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JFAM JOCSM SHABBATON and Family Camp
JFAM is a Jewish family Shabbat or holiday weekend family camp. A JFAM family camp weekend is a chance to be together as a family, enjoy activities planned just for you, and meet new friends with aligned…

Thrive Eco Learning – Food Preservation Through the Seasons
Learn the basics of preserving produce and herbs through the processes of fermentation and drying in this hands-on interactive workshop. Participants will explore the science and health benefits of fermenting…

Way of the Wilderness – Bamboo Crafts, Navigation and Grass Mats
This class is all about crafts mainly using the grasses. Make mats, clothing, Digeri doo’s, water bottles, spoons, rice cookers etc.

Way of the Wilderness – Fall Wild Edible, Medicinal and Useful Plants
Learn about the fall edible and medicinal plants. This is the season of the nuts. Learn the basics of many nut preparations.

Way of the Wilderness – Reading the Forested Landscape
This class will allow you to see what happened hundreds of years ago and see why the land is the way it is today. This is a really eye opening walk, once you go on it you will never see your eco-system…

Way of the Wilderness – Tending the Wild / Caretaking
This is Joe Murray’s favorite class! Learn why eco-systems collapse when indigenous peoples are removed from their land, and how native people gathered from the land in such a way that animals, food and…

Way of the Wilderness – Summer Wild Edible, Medicinal and Useful Plants
This is the season of the berries. Learn much more about our plant relatives. Be prepared to sample and eat many new foods and have a great time.

Way of the Wilderness – Advanced Survival: Bow Drill Fire and Cordage
Make your own bow drill fire kit and hopefully make a fire with it. Learn to make cordage (a type of rope) out of natural materials.

Way of the Wilderness – Awareness / Bird Language
Start learning the language of the birds. Learn how to move as one with the landscape and to find the wildlife before it finds you.

Way of the Wilderness – Spring Wild Edibles Class
Join Joe Murray for our Spring Wild Edible, Medicinal and Useful Plants Class!