Guided plant walks, hands-on workshops, bushcraft sessions, seasonal survival excursions, and custom learning for private groups.
Choose your way outside
Experiences built around place, season, and people.
Rates below are starting points. Every private program is confirmed only after discussing the location, group, goals, physical demands, permissions, weather, and seasonal conditions.
Foraging
Plant walks & workshops
Choose an instructional walk for plant identification or a hands-on workshop built around gathering and processing available resources.
Public guided plant walk
$30 per person
2–3 hours
No minimum · 20-person maximum
Children under 12 attend free
A walking, discussion-led experience in a local park. Robert introduces useful plants, identification patterns, habitat, lookalikes, and responsible harvest practices. These walks are primarily instructional rather than collecting-focused.
A more physical program that may include picking, digging, cleaning, processing, or preparation. The available plants, season, property access, and learning goals determine the final format and rate.
Focused training in useful outdoor systems, offered in local parks where permitted or customized for a host’s private property.
Public bushcraft session
$50 per person
2–3 hours
Maximum 6 participants
Local park · permissions permitting
A small-group session that may focus on fire skills, cordage making, safe knife and axe skills, primitive traps, shelter systems, or another agreed skill set.
A tailored program shaped by the property, group, available materials, safety considerations, and desired skills. Scope and final pricing are set after a detailed conversation.
Seasonal small-group overnight field excursions in the Southern Appalachians. Locations are selected based on conditions, participant readiness, land-use requirements, and available authorization, and are shared only with confirmed participants. Excursions are offered only on approved public lands or by arrangement on suitable private property.
Single-night excursion
$500
Maximum 4 participants
Late fall through early spring
Pre-trip discussion required
An intensive overnight focused on shelter construction, strenuous fire preparation and maintenance, knife and axe skills, water sourcing and treatment, campfire cooking, navigation, and wilderness mindset.
Choose an introduction to camping followed by a survival overnight, or primitive survival-skills training followed by a survival overnight. Both options build toward applying essential systems through two full nights outdoors.
Survival training may be possible on a requester’s wooded property when the acreage, access, resources, terrain, and safety conditions support the program.
A trail-centered survival program covering response priorities, exposure, signaling, navigation, water, and an unplanned night out.
Custom group learning
Have another community or learning goal in mind? Programs can be explored by inquiry when the season, site, and scope are a good fit.
Before booking
Start with a conversation.
Please include your preferred season or date range, location, approximate group size and ages, property details if applicable, and the skills you want to explore. Offerings are limited, seasonal, and subject to site suitability and availability.
