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School of Wilderness
Survival and Ancient Skill
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Welcome to the online Field Guide To Friction Fire brought to you by Earth Connection School of Wilderness Survival and Ancient Skills, in Virginia, U.S.A. This field guide is here to provide a useful resource for anyone who is interested in the art of making fire by friction. Please enjoy the site, and use this information ethically and responsibly. Never light a fire that you cannot put out.
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The mission of Earth Connection is to provide useful information in the form
of this publication, it's sister site
Field Guide To Primitive Skills, and
Earth Connection's hands on outdoor skills classes in Virginia, USA.
We teach our students how to be comfortable and feel at home in the wilderness; and to understand the resources and history around them.
Our school teaches modern, historically and prehistorically based skills in a way that makes them relevant to modern people. We welcome students who are with us to learn skills that will keep them safe in the wilderness and students who are here to learn more about the lives of their ancestors.
Earth Connection is an outdoor school which was founded in March of 1997 by Tim MacWelch. In 2002, "Hue" Hueston began assisting Tim and his wife Jennifer with their classes. Since 2005, Hue has been a welcomed co-instructor at all of our classes.
We are not the biggest or oldest school teaching primitive skills. We are however the most sincere and least cultish school teaching wilderness survival and general primitive technologies in the entire Mid-Atlantic. We are neither New Age, Hippie, Militia or Survivalist. We have no hidden agenda in our classes. We are not selling our own brand of religion or spirituality. Each class teaches what it promises to teach. We feel that our hands-on courses and personal attention provide the best way to learn primitive technology and outdoor skills. We're a small school with better service; and we're also leading the way in outdoor skills education by developing and offering ground breaking courses like Edible Plants of each season, Primitive Cooking and Fire Making techniques that you won't see anywhere else.
Earth Connection is a school of primitive skills and wilderness survival
offering weekend courses and private weekday courses, for persons 18 and older. Our specialties are classes in Friction Fire Making and
Wild Edible Plants. And we also teach a variety of other subjects in outdoor
skills and primitive technologies through our courses on Wilderness Survival,
Primitive Skills, Tracks and Sign,
Basketry, Primitive Tool Making, Hide Tanning. And new for
2007, we invite you to our Organic Gardening class!
Click on
Earth Connection to visit our
school web site for details about these
courses.
 Tim MacWelch is the founder and head instructor of Earth Connection School of Wilderness Survival and Ancient Skills. He has been a student of primitive skills for twenty years now, studying wilderness survival and primitive technologies with most of the top schools and instructors in the east. He has also been a teaching assistant and guest instructor for many of his teachers. He has independently studied Botany, and wild edible plants in particular, for the past two decades. Tim's favorite primitive skill is friction fire making. Tim's school Earth Connection is located in Northern Virginia, and offers outdoor classes throughout the year. Our hands-on classes are always kept small in size to ensure that each student gets all of the attention and skills coaching that they deserve.
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Survival and Ancient Skills
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