2024 COMBINED GATHERING Wilder waters Community and moose ridge
25-28 July 2024
@ wilderwaterscommunity @MOOSERIDGEWILD
NOTE: GATHERING WILL BE HELD IN UPTON, ME
Come to our community to learn primitive skills, indulge in delicious food, and explore the land.
VIDEO from 2023 gathering
Wake up in your tent among the balsam firs.
Join us for coffee (option for roast your own coffee beans) and tea and organic and local breakfast.
After breakfast, choose from ancestral skills experts to learn from.
Enjoy a mid-day break games and activities (archery and atlatl competitions) bring picnic lunch or purchase lunch.
In the afternoons, have another opportunity to learn from our teachers.
Indulge in an organic and local dinner in community.
Spend the nights stargazing and conversing around the fire.
Know that 100% of the proceeds will be used to purchase and protect wild land.
Find out more about our conservation efforts HERE.
3 Days, 3 Nights in Upton, ME (optional Bonus day)
You will arrive the afternoon of Thursday, 25 July to set up your campsite, dinner for purchase, and participate in opening events. Beginning on Friday and extending into Sunday afternoon, you will learn, eat, explore, bathe, and sleep amongst the forest and our of your fellow students. Our classes are primitive skills and nature-connection focused. Learn more about Our Instructors below. We have added an optional Thursday Day Intensive Course, thus you would arrive Wednesday afternoon.
Kids are welcome!
Thursday, July 25 - sunday, july 28
Adults $130 ($158)
child age 11-18 $60 ($85)
child age 5-10 $35 ($55)
Includes classes, tent site, and parking.
Breakfast and dinner are purchased as a separate meal ticket. Lunch and snacks available for purchase a la carte.
(Price increase after May 1st)
No charge for children under 5 years of age.
this event will be held at MOOSERIDGE WILDERNESS SCHOOL in UPTON, me.
(Directions may be found below).
Our Team
(Persons listed are that taught in 2023, some are returning, others will be new instructors, check back for updated list.)
Arthur Haines
Come join Arthur, author of A New Path, on a plant walk and a forest archery walk.
andy dobos
Andy of Forest Wolf Programs leads spoon carving class and tracking.
Michael douglas
Michael of Maine Primitive Skills School is teaching bow-drill.
bob berg
Bob of Thunderbird Atlatl will be teaching atlatl making & flint knapping.
NICK SPADERO
Generate fire using friction with Nick, specifically hand drill.
Gerald Jacobs
"Butch" Jacobs will be crafting Passamaquoddy baskets with black ash.
Natalie michelle
Natalie is a Penobscot and Passamaquoddy woman who will be leading a discussion.
CAELAN DUNWOODY
Explore knife & tool sharpening and wilderness first aid.
Laura wolfer
Laura Wolfer offers Spindle & Whorl: Hand Spinning Plant & Animal Fiber and ecoprinting.
HARMONY CRONIN
Special guest from out west known as an apocalyptic Viking warrior princess.
WREN MOROCCO
Wren, an art teacher, is our lead kid’s camp instructor.
…AND MORE!
Have an instructor in mind that you’d like to learn from? Send us your idea to wilderwaterscommunity@gmail.com and we’ll try to get them here!
For more instructors and details, please click the black button below…
DAY CLASSES INCLUDE
Edible and Medicinal Plants
Friction Fire
Spoon Carving
Twined Baskets
Drumming
Primal Movement
Knapping
And more...
Rabbit Hide Tanning
Acorn Processing
Botanical Illustration
Buckskin pouch sewing
daily schedule
Thursday, July 25th
2 - 5 Sign-in, set-up campsite
5 - 6 Dinner for purchase or bring your own
Friday, July 26th
8 - 9 Breakfast
9 - 12 Morning Classes
12 - 1:30 Picnic Lunch or Lunch for Purchase
1:15-2 Contests
2 - 5 Afternoon classes
5 - 6 Potluck Dinner
NIGHT Fire & Smores
Saturday, July 27th
8 - 9 Breakfast
9 - 12 Morning Classes
12 - 1:30 Picnic Lunch or Lunch for Purchase
1:15 - 2 Competition
2 - 5 Afternoon classes
5 - 6 Dinner
NIGHT Raffle & Trade Blanket
Sunday, July 28th
8 - 9 Breakfast & Closing Circle
9 - 12 Morning Classes
12 - 1 Picnic Lunch or Lunch for Purchase
2 - 3 Finish up projects, ask instructors questions, pack up campsite
*Classes are subject to change.*
Kid's camp ages 5+
There will be engaging activities scheduled for children while classes are occurring. Participation is not mandatory and the children will be treated as sovereign. In other words, children can come to Kid's Camp and go as they please. Children must know where their caregivers are at all times and how to find them in case they decide not to participate. The children are also encouraged to attend classes, depending on their level of focus and the individual instructor's wishes.
Children under 4 years of age will need parent supervision in kids camp or must remain with their parents throughout the event.
organic, local meals
Le Cordon Bleu trained Mark Cahill and Caelan Dunwoody, and Mark’s son Nolan will cooking daily omnivorous breakfasts and dinners for all of our meal ticket holders.
“There was a time when there were no questions about what you were to eat. Dietary wisdom was part of your cultural heritage. You knew exactly what organisms would be gathered as nourishment, where and when they could be found, and how they would be prepared.... This information was handed down from very early on and became part of the individual’s understanding of their landscape. It was a component of human ecology. ”
our co-host, Moose Ridge Wilderness School
176 Back Street, upton, Maine 04261
This location is near to Lake Umbagog!
Parking and tent site included.
Central fire pit.
Shelter for inclement weather.
Drinking water available.
Thursday, 25 July to sunday, 28 july
Adults $130 ($158)
child age 11-18 $60 ($85)
child age 5-10 $35 ($55)
Breakfast and dinner are purchased as a separate meal ticket. Lunch and snacks available for purchase a la carte.
Lunch is not provided.
(Price increase occurs on May 1st)
Net profits and all donations will be used to conserve wild land.
resources
DIRECTIONS to combined gathering co-hosted at Moose Ridge