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firemaking

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March 21, 2025 / 10am-2pm
Berkeley, CA

Learn one of humanity’s oldest and most essential skills. Together we’ll explore everything you need to know to build and tend a fire using only found natural materials.

Guides will teach the basic components and processes of firemaking without lighters or matches, with plenty of time for hands-on practice. You’ll walk away with real-world survival skills, environmental awareness, and a greater appreciation for the patience, focus, and respect required to work with fire.

register for 3/21
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community hikes

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Saturday, February 21 / 10am-1pm
Oakland, CA

Saturday, April 18 / 10am-1pm
Lake Lagunitas, CA

Everyone is welcome! Youth, families, educators, supporters - come together and spend a few hour outdoors hiking with the Back to Earth crew.

Guides will lead the group through the landscape. We’ll walk and get to know each other, stopping occasionally to learn about the environment and to speak our gratitude.

rsvp for 2/21

Keep exPloring

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field notes:
what we’re reading and writing

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Our version of a blog - original thoughts and reposted content, on reconnecting to what is sacred and wild in ourselves and our world.

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expanding equity & access in wilderness education

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The WILD Scholars Program is a wraparound mentoring and scholarship program for Bay Area high school students from communities who have been historically underrepresented in wilderness education.

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meet the back to earth guide and mentor community

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We are mentors, climbers, builders, farmers, writers, poets, singers, dancers, medics, leaders, teachers, healers, learners, lovers of earth and sky …

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