Learn to feed your family with healthy food for you and the environment.
Participate in the ecology of your bio-region and take responsibility for your impact.
Nurture your body, mental well-being and personal growth through these ancient and modern ways.
Getting started can be intimidating and overwhelming, especially if you were not brought up around these ways. We can help!
Follow clear pathways with step-by-step examples. Learn from inspiring stories. Receive community support.
Engage with various learning opportunities to push your skills and meet your unique goals and life circumstances.
Join a "New Generation of Ethical Hunters".
We are a diverse community of educators, mentors and students here to help each other learn and grow.
Our mentors "walk the walk," strive to break down barriers and create an inclusive and welcoming space to learn.
Learning to hunt, forage and grow is a transformative journey.
One that cultivates:
Self-reliance and confidence
A deeper connection and greater knowledge of your food and the land
New relationships with like-minded people and the animals we share earth with
PRACTICAL LEARNING
A Newsletter to Help You Grow Your Nature Awareness and Self-Reliance
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The Hunter's Journey - Learn to Hunt Sustainably
Do you want to learn how to hunt for food sustainably? Or, are you a beginner looking to have more success? This is one of our most in-depth & robust learning communities. - Watch the trailer & Learn More -
The Mushroom Growers Course - Easy Ways to Grow Mushrooms at Home & Wild Fungi Identification
Learn to grow an abundance of nutritious food in a small space, indoors or out. We will teach you step-by-step how to grow using many different techniques and how to identify mushrooms in the wild. - Learn More -
Reading Nature's Language - Learn to Read Nature's Story in the Tracks, Signs & Sounds
This course and active community are about growing your natural knowledge through the ancient arts of tracking and awareness (ENROLMENT IS FULL - STAY TUNED).
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The Hunter's Journey Course Instructors
Featuring a diverse community of talented instructors. Meet a few of these individuals.
Caleb Musgrave
Canadian Bushcraft
A Mississauga Anishinaabe woodsman and hunter. Caleb is a generational hunter, learning his techniques and mindset from his relatives.
He is a trapper, birch bark canoe builder, traditional storyteller and craftsman.
Carolyn Knapper
Biologist, with a focus on fisheries
Carolyne explores remote areas of BC, AB and the Yukon to hunt, and fish.
She is currently studying to complete her MSc in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, focusing her thesis on Pacific Salmon species.
Sandy & Cal Reed
Original Wisdom School
For Sandy and Cal, hunting is not a sport or activity. It is a philosophy for living everyday life.
They love to teach and combine the skills of tracking, trailing, foraging, and hunting into a way of living with the earth.
More Course Instructors
Laura Gilmour - Wild Muskoka
The Mushroom Growers Course - Instructor
Laura is a professional wild forager. Along with selling sustainably harvested wild foods, she also teaches herbal medicine and mushroom foraging.
She lives on a permaculture inspired homestead growing food and medicine.
Chris Gilmour - Chris Outdoors
Lead Mentor and Educator - All Courses
Chris has spent his adult life as a devout student of the natural world.
He is a certified wildlife tracker, a hunter, a forager and an organic food and mushroom grower. Chris consults in sustainable land management and emergency preparedness.
Christina Yu
Learning Nature's Language - Instructor
Christina is a Level III Cybertracker and the first graduate of the Earth Tracks Tracking Apprenticeship.
An accomplished instructor, she has taught for the Canadian Armed Forces, Northern Karate Schools, Canadian Bushcraft and Chris Outdoors.
Course Participants & Community Members
Professionally, this course contributed to my ability to run outdoor education programs. Personally, learning to read the landscape has been incredible.
I notice patterns I never would have before. Chris is a talented educator who cultivates a warm and thoughtful learning community.
Emily Beaton, Nature's Language
I wasn't raised in a hunting family. This program filled in many gaps for me, and gave me some amazing tools to progress. What they are sharing is essential.
This is some high level teaching, presented in a really accessible and engaging way.
Steve Leckman, the Hunter's Journey
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