Koviashuvik Local Living School, LLC

Koviashuvik Local Living School, LLC Koviashuvik is a small school that teaches how to live with, use, and be supported by our local land Please see our class schedule for details.

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WHAT WE OFFER
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FAMILY SUSTAINABILITY STAY
An educational vacation for all ages. For families that want to: provide for more of their basic needs, learn low-tech, low-cost ways to simplify life, or just do meaningful activities outdoors. TRADITIONAL FOLK ARTS AND INDIGENOUS CRAFT CLASSES
One- to two-day classes which focus on a specific skill such as brown ash bask

etry, moccasin sewing, or hide tanning. Classes include delicious meals made from local food. SCHOOL PROGRAMS
From an hour to a day, on-site or in the classroom, these programs are designed to get students excited about the gifts of the earth while teaching about sustainability, wilderness crafts, and natural history. Programs may involve an interactive show-and-tell, building shelters in the woods, grinding cornmeal, starting a fire with the bow drill, local foods, brewing wild tea, making string from plant fiber, carving a spoon, and more. HOMESCHOOL PROGRAMS
These monthly classes share with kids and their families, earth-based activities that connect people to the land throughout the year. Each class incorporates song, stories, a local wild or domestic food, and a craft or skill. Ultimately, we strive to create a “community in the woods” in which parents and students work and learn together. APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
Apprentices live at Koviashuvik for an extended period of time during which they are involved with all the elements of this life. Apprentices learn to cook with wood, build with stone, get water from the spring, tend the garden, gather wild edibles in season, and craft useful everyday items such as a pack- basket, knife, or moccasins. Apprentices attend any Koviashuvik classes that take place during their stay. In exchange for learning, apprentices work several days each week on whatever projects we are doing. Often the work and learning blend together. We welcome people of all skill levels and ages.


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2013 CLASS SCHEDULE
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All classes held at Koviashuvik. Local organic meals will be provided for full day or overnight classes. CANOE PADDLE MAKING
You will carve a traditionally shaped Maine Guide Paddle. In between woodworking you will experience life at Koviashuvik with home-grown food, wall tent with wood stove accommodations, open fire cooking, stories and songs. (No prior woodworking experience necessary.) Date: April 20th and 21st
Time:9am Sat- 2pm Sunday
Cost: $195
 
HOMEMADE SPOONS
We will use coals to hollow the spoons, then a sharp knife to carve the handles. You will depart with your own beautiful wooden spoon and the skills to make many more. Date: Saturday, April 27th
Time: 9-12 pm
Cost: $15

ROCKET STOVE BUILDING
Rocket stoves are small wood-burning stoves that give a tremendous amount of heat for cooking while using very little wood. In this class you will make your own portable rocket stove from large-sized coffee cans. Date: Sunday May 5th
Time:2-5pm
Cost: $35

DON'T WAIT FOR LETTUCE! (INTRO TO WILD GREENS)
We will identify and gather several leafy greens, prepare a big salad and enjoy a simple meal of salad and local bread. (For a more in-depth wild edibles class see “Wild Greens for the Common Table.”)
Date: Friday, May 10th
Time: 4-6: 30
Cost: $20 (includes supper)

WILD GREENS FOR THE COMMON TABLE
Learn about amazing local plants that will grace your table, feed your family, and connect your spirit to the springtime. The class culminates with open fire cooking and a three-course “wild” lunch. Plants are taught with an emphasis on observation skills that will enable you to continue gathering on your own. Date: Saturday, May 18th
Time: 9:30am-2pm
Cost: $45

ICE CREAM AND OPEN HOUSE
There will be live music, delicious home-made ice cream (using ice from the ice house), and tours of the school grounds: stone root cellar, vegetable gardens, nut orchard, edible landscaping, earth-bermed greenhouse, rainwater collection systems, solar dehydrator, solar hot water system, alternative cooking technologies, composting toilet, log cabin, and ice house. Date: Saturday, May 25th
Time: come anytime 10am-2pm, tours at 10:30am and 12:30pm
Cost: Free

HAND TOOL SHARPENING
Learn all about how to sharpen edge tools, including chisels, drawknives, axes, block planes, knives, etc. Bring one of your own whittling or kitchen knives to practice on. Date: Friday, May 31st
Time: 4-6pm
Cost: $15

DEERSKINS INTO LEATHER
Come learn, through doing, about all the steps and stages that transform a raw hide into soft, fuzzy, smoked buckskin. It’s easier than you think! Date: Saturday, June 15th
Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $55

MOCCASIN-MAKING
You will stitch a pair of traditional moccasins with hand-tanned leather, then, if you want, coat the bottom with a mixture of tire shavings and rubber glue that will extend the life and versatility of your moccasins. Participants leave with their own needle, thread and awl for finishing details and future projects. Date: Saturday, June 29th
Time: 9am-5pm
Cost: $85 + $15 optional rubber coating
 
HUMANURE 101: MAKE A COMPOSTING TOILET
This class answers your questions about composting, humanure and otherwise, and provides you with a set-up to get started at home. Participants learn basic carpentry and build their own simple and beatuiful wooden toilet from local hardwoods. The toilet may be used indoors or out with no odor and is emptied into a thermophilic compost pile. We will also tour the composting systems of Koviashuvik and build a compost pile together. Participants leave with their own toilet and a copy of “The Humanure Handbook” a 300 page treatise on the subject! Date: Saturday, July 13th
Time: 10am-3pm
Cost: $65

