Programs

Program Description:
"Wilderness Skills: Flint and Steel Fire Making" is an engaging hands-on program designed for adults looking to enhance their outdoor skills and connect with nature. Participants will learn the art of fire making with a 1 match challenge and will be introduced to flint and steel fire making techniques, while understanding what is needed from the winter woods to create a fire. Whether preparing for a camping trip, a wilderness adventure, or simply wishing to learn a valuable survival skill, this program promises a memorable and enriching experience. This class will take place outdoors.

Schedule:
• Saturday, January 25, 2025 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fee:
• $35

Location:
• Rocky Fork Metro Park Pavilion

*About the Instructor:
Sandy Reed is a Nature Program Assistant Coordinator for Healthy New Albany. She recently retired from 36 years of teaching science. She has a BA in Education and a MA in Gifted Education and is a certified Montessori middle school teacher. Sandy was recently recognized as a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow through National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions and traveled to Antarctica. She is also a certified Forest Therapy Guide and an instructor with Original Wisdom, a small organization that provides international adventure education programs in wildlife tracking, ecology, bushcraft and human culture. As an internationally certified wildlife tracker, she enjoys traveling into the African bush each summer to work on her wildlife tracking skills and teaches bushcraft skills with her husband in the United States and South Africa. She loves to travel, hike, fish, hunt, camp and introduce people to nature.