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In Person workshops are Back!
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What Is Practical Primitive?
Eddie is from Texas, Julie is from Ontario (Canada); they met in California, spent over 15 years living and teaching in New Jersey, then moved to Southern Kentucky where they now enjoy the warm winters and the slow, friendly pace of the Southern style of life.
For almost 20 years they have taught small-group, adult-only workshops in all aspects of primitive skills, wilderness survival, bushcraft, traditional living, self-reliance and emergency preparedness, both in person and online. Their ability to break down skills and teach them in ways no one else can has brought them thousands of students from all around the world. After pioneering the small-group individual-subject workshop and the multi-month Skills Intensive (including their often imitated, never duplicated World of the Hunter-Gatherer and Ultimate Hunter programs) they began offering Live Online Masterclasses, just in time for the Covid chaos.
In coming back to offer in-person workshops after a four year break, they are no longer interested in just “teaching” ancestral skills. With thousands of survival schools and millions of online videos, the basic “how to” knowledge can be found anywhere.
Instead, their brand new Discovery series and their carefully chosen and interwoven in-person workshops will focus on the knowing that comes with internalizing, integrating and applying these skills into your head, heart and hands. Everything they do will be aimed at helping you achieving a degree of Excellence and Mastery that almost no one is willing to work hard enough to acheive in this everything-at-your-fingertips, YouTube-filled and AI-driven world.
When not teaching (or planning what to teach next), Eddie can usually be found working on growing gourmet / functional mushrooms and dreaming up the next ingenious mushroom-based product for their booth at the farmer’s market and Julie will no doubt be at local animal shelter, of which she is President and forceful advocate for creating low-cost spay-neuter and TNR programs for the county, or else they’ll probably be working in the garden, playing with the dogs, reading by the fire or walking in the woods.
Most of all, they are excited about this new iteration of Practical Primitive and look forward to sharing it with YOU!
Learn More About Julie, Eddie and the History of Practical Primitive…
If you’re like most of our students, you’re watching the world change around you and have begun to feel concerned, even anxious, about how you’ll face the challenges that may lie ahead.
You’ve liked all the pages and watched all the videos and followed all the influencers, but still find yourself confused about what you need to do and who to trust to guide you along the way.
That’s where we come in.
Join the Thousands Worldwide Who Changed their Lives!
“I am so happy you are going to do online stuff as I have been wanting to send people to you for years and now I can. Plus I want to re-take a whole bunch of your courses!”
“My confidence grew as the program went on. I realized I could learn this stuff and that I did not have to be special to figure it out!”
“I consider the time I spent with Practical Primitive to be the best money and time I’ve ever spent on Survival.”
I highly recommend these courses to anyone, period.
- Over 40 years full-time experience teaching all levels of Preparedness and Traditional Living
- 55+ years practice and experience in ecosystems across North America
- Tens of thousands of students around the world
- Successful full-time business that has been teaching, growing, adapting and thriving since 2007
- Led the trends in small-group workshops, individual instruction and skills intensives, now leading in online programs!
- First to offer 100% online courses and programs, while still providing instructor access to every student, personalized attention and one-on-one Mentoring
Start Your Path to Preparedness Today!
“Anytime” Courses that are Yours,
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LIVE Master Classes for the Ultimate Learning Experience!
One-on-One Mentoring Takes You to the Next Level!
Ongoing Training that Keeps You Current, Aware & Prepared!
