Ancestral Knowledge has been working with home-schooled youth for several years now. We have tried many variations of programs and found that seasonal bimonthly meetings work the best. The 5 hour program is part primitive skills and part naturalist studies. The intent of the program is to broaden the students awareness of their environment and their role with in it. Each skill we teach has a lesson that is larger then the obvious. They are designed to lead the students to discover a new plant, tree, or other skill set to
complete the task at hand or will be needed for another. Each participant is given projects that to be worked on between meetings to help create a self motivated passion to learn about the old ways of life while exposing them to experiences that they might never have otherwise. Each season we end with a three day two night camp out. On this adventure in the Shenandoah Mountains the participants put to use the skills that they have been practicing throughout the program. We are very proud of our students and are amazed at how much they want to learn every time we meet with them.
Ancestral Knowledge has been working with home-schooled youth for several years now. We have tried many variations of programs and found that seasonal bimonthly meetings work the best. The 5 hour program is part primitive skills and part naturalist studies. The intent of the program is to broaden the students awareness of their environment and their role with in it. Each skill we teach has a lesson that is larger then the obvious. They are designed to lead the students to discover a new plant, tree, or other skill set to 
complete the task at hand or will be needed for another. Each participant is given projects that to be worked on between meetings to help create a self motivated passion to learn about the old ways of life while exposing them to experiences that they might never have otherwise. Each season we end with a three day two night camp out. On this adventure in the Shenandoah Mountains the participants put to use the skills that they have been practicing throughout the program. We are very proud of our students and are amazed at how much they want to learn every time we meet with them.
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