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Welcome to Practical Primitive

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NEWS!
- Are you a Practical Primitive FAN? Check out our new Facebook Page!
- Watch our most recent YouTube video — Proper Bowdrill Form — to see how fast, simple and reliable fire-by-friction can be!
- Osage Bow Staves for Sale — Straight-grained, Well-seasoned, Good rings!
- Survival Skills 101 workshop added to August schedule.
- Only a couple of spots left for Medicinal Plants and Traps, Simplified in Texas. Don't miss out — sign up now!
- Now Accepting Applications: Hunter-Gatherer TEXAS & Secrets in the Stone
- Read What Our Students Say on our new "Comments" page.
- Come out to our next FREE Open Skills Night on June 24!
Our Passion is Teaching
We focus our 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 Classes are Small
Our class sizes are limited to a maximum of ten people so you'll get more out of your workshop 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 classes, 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.
"You Must Be the Change You Wish to See in the World."
-- Mahatma Gandhi






