-Cultivating Resiliency Through Re-Skilling
Raven’s Roots Naturalist School is located on a 5 acre permaculture farm in Ferndale, WA. We offer both short and long term courses pertaining to naturalist and self-reliance skills. Subject areas include wildlife track & sign, herbalism, bird language & behavior, ethnobotany, wild-foraging, permaculture, homesteading techniques, wilderness survival, primitive skills, and wild-crafting.
In addition to the school, we also operate a permaculture plant nursery and medicinal herb farm on our campus. The plant nursery is called 7 Layers Nursery (www.7layersnursery.com) and we specialize in perennial medicinal and edible plants. The herb farm is called Wayside Botanicals (www.waysidebotanicals.com) and we sell both fresh and dried medicinal herbs and herbal medicines that we cultivate and wild harvest ourselves.
We believe these skills are essential to building resilient communities capable of providing for their own needs; and that engaging in these activities creates a deeper connection to the natural world, encouraging stewardship of the resources it provides.
Come join us! We would love to hear from you, whether you are interested in taking a class or attending one of our summer potlucks.
Join one of our 9-10 month immersion programs. These courses meet one weekend per month to build in-depth skill sets. Our next Spring Ethnobotany and Naturalist Immersion courses begin in the spring of 2022.
Short courses range in duration from 1 to 5 days. Current short course offerings include short term survival workshops, fire making, and bird language & behavior. Other courses that will be offered shortly are bow making, home-scale permaculture, plant based medicine, mushroom identification, and wild foraging. If you don't have time to take a full day class, join us for one of our 3 hour naturalist walks where we'll cover everything from plants, birds, mushroooms, tracks and more.
Visit our blog to access all of our articles, videos and updates. They'll give you a feel for the content that we teach here at Raven's Roots as well as our personalities and teaching styles.