Roots Rendezvous
A gathering of people. A huge variety of workshops and skills to choose from. Bring family and friends to come have a great time with others who share a passion for the natural world. Leave knowing more about the beautiful world which we inhabit.
September 2nd, 3rd, 4th 2023
Three Days of Workshops
Camping and Food
Camping Folks are welcome to camp on the land and is limited to tents, tarps and hammocks. Please practice Leave No Trace Camping. You are camping at your own risk and responsibility. There is a field and limited forested spots that are well marked and have plenty of space for you to lay out your tent/tarp/bivy. The camping is five to ten minute walk on a mostly flat logging road so pack accordingly. There is access to portable toilets and clean drinkable water in camp. There are no showers, but there is a private space to bring hot water and wash down and a gorgeous river to dip into at your own risk. You are welcome to come the night before to camp, and camp the night after attending for ease of travel. (Please note that upon online registration you will receive an automatic reply that wrongly states that there is no camping, but rest assured there is.)
Food Meals are not included in the cost of the program. Students should bring their own food. The outdoor kitchen and fridge is limited to classes, instructors and volunteers. Folks will be slinging some delicious meals and/or treats during the weekend! Cash only. They will be available Saturday lunch and dinner, Sunday breakfast, lunch and dinner, Monday breakfast and lunch. approximately $15 a plating with generous portions of local and organic fixings.
No Dogs. We love dogs! Please don’t bring yours though as it adds a layer of complexity that we are going to avoid.
Payment and Cost
Pre-registration is required. It is looking like we will fill this year, so register if you want to attend.
We have just opened up two day registration! If you plan to come for two days, please email me to let me know what two days you will be here. Thank you!
If we are not full, we will open up to walk in registrations, to which you are welcome to pay the day you arrive. We accept cash, traveler’s checks, checks, and money orders, and credit cards online ahead of time only. Kids under 12 years old and younger can come for free. Please contact us if you have any questions. Please register and pay ahead of time! If you don’t, please be sure to check in at the registration table. We don’t prorate days. We will have open rolling registration until we reach maximum capacity, so register soon!
Registration and Waiver
Everyone needs to sign a waiver, which can not be done on the website. I will email it to you for you to get back to me before the start of the event. You are also welcome to email me at [email protected] for one. If you have kids and the information is the same, everyone can go onto one.
If you will be bringing kids with you, please email me at [email protected] so that I can send you a youth waiver to fill out and email back to me.
Covid Protocols
We are committed to a virus safe learning environment. It is such that outdoor transmission is very low, which is great! That said, there is no indoor space that is accessible to anyone. Do not go inside the shop, tiny house, trailer, house, or yurt. In being outside, we do not require masks. There will be handwashing stations available that you can make use of.
If you are sick with any symptoms, please do not come, and in kind we will refund you the cost of admission.
The 2022 Schedule is up for you to get a sense of the event.
We are stoked to say that these teachers and topics will be happening! Also, this schedule is bound to change, and additions soon to be made, so check back in!
