THE WAY OF THE CARETAKER
with Tom Brown III and FutureNature

April 21-23, 2023
Burton Educational Preserve, Nevada City, CA (map)​

This is a weekend course designed for Adults and Parents wanting to learn the caretaker philosophy. 4E's Rick Berry and Pashu Esquibel are joined by Tom Brown lll (T3), who grew up learning outdoor skills with his Dad, Tom Brown Jr. and the Tracker School. We are very excited to have T3 join us and share not only his time with his Dad but also his past decade forging his own path teaching Earth Skills on the west coast. Topics will be based on the four survival elements, including Tracking, Awareness, and Earth Living Philosophy.

     Friday 4/21 (5-6pm arrival) - Sunday 4/23 (2pm departure)

     Sliding Scale Pricing: $700 | $600 | $500
          On-site camping and all meals included. Attendees should bring basic camping gear.
          Scholarships available upon request.

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The program will be run at the site of 4E's Burton Educational Preserve and Pata Panaka Village in partnership with the Tsi Akim Maidu Tribe. Rick Berry will share about the unique site and 4E's accountability to caretake the land and build relations with Indigenous Tribes. Pashu Esquible, Lead Instructor, will take folks on a tour of the many caretaking projects 4E is doing on the land.

T3 from FutureNature will share ways to deepen our connection with the natural world by teaching you ways to “take your senses to the gym”. This will help you to reclaim the level of awareness shared by all our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Through skills such as movement, learning not to look but truly see sense, and feel your surroundings. When we “plug-in” to Nature and learn how to communicate with the more-than-human world, we can realize the damage we need to heal within ourselves and our communities and then begin to assume our role as caretakers once again. where we live in harmony with each other, and the Earth. You will learn to immerse yourselves in Nature, not stare at it through a pane of glass. He will also pass on methods to get our young ones back to Nature and away from the lure of the digital world.

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Track & Sign Certification with CyberTracker North America
March 11-12, 2023
Nevada City, CA

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Fox Walkers Earth Skills for Adults
with Instructors Pashu Esquibel & Rick Berry

Mondays
​January 23 to February 13 2023
3:30 -5:30pm
Burton Educational Preserve in Nevada City, CA. (map)

Step into nature, develop deeper levels of self-confidence and awareness with our adult Fox Walkers program. During a session at Fox Walkers, participants will learn about the Sacred Order of Survival, the basic skills necessary to create a comfortable home in nature.  Through the skills of awareness, tracking, shelter, water, fire and food, we can discover and rekindle our true connection with the Earth. In that relationship, 'survival' becomes a dirty word, because there is no need to 'survive' our Earth Mother. Weekly classes will present ancient human skills through hands-on experiences, stories and games. Each day of class will be dictated by the environment and the story of the day.

Core skills include:
- debris shelter building
- finding and purifying water
- fire by friction
- hunting/trapping
- edible/ medicinal plants
- tracking
- cordage making
- stone tools
...and so much more.

This class is sure to be EPIC. See you there!