REGISTER by MONDAY, OCTOBER 19th  

We've designed this course so you leave with:

✷A steady confidence that you can meet your own needs on the Earth - with or without the industrial systems around you.

✷Calm in the face of change and the unexpected. When the weather turns or a plan falls apart, you'll know how to pause, read the situation and respond with what you have.

✷You'll learn what comes first when it matters, make decisions in real conditions, and stay steady enough to trust yourself.

✷A felt sense of belonging in the landscape, knowing it as more than scenery.

More takeaways:

𐫰 A night warm and dry in a camp you built yourself

𐫰 The know-how to light a fire without matches 

𐫰 A handful of edible and medicinal plants you can recognize, harvest ethically and prepare 

𐫰 At least two knots for shelter, and plenty more 

𐫰 A sit spot practice and the beginnings of bird language 

✓ 15% off our 4-Day Mentor Training in March 2027

This is for you if you've been watching other people do this and telling yourself you'll learn it someday. This is where it starts.

+ You want real skills underneath the gear

+ You feel called to guide others in nature connection and want your first real step

+ You're a parent or educator who wants to pass these skills on & keep them alive

+ You're a group of friends wanting to find out what you're capable of together.

No experience needed, and experienced folks will find plenty to deepen into.You'll need to be able to walk a few kilometers on uneven ground.

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🔥 Imagine, it's Saturday night, and the October chill settles in. You light a fire without a match, and are eating wild plants you picked that afternoon. You lie into a thick bed you made from the forest. Your shelter keeps you warm and dry.

For most of human history, everyone knew how to do this. Today, most of us never learn. This weekend is where you start.

Over two nights and 25 hectares in the oaks and fields of Alentejo, your challenge is to meet the survival needs shared by every human who has ever lived, from our ancestors until today: stay warm, make fire, find & prepare wild food. You'll learn by doing with mentors beside you. Along the way we'll listen to birds, cook together, and circle around the evening fire with story and song.

Testimonial: 

"We've learned a lot of different skills from making fire to harvesting and filtering water. Especially this sense of simplicity and wholeness that you can experience when you are living so closely with the elements. When you have the fire, the sky with stars and fresh air to breathe. Like letting go of the comforts of modern life, stepping into that discomfort and feeling that edge and everything that comes up with it. But at the same time feeling a very safe container in which to explore that edge and to go deeper and to be more self-reliant."
– Bart, Kambium•Earth program participant 2025

"When I met Josh at his deep nature connection course, I finally understood how smart is nature… I feel like nature chooses some incredible humans who have the ability to open the doors to step into that beautiful world that most people forget about or are detached from. Josh is one of these incredible mentors “hired” by the smart nature! Josh’s knowledge & skills let you experience a fantastic connection with nature but it’s his charisma, kindness and storytelling mastery that will let you make forever memories. I will always be grateful for Josh’s guidance and care for all of us in those woods. Every little step there with him was a major step in the direction of consciousness and elevation."
— Pat Ambrosetti, Wilderness Program Participant

About your guides

Joshua Glass Joshua Glass is a nature connection mentor working with families, youth, and adults. Through ancestral skills and wilderness survival practices like fire, shelter, foraging, and tracking, he helps people learn a place well enough to love and care for it. In addition to working with educators and collectives, he mentors youth and guides rites of passage with Twin Eagles Wilderness School and has apprenticed with Maine Primitive (Maine), practicing the 8-Shields Cultural Mentoring model. He studied social design and community building at Zuyd University in the Netherlands and in 2024, co-founded Kambium•Earth-Based Learning in Portugal.

Melina Feuvrier-Etevenard, co-founder of Kambium•Earth, is a regenerative farmer and permaculture practitioner. She thrives in crafting, cooking, and the art of wilderness awareness. She's cultivated her skills in co-living collectives and regenerative farms throughout Europe. Driven by a passion for nurturing both healthy ecosystems and flourishing cultures, Melina works with youth and adults in pedagogical farms and nature-based learning camps. Melina uses wild-foraged edible plants to create vitality-rich, nutritionally balanced and exceptionally delicious meals. She is currently training as a grief and death doula with Sacred Circle CIC.

The weekend - 50 hours

Friday afternoon: 1 PM start. Orientation & Fire Craft
Saturday: Learn the Sacred Order of Survival
Sunday: 3 PM Final skils block, closing & reflections

Shelter: You'll find out why the cold ground is more dangerous than the open sky, learn principles of shelter, build a mattress for warmth & comfort, learn essential knots for any tarp.

Fire: You'll harvest and prepare good tinder and wood, build a fire that catches quickly & stays lit, and light it without matches.

Food: Forage wild food. We'll supplement our meals with whatever we can gather from the local species and we'll cook what we gather together.

Throughout, we'll practice bird language, tracking, & the ways our ancestors walked, listened, and scanned their landscape.

Good to know

🌦️ Weather: Cold and rain is possible. We'll send a full packing list after you register.

⛑️ Safety: An instructor with Wilderness First Aid certification is always present.

🥬 Food: All meals are included, made from foraged and garden-grown ingredients: high quality, nutritionally balanced, and cooked together. Tell us about dietary needs at checkout and we'll accommodate most of them.

🏕️ Accommodation: We camp for the whole program. Friday night you sleep in your own tent or tarp setup. Please bring a sleeping bag, a mat, and a tarp (around 3x3m if you have one). We have a few spares. If you'd like to arrive early or stay after, you can book with the venue here.

📋 After you register: We'll send everything you need to prepare, pack, and arrive easily.

💰 Pricing: Choose the ticket that fits your financial reality. If money is still what's stopping you, email us and tell us your situation.

📩 Contact: info@kambium.earth or t.me/kambiumearth on Telegram

Looking to go further?

If this weekend lights something up for you, come to our 4-Day Mentor Training in March 2027. Everyone who joins Survival Foundations gets 15% off.