2022 Schedule
Saturday
Morning Circle 9:20
Morning 10:00-11:30
Wildlife Tracking Brad Salon
Birding; Wide Angle Hearing Amasa Fiske-White
Raccoon Skinning Ryan Hogan
Ninjutsu Ben Goodrich
Honey and Vinegar Preparations: Herbal Oxymels, Shrubs and Electuaries Julia Shaw
Cordage Udaya Sun
Fire Workshop; Bow drill, Hand Drill, Ferro Rods Tim Swanson
Plant Communication: Connecting with our Photosynthesizing Friends Gina Shvartsman
Youth! Fort Building and Camouflage games! Maggie Joseph (age 7 and up)
Early Afternoon 12:30-2:30
Youth! Stories and Games Ross Doree (age 7 and up)
Animal forms and Natural Movement Len Mackey
Camouflage for Hunting and Scouting Brad Salon
Cordage Udaya Sun
How Water Dances with the Earth Lucian Avery
Traps Luke Boushee
Handdrill Nick Neddo
Plant ID and Ecology Dan Farrell
Shoe-making: Leather and Wool Baby Shoes Ruby Pinyuh-Derovan (part 1/8 students/12yrs+/$25 materials fee)
Small Black Ash & mixed Bark Basket Penny Hewitt (Part one/12 students/$20 material fee)
Blacksmithing Campcraft Tools; awls, firepokers, skewers, hooks Jared Kapsiak (6 students/$10 materials fee)
Late Afternoon 3:00-5:00
Bark Rattles John Hunt
Navigation Elliot Cluba
Mead Making Betzy Bancroft
Flint and Steel with Charcloth Jamie Maloof
Making Birch Oil Ryan Hogan
Rabbit Butchering Sabrina Squires
Mending Clothes Betsy Kane (6 students/two blocks)
Basic Flint knapping Brad Salon (10 students)
Blacksmithing Campcraft Tools; awls, firepokers, skewers, hooks Jared Kapsiak (6 students/$10 materials fee)
Winged Hearth Broom Hannah Mitchell (10 Students/$5-$10)
Continued…
Small Black Ash & mixed Bark Basket Penny Hewitt (Part two/12 students/$20 material fee)
Shoe-making: Leather and Wool Baby Shoes Ruby Pinyuh-Derovan (part 2/8 students/12yrs+/$25 materials fee)
Saturday Evening
There will be a fire going, fireside chats, and music to celebrate! APPLES! There will be a Home Brew Circle! Bring out your home-brewed concoctions and celebrate with others.
Sunday
Morning Circle 9:00
Morning 9:30-11:30
Youth Skills (age 7 and up)
Fire by Friction; Bow drill Justin Sutera
Ninjutsu Ben Goodrich
Mushroom Identification Dave Muska (25 students)
Acorn Processing Elliot Cluba
Rope Making Luke Boushee
Rabbit Butchering Sabrina Squires
Blacksmithing Lucian Avery (4 students/$10)
Flint knapping, Make a hide scraper Brad Salon (10 students)
Cobbwebber Broom Hannah Mitchell ($5-$10)
Shoe-making: Leather and Wool Baby Shoes Ruby Pinyuh-Derovan (part 1/8 students/12yrs+/$25 materials fee)
Tanning Rabbit Skins Coleen Butler (8 students/part 1 of 2)
Diagonal Plaited Willow Bark Basket Penny Hewitt (Part one/10 students/$20 material fee)
Early Afternoon 12:30-2:30
Corn, Beans and Squash John Hunt
Herbal Management of Staph Arielle Baraket
Culinary Herbalism Emma Braodhurst
Plant ID and Ecology Dan Farrell
Alpine Cheese Kalyn Campbell (part 1 of 2)
Knife Sharpening Lucian Avery (8 students/$10)
Blacksmithing Campcraft Tools; awls, firepokers, skewers, hooks Jared Kapsiak (6 students/$10 materials fee)
Continued…
Tanning Rabbit Skins Coleen Butler (part 2)
Diagonal Plaited Willow Bark Basket Penny Hewitt (Part two/10 students/$20 material fee)
Shoe-making: Leather and Wool Baby Shoes Ruby Pinyuh-Derovan (part 2/8 students/12yrs+/$25 materials fee)
Late Afternoon 3:00- 5:00
Herb Plant Walk Betzy Bancroft
Coal Burned Spoons Jamie Maloof
Herbal First Aid Julia Shaw
Paint Making Nick Neddo
Traditional Hand Percussion Len Mackey
Honeybees and the Great Dance of Nature Jeffrey Hamelman
Oils + Salves: Nourish the Skin you’re In! Gina Shvartsman
Fire Workshop; Bow drill, Hand Drill, Ferro Rods Tim Swanson
Cattail Visors Ryan Hogan (10 students/$5)
Blacksmithing Campcraft Tools; awls, firepokers, skewers, hooks Jared Kapsiak (6 students/$10 materials fee)
Continued…
Alpine Cheese Kalyn Campbell (part 2)
Sunday Evening
The Trade. There will be Music! People, bring your instruments! There will be Fire!
