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!
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...
Welcome To ROOTS
Engage With Your Landscape.
Grow Your Wilderness Skills.
Craft A Handmade Life.
We offer classes to meet varied levels of skill and intensity, from beginner to expert, youth to adult. We offer limited class sizes, hands on learning, and highly experienced instructors. Roots is where you can build solid skills, connections to the world around you, and confidence and strength within. We hope to see you soon!
Bringing you the Stone Age since 2007.
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...