Greetings from Koviashuvik Local Living School!
Family Sustainability Stay: An Educational Vacation
If you and your family have an interest in simplifying life, providing for some of your basic needs, or living more sustainably, this is a great place to start! For three days you will enter into a ready-made sustainable living system where we will work with you each day on skills of your choice. You may weave a basket, build a compost pile or make solar-dehydrated fruit leather. Your kids might make a bow and arrow, start a fire with friction, or twist some string from tree bark. Every Family Stay program includes: harvesting food from the garden, cooking on a rocket stove, carving spoons and eating with them, grinding acorns and baking bread, using a composting toilet and enjoying a solar shower. There will also be ample time to explore local hiking options, swimming holes, and to just “be” as a family.
Accommodations include a spacious white canvas wall tent with wood floor and composting toilet.
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Koviashuvik: Chris and Ashirah Knapp are educators and homesteaders. For the past 18 years they have been gardening, storing the harvest, making baskets, snowshoes and clothing, sharpening tools, splitting wood, gathering wild food, and building homes. When Ashirah and Chris were in their late teens they were graced by a chance encounter with Ray Reitze, a Maine guide who had spent his youth learning from a native elder. Ashirah and Chris spent roughly 6 years apprenticed to “Grandfather” Ray, who’s teachings in earth skills and life philosophy have guided the Knapps ever since. The Knapps taught and guided for Kroka Expeditions for 12 years. They love working with kids and adults of all ages and especially like the dynamic of sharing the life and skills of their family with other families. In 2008 the Knapps co-founded Koviashuvik Local Living School in Temple Maine, where they offer classes in folk arts, and modern-day sustainable living. Chris, Ashirah, and their two young children all live together in a tiny house built from the big woods, where they eat acorns, drink spring water, and sing songs at every meal (for real!) They hope to share the great joy and thankfulness they have found in pursuing a life made right from the earth.
This weekend, Koviashuvik Local Living School is generously offering the following gift to ONE lucky SouleMama reader:
Winner's choice of $100 off the cost of a Family Sustainability Stay or free admission for one to any of the 2015 one-day classes.
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Normally I could not enter due to location, but we are moving to the area for an academic year. I would love this opportunity for my family!
Posted by: Charlotte
