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!
New To Roots
A Handcrafted Life
A series of projects designed to get students working with a variety of tools and materials crafting objects to be used in your day-to-day life. Learn More…
Upcoming Classes
Greenwood Working: Bowls and Spoons
One Class spit over two full weekends: May 23-24 and June 20-21.
Carve, bowls, spoons and utensils from greenwood and learn the process from harvesting to finishing.
Black Ash: From Log To Basket
April 25-26
Pound and process splints from a black ash long and learn to leave it into a beautiful functional basket.
ROOTS Blog
Bow Drill – Ancient Secrets Revealed!
Or, some basic tips... No, really, after 15 years of making, using, and teaching bow drill I have not tired of it's awesome simple magic. Lighting a fire from pieces of wood you carved yourself is a truly remarkable experience for anyone who is conscious and has a...