The Trade. Bring a blanket and a few things to trade. There are no limitations here, just guidelines. Nothing is too big or too small, we have seen bags of acorns to canoes. Trade for something unexpected and great. This will be a time where you can put your goods out, walk around to check out other goods, and barter in a light-hearted natural manner. This is easiest working in small groups. Raw materials are wonderful, wild edibles and medicine are fantastic, baskets are a plus, hides are always desirable, and really anything handmade is stellar …but leave that scratched cd that you found on the way here under the car seat where it was discovered though.
There will be Music! People, bring your instruments! Traditional Hand Drum Circle – Come celebrate life with music and dance! After a brief introduction to traditional hand drum techniques, polyrhythmic and melodic patterns, listening and improvisation, an open drum and dance session will be shared by all!
There will be Fire!
Monday
Morning Circle 9:00
Morning 9:30-11:30
Tree ID Walk Jonathon Shapiro
Paiute Deadfall Traps Udaya Sun
Paint Making Nick Neddo
Knitting Sabrina Squires ($5)
Mushroom Identification Dave Muska (25 students)
Plant Communication: Connecting with our Photosynthesizing Friends Gina Shvartsman
Flint knapping, Make a Saw Brad Salon (10 students)
Blacksmithing Campcraft Tools; awls, firepokers, skewers, hooks Jared Kapsiak (6 students/$10 materials fee)
Youth! Fire Skills! Elliot Cluba (age 7 and up)
Early afternoon
Herbal Alchemy Elliot Cluba
Butter Making Kalyn Campbell
Natural Dying; Camouflage Len Mackey
Tracking Jonathon Shapiro (12 students)
Ninjutsu Ben Goodrich
Hide Sewing Coleen Butler
Indigo Dying Betsy Kane
Late Afternoon 3:00- 4:30
Flint and Steel with Charcloth Jamie Maloof
Open Flint Knapping Pit for experienced Knappers Brad Salon
Skull Identification Jonathon Shapiro (12 students)
Birding Amasa Fiske-White
Clean up and fare well!
*Some classes are limited in size, to which people sign up at a designated time the night before. If you don’t make it onto the list for the class you want, we see it as an opportunity for you to explore something else, perhaps new to you that you may discover interest in.
Instructors
Sarah Corrigan of Roots School
Brad Salon of Roots School
Ben Goodrich of New England Ninjutsu
Dave Muska of Ondatra Adventures
Keith Grenoble
Lucian Avery of Lucian Avery – Blacksmith
Katie Grove Studios
John Hunt of ReTribe
Ross Doree of Crows Path
Bill Kazor of Ancestral Knowledge
Betzy Bancroft of Vermont Center of Integrative Herbalism
Amasa Fisk-White of Roots School
Dan Farrell
Luke Boushee of Woods Craft
Jonathon Shapiro
Jamie Tyler Maloof O.W.L.S Outdoor Wilderness Learning and Survival and Dancing Moon Girls
Len Mackey
Elliot Cluba
Kalyn Campbell
Jared Kapsiak
Arielle Baraket of Goldenbones Botanical
Jeffrey Hamelman
Julia Shaw of Railyard Apothecary
Betsy Kane
Justin Sutera
Penny Hewitt of Lazy Mill Treecraft
Tessa Scheele
Ryan Hogan
Nick Neddo Author of The Organic Artist
Udaya Sun
Ruby Pinyuh-Derovan of Kroka
Emma Broadhurst
Coleen Butler
Hannah Mitchel The Rowdy Sprout
Tim Swanson Owl Eyes Wilderness
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Roots Rendezvous 2023
September 2, 2023
9:00 am - 5:15 pm