School Profile

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.  

What do we teach?

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.