLOGY
OVERVIEW DAY WORKSHOP
Saturday,
April 21, 2012
10am - 4pm
Solar Living Institute
in Hopland, CA
more info at Solar Living Institute website
Join us as we explore universal hunter gatherer skills used by humans all around the world. You will learn basic and essential living skills through the following hands-on activities:
- Make fire with handdrill and bowdrill fire kits
- Process dogbane fiber and make string
- Practice with hunting tools, including throwing rabbitsticks & spearthrowers, shooting bow & arrow, and playing hoop & pole game
- Learn basic stone and woodworking techniques through beadmaking, shaping and polishing stone, and grinding pine nuts.
You will also have a chance to see examples of a wide variety of other primitive technologies. Move a step closer to self-sufficiency and to an understanding of how humans have survived for thousands of years with primitive technology.
$80.
SOLAR LIVING INSTITUTE class
(see info above)
click here for photos of fall 2009 workshop
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OCTOBER 27, 2012
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DAY WORKSHOP
(topic to be announced)
Saturday,
October 27, 2012
10am - 4pm
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NOVEMBER 17 & 18, 2012
date & details to be confirmed
(RAIN or SHINE!!!)
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PALEO SKILLS
WEEKEND WORKSHOP
Stringmaking, Firemaking,
Netmaking & More!
with Tamara Wilder
at Pt Reyes Nat'l Seashore
in Pt Reyes, CA
NOVEMBER 17 & 18, 2012
date & details to be confirmed
9am Saturday to 4pm Sunday
Rain or Shine!!!
(overnight accommodations available)
Join us as we explore universal hunter gatherer skills used by humans all around the world and spend some time learning basic and essential living skills through hands-on activities.
• FIREMAKING: Make fire with handdrill and bowdrill fire kits and make your own handdrill firemaking kit
• STRINGMAKING: Process dogbane fiber and make string
• NETMAKING: Learn how to make a netting shuttle and a knotted net
• HUNTING TOOLS: Target practice throwing rabbitsticks & spearthrowers, shooting bow & arrow, and playing hoop & pole game
• BEADMAKING: Learn basic stone and woodworking techniques through shaping and polishing soapstone and grinding nuts for beads.
• WILD FOODS: Experiment with some basic wild food identification and food processing techniques using stone mano & metate and mortar & pestle.
In this longer weekend format we will also have a chance to discuss a wide variety of other primitive technologies as well as some of the uses of local plants. This will be an incredible opportunity to move a step closer to self-sufficiency and to an understanding of how humans have survived for tens of thousands of years with primitive technologies (the first technologies) as their tools.
$225 ($195 for PRNSA members)
$20 materials fee is included in registration fee
Registration/Info
Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA)
www.ptreyes.org
(415) 663.8001
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1st weekend in January, 2013
(date to be confirmed)
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"From Nose to Tail"
PIG PROCESSING WORKSHOP
with Tamara Wilder
1st weekend in January, 2013
(date to be confirmed)
(w/ potluck dinner Saturday night)
Petaluma, CA
Many people who eat meat feel that they are out of touch with the sources and processes behind the food that ends up on their plate. The knowledge required to efficiently and humanely process an animal into food is an essential tool for self sufficiency.
Pigs have long provided a staple of food and fat for homesteading families. They are omnivorous "garbage disposals" that consume garden, orchard and dairy surplus, transforming it into delicious meat & fat. Pork is particularly desirable as a meat because it is very good fresh but is also exceptionally tasty when cured and smoked into bacon and ham. The fat also provides a staple for baking and cooking when rendered into lard.
As a group we will slaughter and process a domestic pig & utilize all of the parts.
Topics: killing, bleeding, skinning, gutting, innard processing (heart, lungs, liver, kidney, intestine, bladder), brain extraction & preservation, tongue extraction, meat cutting, bacon curing, fat rendering, broth-making & sausage making
COST: $150
(includes seminar, potluck style Sat dinner, and portion of animal to take home)
Registration & ?'s: Cole 707-364-4462
1949 Old Adobe Rd Petaluma, CA 94954
Please contact Cole and/or send a 50% deposit to reserve your space in the workshop. Thanks.
