
The 15th Annual Bushskills Caribbean Rendezvous 2020!
Some call them outdoor home-steading skills. Primitive skills. Or just skills.
We call them BUSH SKILLS!
Visit the farm for four days of workshops in natural crafts, survival techniques, wild crafting, organic farming, and outdoor cooking with farm fresh foods. Island visitors and residents are welcome one and all! Each day has a theme that builds up to Sunday's Bush Chef Cookout event (read more below). Camp out or stay in a cabana to enjoy the nightly fire, or just come for the daily workshops and farm fresh and local cuisine lunches. (see below for details)
Some call them outdoor home-steading skills. Primitive skills. Or just skills.
We call them BUSH SKILLS!
Visit the farm for four days of workshops in natural crafts, survival techniques, wild crafting, organic farming, and outdoor cooking with farm fresh foods. Island visitors and residents are welcome one and all! Each day has a theme that builds up to Sunday's Bush Chef Cookout event (read more below). Camp out or stay in a cabana to enjoy the nightly fire, or just come for the daily workshops and farm fresh and local cuisine lunches. (see below for details)
2020 Bush Skills Schedule
(subject to change)
THEME SCHEDULES Featuring expert instructors from R2R, Earth Skills Rendezvous, Mt. Victory Camp/Tom Brown Tracker School and others...

DAY 1: Primitive Survival Skills: The basics of tropical living - fire, shelter, water, fibers
Thursday, March 5
Instructors: Snowbear, Nate Olive (fire making), others TBA
w/ special guests, St. Croix's Complex High School Environmental Science Students!
Thursday, March 5
Instructors: Snowbear, Nate Olive (fire making), others TBA
w/ special guests, St. Croix's Complex High School Environmental Science Students!

DAY 2: Herbs and Trees: Medicines, herbalism, and wildcrafting
Friday, March 6
Instructors: Snowbear, Nate Olive (fire making), others TBA
w/ special guests, St. Croix's Complex High School Environmental Science Students!
Friday, March 6
Instructors: Snowbear, Nate Olive (fire making), others TBA
w/ special guests, St. Croix's Complex High School Environmental Science Students!

DAY 3: Hunting, Gathering, & Bamboo! Hunting tools, primitive hunting tools, gathering from wild plants and cultivated plants, and Bamboo kitchen crafts
Saturday, March 7
Instructors: Snowbear, Nate Olive (bamboo), others TBA
Saturday, March 7
Instructors: Snowbear, Nate Olive (bamboo), others TBA

DAY 4: "Bush Chef" Food Day: How to harvest and prepare an all-natural island feast - an all-day bush cook out!!
Sunday, March 8 I
Instructors: Snowbear, Nate Olive, Ruth, others TBA & Special Guest Chefs
Sunday, March 8 I
Instructors: Snowbear, Nate Olive, Ruth, others TBA & Special Guest Chefs
Daily Timeline 9am-4pm daily w/lunch , evening activities for campers w/dinners & breakfasts
Sign-in begins at 8:30 a.m. each morning, with a lunch sign-in also available for participants who want to take afternoon sessions only.
We gather in the outdoor classroom for a beginning circle at 9:00 a.m.
Past classes have included . . .
Bring:
Your favorite carving knife (we will have some for use and for sale), water bottle, clothes that can get dirty, folding chair (optional)
Cost:
Full program package (includes camping, 8 classes, and 3 meals per day, for all four days except Thurs breakfat and Sunday dinner): $225, RSVP
Daily rate (year-round VI residents): $45 per day, lunch is included, register upon entry, please RSVP
Fun and learning for all ages! Come one day or all.
Camping is included in four day pass and cabanas still available.
Sign up!
Questions?
See you here!
We gather in the outdoor classroom for a beginning circle at 9:00 a.m.
Past classes have included . . .
- Stone Tools, Flint-knapping
- Organic food production
- Tree Fibers and Food
- Fire by Friction
- Tropical fruit tree care
- Forest Foraging
- Spears & Nets for Fishing
- Hide Tanning Demonstration
- Herbal Healing
- Calabash Craft
- Wild Edible Plants
- Indigenous root crop planting and other ancient agriculture techniques
- Primitive Cookery
- Tracking
- Primitive Shelter building
Bring:
Your favorite carving knife (we will have some for use and for sale), water bottle, clothes that can get dirty, folding chair (optional)
Cost:
Full program package (includes camping, 8 classes, and 3 meals per day, for all four days except Thurs breakfat and Sunday dinner): $225, RSVP
Daily rate (year-round VI residents): $45 per day, lunch is included, register upon entry, please RSVP
Fun and learning for all ages! Come one day or all.
Camping is included in four day pass and cabanas still available.
Sign up!
Questions?
See you here!