Earth Skills Gathering

Name: Earth Skills Gathering
Start: 2025-05-16T03:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-05-18T14:00:00+10:00
Location: Central Coast, Nsw

Schedule

Fri, 16 May, 2025 at 03:30 am to Sun, 18 May, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

Central Coast, Nsw | Sydney, NS

Join us for a weekend delving into hands-on outdoor living practises and skills that allow us to feel more capable in the bush.

As a species, we have evolved with and a part of the natural environment, all of our senses and physiology are wired to be outdoors! So when we re-learn the ways of our land-based ancestors we unlock very primal aspects of ourselves and where we have come from.
These skills are innate within every human, we have just been placed out of context within this modern world that has been built away from nature.
These weekend camp outs are great opportunities to up-skill your bush survival knowledge, learn to feel more at home in the bush and take various skills away with you to practise.

This is Wild Beings 5th year of running these gatherings, formerly called "Ancestral Skills Gatherings".

Skills Workshops:

Fire by friction methods
Shelter Building with natural materials
Traditional cooking methods
Natural rope/string making
Wild Foods and Medicines
Bone Craft
Bushcrafts; making a quad pod for wild jerky, bush peg making, bush billy can hook

Knowledge will be shared on:
Local ecology, wildlife, seasonal foraging.
Traditional Tanning & Ancestral Skills
Being bushwise
Bird Language and ID

There will be guest facilitators coming to share knowledge on traditional living skills.

TRADE BLANKET
Bringing back hand made trade economy, a great way to display your crafts/skills & be inspired by others. Bring your hand-crafted items to trade, do not underestimate the value of some of the items up for trade! More info in the email.

The intention of this gathering is to bring you into nature and teach skills that enable you to feel closer to the earth and empower you to be more comfortable in the bush.
A place for like-minded folks to connect & share skills with one another.

This is an off-grid camping gathering, BYO camp gear, there is plenty of flat space to set up on the private land we are based on.
Communal Dinners Provided, please BYO Lunch, breakfast and snacks.
We will be catering around local, organic fresh produce and wild game meat. We can meet all dietary needs just get in touch.

The location is on private property on the Central Coast, only 25 minutes from Tuggerah.
It is a stunning property nestled between two ridges, where two creeks meet. Beaming with birdlife & biodiversity, the land is truly a special gem hidden amidst the Central Coast's hinterland.

These gatherings are for those who love the outdoors and want to learn bush skills that allow you to feel more capable and in tune with your local ecology. Suitable for all levels of experience.

This gathering is for adults, 15+
(For family gatherings head to WildCraft Australia www.wildcraftaustralia.com)

Arrival 3.30pm Friday
Finish 3pm Sunday

Investments:
Adult: $450
Returning attendees: $370 per adult.

Payment plans available, contact [email protected]
The tickets include all workshops, 2 x catered dinners & camping costs.

Look forward to seeing you there!
Eva, Will & Clay.

We honour the lands we gather on and the Original Custodians who tended & lived life out on these lands for thousands of generations. We honour the age-old history and culture that was and is lived out on these lands and pay our respects to Elders past present and emerging.