About

Located across Alberta, hosting various educational workshops and events with a focus on the more traditional and sustainable skills movement, including; traditional hide tanning, food preservation, whole animal use, butchery, homesteading and community building opportunities.

About Us

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Workshops & Events

Come spend a weekend in an immersive workshop experience or choose just a day class to get your inspiration flowing.

Choose from multiple dates for each event listing. New Locations coming soon.

Events Calendar

Join Us

Do you have a traditional skill that you are passionate about and would like to share knowledge with others?

We can build stronger foundations if we share and learn from each other in hard times. Your gift of knowledge can change the world.

Apply as an Instructor

Coming Up Next

Traditional Tanning Hair On Large Hides (waitlist)
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from sheepskins to elk rugs, this start to finish full instructional weekend will guide you though each step in the process of traditional brain tanning with hands on and fully interactive experience. Guided by Cher Reynen of Wildfibre Organic Tannery TM. / Prairie Rose Sustainable Skills Inc.
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RSVP Baby Moccasins Class (waitlist)
Time is TBD
Niton Junction
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Niton Junction, Niton Junction, AB T0E 1S0, Canada
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Niton Junction, Niton Junction, AB T0E 1S0, Canada
Traditional leather baby mocs! this start to finish full instructional class will guide you through each step in the process of making leather baby moccasins.
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RSVP Live Lambing Clinic (waitlist)
Time is TBD
Sangudo
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Sangudo, Sangudo, AB, Canada
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Sangudo, Sangudo, AB, Canada
Come out for a day or night, at Frostad Farms, near Sangudo, AB, and participate in some live lambing. Learn in depth how to deliver lambs, the labor process, special health requirements of ewes and lambs, proper birthing and repositioning technique and how to avoid common mistakes.
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RSVP Drum Making Class (waitlist)
Time is TBD
Niton Junction
Time is TBD
Niton Junction, Niton Junction, AB T0E 1S0, Canada
Time is TBD
Niton Junction, Niton Junction, AB T0E 1S0, Canada
from rawhide to drum, this start to finish full instructional class will guide you through each step in the process of making rawhide and rawhide drums.
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