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4EEE Teen, Adult and Family Programs
Our Programs introduce Earth Skills, a blend of the ancient arts of tracking, wilderness survival, and nature awareness. Through our programs, a re-thinking of our connection to nature begins to occur.
Through hands-on skills, games, songs and storytelling, we create an "invisible school", where kids learn directly from the Earth while having tons of fun, laughing and playing with each other. Our curriculum is inspired from Indigenous values and the Old Ways Earth Skills, largely learned from the Tracker School and through each Instructor's own "dirt time" living these skills.
Located in the Burton Educational Preserve, a few minutes from downtown Nevada City, previously know as Burton Homestead. This 38+ acres of land is home to our Fox Walkers programs and the Pata Panaka Village site, a restoration of the landscape and the rebuilding of a cultural village with the Siakumne Tribe.
Nature is not simply a resource that we control as a product, but a relationship we must cultivate.
Current Programs
Youth Day Programs:
Late Winter Session
Young Fox Walkers | Wednesdays | 9am - 12pm | Ages 5-7
Fox Walkers | Fridays | ALL DAY | 9am - 4pm | Ages 8-15
Our Fox Walkers Youth Programs introduce Earth Skills, a blend of the ancient arts of tracking, wilderness survival, and nature awareness. Through our programs, a re-thinking of our connection to nature begins to occur. Nature is not simply a resource that we control as a product, but a relationship we must cultivate. Through hands-on skills, games, songs and storytelling, we create an "invisible school", where kids learn directly from the Earth while having tons of fun, laughing and playing with each other.
Our curriculum is inspired from Indigenous values and the Old Ways Earth Skills, largely learned from the Tracker School and through each Instructor's own "dirt time" living these skills.
Young Fox Walkers
Starts February 25th through April 1st - 6 Weeks
Wednesdays | Ages 5-7
9am - 12pm
Burton Education Preserve
Fox Walkers
Fridays | Ages 8-15
9am - 4pm
Starts February 27th through April 3rd - 6 Weeks
Burton Education Preserve
Spring Break
Fox Walkers | Monday through Friday | 9:30am - 3:30pm | Ages 7-17 *Different content will be offered for age groups 8-11 and 12-17.
Participants will craft their own snap bows and arrows, including blunt arrows for safe practice shooting. They’ll learn tracking and awareness skills, explore hunting ethics, and develop a caretaker mindset that honors life and land alike.
Guided by Rick Berry, who learned traditional hunting ways while living in the remote Klamath Mountains, this experience goes far beyond making tools. It is an invitation into relationship and a commitment to listen to the land, move with awareness, and understand the responsibility that comes with taking a life.
Throughout the week, youth will engage with old teachings that ask important questions, including:
How do we fill the space created when we take a life?
And how do we give back: to the land, the community, and the living world that sustains us?
This is not about sport or conquest.
It is about respect, responsibility, and remembering our place within the natural world.
April 6th through April 10th
Monday - Friday
Fox Walkers Spring Break
Ages 7-17
9:30am - 3:30pm
Burton Education Preserve
Spring Session
Young Fox Walkers | Wednesdays | 9am - 12pm | Ages 5-7
Fox Walkers | Fridays | ALL DAY | 9am - 4pm | Ages 8-15
Our Fox Walkers Youth Programs introduce Earth Skills, a blend of the ancient arts of tracking, wilderness survival, and nature awareness. Through our programs, a re-thinking of our connection to nature begins to occur. Nature is not simply a resource that we control as a product, but a relationship we must cultivate. Through hands-on skills, games, songs and storytelling, we create an "invisible school", where kids learn directly from the Earth while having tons of fun, laughing and playing with each other.
Our curriculum is inspired from Indigenous values and the Old Ways Earth Skills, largely learned from the Tracker School and through each Instructor's own "dirt time" living these skills.
Young Fox Walkers
Starts April 15th through May 27th - 7 Weeks
Wednesdays | Ages 5-7
9am - 12pm
Burton Education Preserve
Fox Walkers
Fridays | Ages 8-15
9am - 4pm
Starts April 17th through May 29th - 7 Weeks
Burton Education Preserve
Summer Day Camps
Our Fox Walkers Youth Programs introduce Earth Skills, a blend of the ancient arts of tracking, wilderness survival, and nature awareness. Through our programs, a re-thinking of our connection to nature begins to occur. Nature is not simply a resource that we control as a product, but a relationship we must cultivate. Through hands-on skills, games, songs and storytelling, we create an "invisible school", where kids learn directly from the Earth while having tons of fun, laughing and playing with each other.
Our curriculum is inspired from Indigenous values and the Old Ways Earth Skills, largely learned from the Tracker School and through each Instructor's own "dirt time" living these skills.
Fox Walkers Summer Day Camps: Ages 8-16 | 9:30-3:30 | Burton Education Preserve
Week 1: July 6 - July 10
Week 2: July 13 - July 17
Week 3: July 20 - July 24
Young Fox Walkers Summer Day Camps: Ages 5-7 | 9:30-12:30 pm | Burton Education Preserve
Week 1: July 6 - July 10
Week 2: July 13 - July 17
Week 3: July 20 - July 24
Meet the Cali Crew
4 Elements Earth Education brings the arts of wilderness survival to life through outdoor adventure, storytelling, and hands-on development of Earth skills.
Our Instructors have a variety of skills and experience as they guide youth towards nature's teachings. We are constantly "role-modeling" respect with the natural world and with each other.
Contact us.
Burton Educational Preserve
16200 Lake Vera Purdon Road, Nevada City, CA, 95959
Info@4eee.org
(530)-265-2036