Family Wilderness Skills Weekend
May 27-30, 2022
(Friday-Monday, 4 days!)
Full--Waitlist
Pine Barrens Primitive Camp, NJ
Another Family Gathering in the Pine Barrens the end of May. This year it will be a 4-day weekend! This weekend will inspire you and your family to get outdoors through the warm seasons to come. We look forward to recalling the Old Ways, sitting around the campfire with friends and family, sharing stories, gratitude, and laughter!
All meals will be provided (dinner on Friday, breakfast/lunch/dinner on Saturday-Sunday, and breakfast on Monday); please include any dietary restrictions in your registration. We can't wait to gather with nature and each other around the fire and under the stars. ❤
See you soon!
- Rick Berry & the 4E Crew
All meals will be provided (dinner on Friday, breakfast/lunch/dinner on Saturday-Sunday, and breakfast on Monday); please include any dietary restrictions in your registration. We can't wait to gather with nature and each other around the fire and under the stars. ❤
See you soon!
- Rick Berry & the 4E Crew
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Spring Family Camp CA
May 14-15, 2022
(Saturday & Sunday)
Burton Education Preserve, CA
4E / Fox Walkers is hosting a Weekend Family Camp at Burton Educational Preserve.
Please join us with your family, all ages welcome!
Saturday May 14, 12 noon to Sunday May 15th 2pm. Bring your camping gear, your kids, a cooler with food, and settle in for a weekend immersed in Nature. We will have activities for ages 5-7, 8-12, 13-15 and the Adults (ages 5-7 will have shorter session times). We will have a camp fire Saturday night for cooking over , storytelling, and night games! Hands on Earth skills activities will be offered; Shelter, Water, Fire Food, nature observation, tracking, care taking, integrating into everyday life for Parents, and plenty of games.
Meals are NOT provided! Please bring food for your family (snacks, lunches, dinner & breakfast). There is a communal outdoor kitchen available, with sink & potable water. We will have a camp fire on Saturday night, if you'd like to bring any food to cook on the fire.
This weekend will inspire you and your family to get outdoors through the warm seasons to come. We look forward to recalling the Old Ways, sitting around the campfire with friends and family, sharing stories, gratitude, and laughter!
We can't wait to gather with nature and each other around the fire and under the stars. ❤
See you soon!
- Rick Berry & the 4E Crew
FAMILY WILDERNESS SKILLS CAMPOUT - NEVADA CITY 2019
We are happy to announce our first Family Wilderness Skills Weekend at the Burton Educational Preserve in Nevada City, CA
Saturday, Sunday and Monday, May 25, 26, 27, 2019.
This is a great opportunity to reconnect with Nature and your family over a weekend!
Arrival times are Saturday afternoon
between 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm.
The program will start at 5:30 pm with Opening Circle
and will run through 12:00 pm on Monday.
$200 Early Bird Price for first Person, until March 15.
After March 15: $225.
$100 Early Bird Price for each additional Family Member, until March 15.
After March 15: $125.
Sunday Only option, $50 for the first person in a family.
$30 for each additional person.
Children 3 and under are free of charge.
Youth 12 and over may attend with or without parent.
To Register click here>>
We are happy to announce our first Family Wilderness Skills Weekend at the Burton Educational Preserve in Nevada City, CA
Saturday, Sunday and Monday, May 25, 26, 27, 2019.
This is a great opportunity to reconnect with Nature and your family over a weekend!
Arrival times are Saturday afternoon
between 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm.
The program will start at 5:30 pm with Opening Circle
and will run through 12:00 pm on Monday.
$200 Early Bird Price for first Person, until March 15.
After March 15: $225.
$100 Early Bird Price for each additional Family Member, until March 15.
After March 15: $125.
Sunday Only option, $50 for the first person in a family.
$30 for each additional person.
Children 3 and under are free of charge.
Youth 12 and over may attend with or without parent.
To Register click here>>
MORE INFORMATION
Join Rick Berry and 4EEE staff during a fun weekend of Earth Skills, Games, and Stories. All ages and experience levels welcome. Youth age 12 and over may attend without an adult. We are very excited to have an opportunity to share this new program with youth and families at The Burton Educational Preserve, the location where we hold our Nevada City Fox Walkers Programs. Skills covered in the program may include:
Join Rick Berry and 4EEE staff during a fun weekend of Earth Skills, Games, and Stories. All ages and experience levels welcome. Youth age 12 and over may attend without an adult. We are very excited to have an opportunity to share this new program with youth and families at The Burton Educational Preserve, the location where we hold our Nevada City Fox Walkers Programs. Skills covered in the program may include:
- Debris hut shelter
- Bow-drill fire making
- Cordage making
- Throwing stick
- Cutting edge stone tool
- Rock boiling
- Fox walking, wide-angle vision
- Awareness games and activities
- Tracking wander
- Lost proofing basics
- Campfire stories and night games
- Campfire cookout
- Attitude and philosophy of a Child of the Earth.
Family Wilderness Skills Weekend
Friday, May 29 to Sunday, May 31, 2020
Pine Barrens, New Jersey
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Friday, May 29 to Sunday, May 31, 2020
Pine Barrens, New Jersey
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Bring your family for a fun-filled weekend in the Pine Barrens!
We will practice basic survival skills including shelter building, lost-proofing, fire-making, rock tools, cordage and camouflage. We will have separate parent activities about “Coyote teaching” methods to bring home to your community.
<< Click Here to Register! >>
Bring your family for a fun-filled weekend in the Pine Barrens!
We will practice basic survival skills including shelter building, lost-proofing, fire-making, rock tools, cordage and camouflage. We will have separate parent activities about “Coyote teaching” methods to bring home to your community.
