Wilderness Skills School moves to Greenville County
February 21, 2017
EarthSkills, LLC, a wilderness self-reliance school, recently moved to its new teaching site on 10 acres in Pelzer, S.C. Their newly expanded program of study began in February with Survival Knife Skills, a single-day class. EarthSkills, LLC originally launched in the spring of 2013 by Alex Garcia, its principal instructor at historic Hagood Mill and Folklife Center in Pickens County.
“This addition of private land adds new opportunities for the communities EarthSkills serves. Now we offer extended, overnight courses and also include adolescents into our circle of students, providing families an enjoyable outdoor bonding experience” Garcia said. The hands-on survival classes are offered in both single and multiple day courses including evenings where the students camp out on site.
Garcia, a U.S. Army veteran and primitive skills instructor, conducts the monthly courses that encompass the newcomer through advanced skills. Their inventory of courses now includes: The 4 Vital Skills; Empowered Women: Surviving the Wild; Create Fire!; The Survival Bow for Game & Protection and Trapping Fish and Small Game.
EarthSkills, LLC is a wilderness self-reliance school teaching primitive survival skills on two locations in the upstate. Classes are open to all including teenage students when accompanied by a paying guardian. Founded in July 2013 by Alex Garcia, its purpose is to help reacquaint our community with the bounty of nature and to reclaim the skills our culture once depended on to prosper as human beings.
For more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Alex Garcia, please call 864-979-5653 or e-mail [email protected].
