Bushcraft: Introduction to Firemaking

🌻 EVENT DETAILS:

Have you ever been in a heated debate with your friends about how to start the campfire, which way is “right,” or how to revive it once the flames die down? Come on down to the farm to learn how to start a fire in three different ways, the strengths and shortcomings of each approach, and important techniques for keeping your campfire alive! This beginning bushcraft class is a great way to prepare yourself for a thru-hike, trip out to the coast, or be better prepared for a survival situation.

🌞 This event will take outdoors at Kindness Farm.

🌲$30 suggested

Pay what you can. No one turned away.

🍄 Please get your tickets here before the event! This really helps us with logistics and preparing for the event.

🚙 PARKING

Please park on the farm side of the street anywhere up or down the street. Do NOT park on the grass across the street from the farm (you will see "No Parking" signs). This is important for safety vehicles to pass through. We reserve 2 driveway parking spots (in the gravel, on the right) for folks with accessibility needs.

🌼 ACCESSIBILTY INFORMATION

Venue is not certified ADA accessible. The farm's bathroom is not technically ADA accessible, but has been used by folks with wheelchairs. The majority of the farm itself is accessible, though not all parts are (we have some narrow pathways). Note that we use woodchips for the majority of our pathways.

🐝 COVID-19 & Other Illness:

If you’re feeling unwell, we kindly ask that you rest at home and join us another time. Masks are not required for this gathering, but you are encouraged to mask or distance in whatever way feels right for you.

🌷 ABOUT KAWIKA

Kawika Kalama is a multiracial māhū interdisciplinary teaching artist, scholar, weaver, poet, photographer, diviner, healer, and cultivator of land. They were born and raised in Troth Yeddha’ and Tth'eetoo' (Fairbanks, Alaska) by parents deeply rooted in subsistence, reverence for land, and traditional ways of being. Kalama’s work weaves place-based arts education, reindigenization, and cross-cultural community belonging into tangible, embodied experiences that collectively explore the sacred.

Kawika’s lineages hail from Cebu, Kaua’i, Guangdong, the Pretanic Isles, Norway, and France. They are eternally grateful for all the elders, culture bearers, and ancestors who laid the foundation for all they practice.