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April 29 -May 5, 2012
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BUCKEYE GATHERING
Traditional Arts & Primitive Living Skills
April 29 - May 5, 2012
YaKaAma,
in Forestville, CA
Choose from a wide range of workshops taught by a variety of instructors each day, share food, and enjoy the fire together at night.
Paleotechnics 2012 Workshop Topics are yet to be determined and will be posted when they are decided.
All ages event, includes 5 full days of instruction.
Breakfast and dinner provided,
(with an emphasis on local organic and wild food.)
Week-long kids' camp for children ages 5 and older.
Camping space provided.
see website for native, youth & senior rates
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NCWHS - Northern CA Women's Herbal Symposium
3 separate weekends at Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville, CA
Weekends of and before Memorial Day & Labor Day Weekend
Over 50 classes are offered by a variety of instructors throughout each session, including six four-hour intensives, covering many different aspects of Herbalism and sustainable lifestyles. Topics include: Aromatherapy, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Flower Essences, Herb Walks, Herbal Crafts, Herbal Cultivation & Propagation, Magical Herbs, Herbal Treatments for Specific Disorders, Women's Health, and much more. Session 3 also offers Sustainable Living classes, including: Alternative Vehicle Fuels, Natural Building Techniques, Permaculture, Solar Energy, and much more.
general info and registration at website
womensherbalsymposium.org
Contact info:
PO Box 599 Sebastopol, CA 95473, tel. 707-824-1429
email NCWHS@monitor.net
Attendees must register for the entire weekend.
Tamara's schedule is yet to be determined.
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date to be scheduled in June, 2012
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"PALEO CAMP"
KIDS SUMMER DAY CAMP
with Tamara Wilder
Boonville, CA
(Mendocino County)
date to be scheduled in June, 2012
Monday - Friday (daily)
10am - 4pm
(with optional 9am drop off & 5pm pickup)
ages: 7-12 yrs old
Daily activities which will be repeated each day are:
- Hunting tool target practice with hoop & pole game, rabbitsticks, handspear, atlatl (spearthrower), and bow & arrow
- Games with bone and nut dice, bone buzzers, catch games, etc.....
- For kids that attend more than one day: time to work on whatever they had previously started.
Morning & Afternoon "Craft" themes will be different each day of the week:
- MON:
"Stringmaking & Pine Nut Beadmaking"
- TUES:
"Firemaking, Soapstone Beadmaking & Stringmaking"
- WED:
"Woodworking with Elderberry Containers"
- THURS:
"Ropemaking"
- FRI:
"Rawhide mini-drums & hoops"
(pre-registration required)
Info/registration:
Andrea LaCampagne alacampagne@lawyer.com
cell 707-272-7075 home 707-895-2487
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July 27-29, 2012
2011 Workshops on Burning Oyster Shells & Slaking Lime
photos by Linda MacElwee
2011 Workshop on Olive Processing
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NOT-SO-SIMPLE LIVING FAIR
July 27-29, 2012
Mendocino County Fairgrounds,
in Boonville, CA
The Not-So-Simple Living Fair, a weekend of hands-on workshops and demonstrations celebrating rural living and homesteading skills, will be held at the Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Boonville.
website http://www.notsosimple.info/
The weekend starts on Friday night at dusk with a Camp-out Cabaret in the campground at the Fairgrounds (bring a song, poem or story to share). Workshops and ongoing demonstrations will be offered all day Saturday and Sunday. Saturday evening there will be a Local Food Potluck dinner (please bring food to share and your own plate, cup and utensils to eat with). Music and dancing with Pura Vida will round out and energize the evening.
Displays and demonstrations, the Conversation Café, Tool Show and Tell, and Marketplace will be on-going throughout the weekend. Participants will have the opportunity to share skills and ideas.
Paleotechnics 2012 Workshop Topics are yet to be determined and will be posted when they are decided.
Admission is $20.00/day or $30.00/weekend, plus additional fee for camping. Youth are free. No dogs are allowed on the Fairgrounds.
For more information or to volunteer to help at the Fair, email info@notsosimple.info or call (707) 684-0028.
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PALEOTECHNICS
Steven Edholm & Tamara Wilder
PO Box 876 Boonville, CA 95415
707-391-8683
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