<< Click Here to Register! >>
Tracker Family Camp
Sunday, Aug 2 to Saturday, Aug 8, 2020
Pine Barrens, New Jersey
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Sunday, Aug 2 to Saturday, Aug 8, 2020
Pine Barrens, New Jersey
<< Register Now! >>
Bring your family for a fun-filled wilderness skills week in the Pine Barrens!
Welcome to our 3rd year of offering the Tracker Family Camp. In 2018 Tom Brown Jr. decided to run the first ever Tracker Family Camp. We are excited that we can have families and little ones in the Pine Barrens Primitive Camp learning directly from the places where Tom learned from Stalking Wolf.
We will practice basic survival skills including shelter building, lost-proofing, fire-making, rock tools, cordage and camouflage. We plan to offer more adventures tracking in the Pines as well as more “edge” experiences for returning parents and youth to push their skills. Tom and Rick Berry will be leading this camp with adventures and skills for both youth and Parents.
<< Click Here to Register! >>
Welcome to our 3rd year of offering the Tracker Family Camp. In 2018 Tom Brown Jr. decided to run the first ever Tracker Family Camp. We are excited that we can have families and little ones in the Pine Barrens Primitive Camp learning directly from the places where Tom learned from Stalking Wolf.
We will practice basic survival skills including shelter building, lost-proofing, fire-making, rock tools, cordage and camouflage. We plan to offer more adventures tracking in the Pines as well as more “edge” experiences for returning parents and youth to push their skills. Tom and Rick Berry will be leading this camp with adventures and skills for both youth and Parents.
<< Click Here to Register! >>
New for Spring 2020 - our Family Programs are meeting ONLINE!
It is critical that we stay connected to each other and to nature during this unexpected and challenging season. The new online format allows us to bring in special guests and share stories and observations from anywhere in the world!
Family Wilderness Skills & Storytelling special events meet on Saturday, 5/9 & Sunday 5/17.
Join us for one or both to hear from guest speakers Jon Young & Tom Brown, Jr!
Fox Walkers' Family Hour is a 4-week series that meets on Mondays, 5/11-6/1.
See below for details and registration.
It is critical that we stay connected to each other and to nature during this unexpected and challenging season. The new online format allows us to bring in special guests and share stories and observations from anywhere in the world!
Family Wilderness Skills & Storytelling special events meet on Saturday, 5/9 & Sunday 5/17.
Join us for one or both to hear from guest speakers Jon Young & Tom Brown, Jr!
Fox Walkers' Family Hour is a 4-week series that meets on Mondays, 5/11-6/1.
See below for details and registration.
Family Online Wilderness Skills and Storytelling
4E’s Special Guest Storytelling and “Dirt Time Nature Adventures”
for ALL AUDIENCES - Families, Teens, Youth, and Adults
Guiding our Youth towards becoming “Children of the Earth”
Special Guest Speakers: Tom Brown Jr. and Jon Young
Saturday May 9th, 1pm-3pm PDT, with Jon Young <<registration closed>>
Sunday May 17th, 1pm-3pm PDT, with Tom Brown Jr. <<click to register>>
Join us for an online interactive Zoom course with Special Guests Tom Brown Jr., Founder of the Tracker School, on May 17th and Jon Young, Founder of 8 Shields, on May 9th. Listen to stories about how Tom learned from Stalking Wolf when he was a boy, as well as how Jon was mentored by Tom Brown starting at age 10.
Hosted by 4 Elements Earth Education’s Founder Rick Berry, and accompanied by 4E Instructors, we will utilize ‘breakout rooms’ via the Zoom platform to provide appropriate instructor to participant ratios while facilitating hands-on, interactive Earth Skills activities.
I am very excited to see this come together; having both Tom and Jon to share how they were guided towards a path of deep Nature Connection. Each having a foundation established as children in learning the old ways, and yet each of them on their own unique Path and approach to education.
As two of my mentors and co-creators of Coyote Tracks Programs/The Children of the Earth Foundation in 1999, we can see now that there are 100 times as many schools, programs, and Organizations as there were 20 years ago. So, the mentoring of one to another continues and multiplies exponentially every year.
In the wake of the current Pandemic we, like nature, find a way to grow and adapt. We have been given a “pause” to ask what we are doing with our lives and hope that we can create a better world for our youth and the future generations. Come join us for some inspiration about getting yourself and your kids outdoors and creating deep connections to the Earth.
<< Space is limited. Click here to register! >>
Fox Walkers' Family Hour
for families with young children (aged 3-5)
<< Click here to register >>
This 4-week series meets on Mondays, 5/11-6/1, from 1pm-2pm PDT.
Sliding scale tuition starts at $75 per family.
This is a weekly online program for families with young children (aged 3-5).
Parents/Guardians will participate and help their children complete the group activities.
Weekly program outline:
- Guessing games as families join
- Virtual sharing circle and gratitude
- Animal forms and movement exercises
- Outdoor Adventure Mission!
- Nature dirt time take-home activities
- Ending circle
Payment Options:
Note that you must obtain pre-approval from your school and register through UltraCamp to use school funding. If you would like 4EEE to be an approved vendor for your Home Study child, please contact us with your child's name and school and request us as a vendor with the school.
If you would like to request a scholarship, please CLICK HERE.
- Pay online with credit card at time of registration.
- To pay by check, please select the check payment option during registration and mail your payment to 4EEE, PO Box 1823, Nevada City, CA 95959. Include your contact information and the session you registered for.
- Charter School students with pre-approval from the school; select Charter School ticket during registration ($20 admin fee applies).
Note that you must obtain pre-approval from your school and register through UltraCamp to use school funding. If you would like 4EEE to be an approved vendor for your Home Study child, please contact us with your child's name and school and request us as a vendor with the school.
If you would like to request a scholarship, please CLICK HERE.