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Welcome to Practical Primitive
WINTER WORKSHOPS
NOW ONLINE
!!
Brand New Workshops
Old Favorite Workshops
Baskets, Fire, Lighting, Medicinal Plants
and Much More
All Coming up
THIS WINTER!
SIGN UP NOW!
NEWS!
- JANUARY & FEBRUARY WORKSHOPS NOW AVAILABLE! Our January and February workshops are now on the schedule -- check them out and sign up today!
- NEW THIS FALL: FREEBIE FRIDAYS! — Evening workshops on the first Friday of each month available to you ABSOLUTELY FREE! Check out the schedule, and join us for these FREE evening session, beginning in September!
- BRAND NEW WORKSHOPS! — Join us this Summer for all kinds of great new workshops, including Growing Your Own Mushrooms, Pressure Flaking, Advanced Pottery, Bowl & Spoon Carving, and Much More!
- Ready to take your Skills to the next level? Join the FERAL HUMAN PROJECT! Our full-time learning program is accepting applicants!
- Practical Primitive T-shirts, DVDs, Books & More are all available through The Trading Blanket —Check it out!
- Read What Our Students Say on our "Comments" page.
- Do you "LIKE" Practical Primitive? Follow us on Facebook!
Our Passion is Teaching
We focus our small-group, hands-on, adult-only workshops on specific topics, and provide Personal Mentoring sessions on almost any aspect of Traditional and Primitive skills. Do more than just gather knowledge; work hands-on with the tools and materials that will help you to fully integrate a strong and stable repertoire of skills into your life. Taught practically and learned passionately, there need not be any distinction between "class time" and "the real world".
Practically Seeking
Our Workshops are Small
Our workshop sizes are limited to a maximum of six to ten adults, depending on the subject, so you'll get more out of your learning experience. Keeping the student-to-instructor ratio so low ensures that you will get the personalized attention you need to have your questions answered and your needs addressed. We teach in the manner that is best for you, not easiest for us. If you can't do at home what you learned in our workshops, we didn't do our job!

Our Focus is You
Small classes, Personal Mentoring, reasonable prices, weekend workshops — we have dedicated our program to providing you with the best in affordable, top-quality instruction in a wide variety of Primitive and Traditional skills. We'll even bring our Workshops to You! At Practical Primitive, our committment is to providing you with the practical means for you to master and integrate the knowledge of our shared ancestry into your modern life.
"Distance is the Enemy of Awareness"
-- J.B. Mackinnon
