I notice more and more survival skills books coming out and I can’t help but feel as I thumb through them that the civilized concept of survival only means; temporary emergency preparedness or surviving long enough to get rescued or make it back [to civilization] alive. Most books and classes do not focus on total collapse or do not focus on life-long rewilding.
Will we really need to start fires with pop cans forever? Can we really live eating pine bark for the rest of our lives? Does knowing what berries to eat help us in the winter time? What would a real field guide to post-apocalyptic survival tell us? What would a real post-apocalyptic survival course teach? Does a book or school exist that teaches more than these post-apocalyptic parlor tricks?!?
Wouldn’t it feel great if such a school existed that focused on long term thrival instead of temporary survival? Well, ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between, have I got news for you! My best buds over at TrackersNW have cooked up two rewilding immersion programs, one for teens and one for adults that aims to not just connect students with nature, but give people the skills to create cultures that thrive with the land. The only real preparedness comes with creating a whole new world. Check it out:
Dear Scout,
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!
These programs need more publicity.
Thank you for educating me.
Christine
That’s quite a school. I wish there was something like it in my area. Have you ever considered actually writing a post apocalypse survival manual?
Darrin
I’ve often thought about writing a book about setting your life up to learn the skills, but not a skills book. There are so many survival manuals out there it’s ridiculus. Most of them don’t teach the real living techniques though. There are books that teach that too, they just don’t market themselves as such.
YAY! I am so excited about this program! I cannot wait to move back to Portland, either
-emily
Thanks for the tips. People don’t realize how close we are to this happening.
RE: long term survival guides.
There is a must read book on this subject although it is not a survival guide per say.
One Man’s Wilderness is a fascinating story of a man, Dick Proenneke who left his urban life behind, moved to twin lakes, Alaska and forged a living out of the wilderness. Granted, he had bi-annual deliveries from a float plane but even in a post apocalyptic world, one would never be alone. There would be others, some hostile, some willing to trade and so on.
This is a true story though and could lend a lot of background knowledge to the subject.
For visuals, i am sure that there was also a documentary made of it by PBS or something.
David