Bushskills Caribbean Rendezvous 2010
Hunting, Gathering, and Growing
March 4th-7th (with optional Salt River Kayak trip on the 3rd), 2010

Program package (includes camping, 8 classes, and 3 meals per day)
Full Bush Skills package, with meals and camping included ($295)
Optional Salt River kayak trip (see amazing history) is an additional $45 per person

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BUSH SKILLS 2009 see 2008 pics!

SUMMARY The 4th annual Bushskills will feature 4 days of hands-on learning about original lifeways with nature. In four days learn useful skills starting with a foundation in basic survival to how to feast using all natural and primitive methods.

Thursday, March 4 - Primitive Survival Skills: The basics of tropical living -fire, shelter, water, fibers
Friday, March 5 - Herbs and Trees: Medicines, herbalism, crafts, and food.
Saturday, March 6 - Hunting and Gathering: Making hunting tools, ethical hunting and fishing, gathering from wild plants and cultivated plants
Sunday, March 7 - Food Day: How to grow and prepare an all-natural island feast -an all-day bush cook out!!

Some specific skills taught at bush skills:
*Stone Tools, Flint-knapping
*Shell craft
*Primitive pottery
*Tree Fibers and Food
*Fire by Friction
*Jumbies, Roots, and Ancestral Songlines
*Forest Foraging
*Spears & Nets for Fishing
*Hide Tanning Demonstration
*Herbal Healing
*Calabash Craft
*Wild Edible Plants
*Indigenous root crop planting and other ancient agriculture techniques
*Primitive Cookery
*Tracking
*Primitive Shelter building

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Have questions? Need help?
Contact Nate at 706.534-5033, . You can also call Sylvie at 340.332.8255