10 a.m. - 4 p.m. monthly on Saturdays during the academic year. $45 for one person, $40 for a second friend/family member, and $35 per additional friend/family member. For detailed itineraries and registration information, click on the links below, or check out our even more affordable Sunday Afternoon Sustainable Homes & Gardens Workshop Series and Weekend Wolf Tracker Trainings.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2011 - POLITICS & ECOLOGY OF THE WOLF at the Wolf Campus in Puyallup, WA. Wolf College staff and guest speakers survey the histoy of the wolf and its current status.

DECEMBER 17, 2011 - MIMA MOUND OAK PRAIRIES: NATIVE HAZELNUTS, PINE NUTS AND THE ACORN at Wolf Haven Int'l near Olympia, WA, located on one of the last remnant "mima mound" prairies in Washington State, and we focus on their oaks. Process acorns into nutritional flour; make medicine from its revered bark; witness fire by friction using oak wood; and boil water using hot rocks in a bowl you make with oak.

JANUARY 7, 2012 - PARFLETCHING & HIDE TANNING at the Wolf College in Puyallup, WA. Description TBA.

FEBRUARY 4, 2012 - WILDERNESS SURVIVAL including FIRE BY FRICTION & BURN BOWLS at Cabela's near Olympia. Build a group fire with all-natural materials, including a heat-reflecting rock wall, and each person will learn to light it with flint and steel. Build your own bow-drill kit to start fire by friction, and if you finish, make a hand-drill kit or learn to rock-boil water in burned-out cedar wood bowls.

MARCH 5, 2011 - EMERGENCY WILD FOODS & HERBAL FIRST AID at the Wolf Campus in Puyallup, WA. Test yourself with an emergency first aid scenario; collect samples of plants and minerals needed for an herbal first aid kit; receive a quick wilderness first aid training; then make salves, tinctures, glycerites, shampoos, lotions, decoctions, teas and/or other herbal remedies in a great day together.

MARCH 31, 2012 - Edible SEAWEEDS & SHELLFISH of the Salish Sea at Deception Pass State Park - Rosario Point & Cornet Bay near Anacortes, WA. Did you know that all seaweeds at our latitute are edible, that some seaweeds are thicken our foods (including Guiness beer) and that others are the source of great medicine? Join us today as we eat "green" seaweeds raw, dry "brown" seaweeds for future electrolyte replenishment, and gather "red" seaweeds to make nori rolls for lunch. Finally, we'll learn the bivalves and other shellfish below the tidelines and make a delectible clam chowder!

MAY 5, 2012 - CHORUS OF THE BIRDS at the Wolf Campus in Puyallup WA. Learn to quickly identify birds by sight and sound, and make recordings as well; run tests on "bird language" which you can read about in advance of class by clicking on Wolf Journey Chapter 8 - Bird Communications. For instance, you will discover when birds give certain alarm calls, and when are they just chatting with one another.

OCTOBER 6 & 27, 2012 - WEAVING WILLOW, NETTLES & CATTAIL in Monroe WA & Vancouver WA. Weave a willow basket and a cattail mat, plus make rope from stinging nettle, one of the Top 10 Most Important Plants, our strongest local native dry plant fiber for making rope, fish nets, and clothing. Process these plants into some of the best winter tonics to keep you healthy, and whip up tasty gourmet dishes today as well.

DECEMBER 8, 2012 - LOST & FOUND: NAVIGATION, ORIENTEERING & EMERGENCY SHELTER in the Olympia-Puyallup area. Help build the Earth Lodge, and receive an overview of other natural building projects in the West. We will also have special presentations from ultralight specialists as well as an intensive primer on survival shelters in case of wilderness emergency.