Welcome to The Earth
Connection School of wilderness survival
Do you want to reconnect with the wild?
Deep down every person wants to reconnect with nature. Every person feels the absence of their birthright - to see and understand the ways of the wild, and to eat the fruit of the forest and field.
Television shows and movies can only whet our appetite for the real thing. For most of you, it has been difficult to find a place where you can learn the skills that our ancestors naturally knew.
The Earth Connection
School has been in continuous operation since 1997
Experience Matters
Tim MacWelch founded The Earth Connection School 16 years ago, and the school has run continuously ever since. The Earth Connection School has grown to include a teaching presence at nationally renowned primitive skills events like Rivercane Rendezvous, Falling Leaves Rendezvous and Firefly Gathering. Tim has been featured on 3 National Geographic programs, Good Morning America, Monkeysee.com and many national and local news & radio venues. Tim is also a prolific writer for Outdoor Life Magazine.
The Curriculum Matters
The Earth Connection School teaches a wide variety of hands-on classes, including Friction Fire Making, Wild Edible Plants, Tracking, Basketry, Primitive Tool Making, Hide Tanning, Wilderness Survival, Primitive Cooking and many more subjects!
Check our courses page for detailed course descriptions which explain our class content.
Please help The Earth Connection
School's 4th Annual "Sleeping Bags For The Homeless" Drive
Help The Earth Connection School as we hold our 4th annual "Sleeping Bags for the Homeless" Drive
For many people, survival skills are fun and they represent adventure. For others, these skills are the grim reality of a day to day struggle. Please join us at Earth Connection and give generously to provide this basic element of shelter to those less fortunate. We are accepting new and used sleeping bags, coats, boots and rain gear. We are also accepting new socks (preferably wool or synthetic material) and new long johns (preferably polypropylene material). All items will be donated to the homeless shelters of the greater Fredericksburg area. Just mail us your kindly donated items - or deliver them to us during your next class. For each donation, we will present you with a special gift as our way to say thank you. This drive will continue until spring 2012. You’ll have all winter to help us out, but please don't wait - people need your help right now. Thank you so much!
Mail your donations to: Earth Connection - PO Box 32 - Somerville VA 22739
Limited Special Class -
One Day Hide Tanning Crash Course at Banshee Reeks Nature
Preserve
August 18 in Leesburg, Virginia
Want to learn how to tan hides? Join us for the opportunity to work through all of the tanning stages and go home with half a hide of tanned buckskin in just ONE DAY! All tools, materials and a hide will be provided. See our Course Page for More info.
What's coming up next?
Our 2012 schedule is here!
Check out our exciting schedule for next year. Sign up early to guarantee your placement!
Contact Information
- Telephone: 540-270-2531
- Postal address: PO Box 32 Somerville VA 22739
Travel Directions: Directions to our locations are given out AFTER registration in a class. There are no travel directions posted on this website. - Email: econnect@earth-connection.com
Send mail to earthconnect@earth-connection.com with questions or comments about this web site.
When sending emails to this address please state Earth Connection Request in the subject line. Emails sent with a blank subject may not be opened.