Earthskills Rendezvous is an ancestral skills gathering that happens twice a year in the Southeastern United States.  The gathering is a week-long educational camping event where participants come to learn ancient skills, connect with nature, and experience a more community-oriented atmosphere. Join us!

Check out this PBS video from 1998 about Earthskills!

Folkways Season 200, Episode 203

Our focus is top quality instruction in dozens of ancestral and heritage primitive skills such as matchless fire making, foraging for wild edible and medicinal plants, stone tool creation and use, basket making, and wood working just to name a few.  After a full day of hands on instruction, evening programs give you the opportunity to join in the revival of the great oral tradition of storytelling around the council fire, or the option to pull up a chair in any of the many camps where homegrown and traditional Appalachian music is played, or the opportunity to answer the call of the drum and dance around the fire under a star filled sky. Striving for cooperation, generosity of spirit, tolerance and harmonious relationships, we welcome the skills, art, music and culture of all human ethnicities.

Earthskills Rendezvous, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit organization.  All donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

Offering classes is a big part of what we do!  We teach skills!  Dozens of classes are offered daily.  Class sign-up sheets for each day are posted in the afternoon of the day before.  We have two class periods each day – AM and PM.   AM classes start around 10am and PM classes around 2pm.