WOODSWORK, WILDCRAFT AND TREE I.D. In this class we work on thinning the forest for its sake and ours. The morning will be spent in the woods learning to identify the local trees and understand their specific roles in the forest. We will cut some trees with hand tools to improve the health of the stand, then spend the afternoon making baskets from the bark of the trees we thinned. Date: Saturday, July 20th
Time: 9am- 4:30pm
Cost: $55

FAMILY SUSTAINABILITY STAY
If you and your family have a desire to simplify life, provide for some of your basic needs, or strengthen your connection with the earth this experience is a great place to start! For three days you will enter into a ready-made sustainable living system. We will work with you each day on skills of your choice. You may make your own rocket stove, build a compost pile or make solar fruit leather. Your kids might make a bow and arrow, fire with friction, or string from tree bark. Whatever activities you choose you will certainly harvest food from the garden, cook on a fire, carve spoons and eat with them, grind grain and bake bread, use a composting toilet, take a solar shower, and sleep soundly after a good day of conscious living. There will also be time to explore local hiking options and swimming holes, and to just be as a family. Accommodations include a spacious white canvas wall tent with wood floor and composting toilet. We are also able to host 2 families at a time for a reduced price if families are willing to share the sleeping space. Dates: August 2nd - 4th, August 9th- 11th, August 23rd- 25th (Please inquire about additional dates to meet the needs of your family.) Time: 10:30 am Friday-Sunday afternoon
Cost: $750 for single family, $550 per family for 2 families
  

FERMENTATION FIESTA - KIMCHI, SAUERKRAUT, PICKLES AND DILLY BEANS
The Old World food storage method of lacto-fermentation is extremely simple, does not involve vinegar or canning, and provides a food that is delicious and alive with all its nutrients. We begin with kimchi and sauerkraut, then progress into pickles and dilly beans. You’ll get to taste- test finished ferments and make your own to take home. All ingredients will be provided, however you are also welcome to bring your own cucumbers/green beans and large jars to make a batch of your own pickles! Date: Friday August 17th
Time: 2-6pm
Cost: $25




ACORNS INTO FLOUR
Acorns- the amazing, bountiful, ancient staple of humanity! It just takes a little processing to transform acorns into a truly delicious staple that could have a major role in transforming our diet, and culture. This is real food, we eat hundreds of pounds a year! Learn about harvesting, drying, shelling, leaching, and grinding acorns. We’ll end the day by baking some tasty acorn treats and sharing recipes. Date: Saturday, October 5th
Time: 10am-3pm
Cost: $35

PACKBASKET WEAVING WEEKEND
With a brown ash pack-basket you can carry the world! During this weekend you will weave a whole packbasket, learn the art of “pounding ash” to make the basket material, and enjoy the fall harvest foods at every meal. Participants leave with their own packbaskets on their backs! Date: October 12th-13th
Time: 9:30 am Saturday to 4pm Sunday
Cost: $245

Exciting News!: Koviashuvik has transformed into Maine Local Living School, a non-profit that will be offering the Livin...
02/03/2021

Exciting News!: Koviashuvik has transformed into Maine Local Living School, a non-profit that will be offering the Living In Maine Semester for junior year high school students. We have a new website and a new page. We hope you'll continue along with us on this new journey. https://www.mainelocalliving.org/

09/19/2020

Rest in peace, Justice Ginsberg. Thank you so much.

EDIT: It is true that some people cannot wear masks and we apologize for any offense. Please be assured that we definite...
07/23/2020

EDIT: It is true that some people cannot wear masks and we apologize for any offense. Please be assured that we definitely don't mean you!
We're giving away these bumper stickers, just PM your address and tell us how many you can use!

Check out this event, a family-oriented online festival organized by a family we have worked with several times. We'll b...
06/02/2020

Check out this event, a family-oriented online festival organized by a family we have worked with several times. We'll be teaching how to make homemade fruit leather at 10am today, and there are many other wonderful offerings from other teachers and organizations through the week:

NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY**

Twig had her baby two weeks ago. "Lincoln" is discovering his mountain goat genes.
05/04/2020

Twig had her baby two weeks ago. "Lincoln" is discovering his mountain goat genes.

Sprouting Forest Seeds!Dear Friends,Some thoughts about the what and the why of our video project:First, we extend our h...
04/27/2020

Sprouting Forest Seeds!

Dear Friends,

Some thoughts about the what and the why of our video project:

First, we extend our hearts to you in whatever hardship and struggle the pandemic has brought. Peace and health be with you. As the world around us is reshaped by the presence of Covid-19, we at Koviashuvik have been asking ourselves how to be most of service during this crisis. We know that all of you with children find yourselves home with your kids everyday, all day, and no prospect of play-dates or trips to the library in sight!

As outdoor educators, we realized that one thing that would help many families at this moment in time would be to share activities and skills that get us outside, connecting with and learning from, the living earth. We are creating a series of short videos to help do that!

While we all struggle to make sense of the new normal, the earth is going about her glorious transition from winter to spring. Today the sap is flowing in the maples, two weeks from now pure sap water will be flowing from the birch. Around that time, the first coltsfoot flowers will bloom and we can gather them and add their tasty mineral goodness to salads. We have heard geese overhead and the basswood buds are swelling, offering a tasty nibble. There are twigs in the forest to be gathered, fires to be made and adventures to be had roasting apples outside, or maybe making bread-on-a-stick. If you live in oak country, last fall’s abundance of acorn is likely still on the ground and ready for a spring harvesting and then the engaging work of transforming bitter acorn into sweet pancakes.

We hope that the videos are useful right now, in this moment that we need activities to do with our children. We also believe that their value extends beyond crisis mitigation. The skills are a means to food, medicine, fiber, and the joy and pride that come from practices of self-reliance. In sum, these films represent one small facet of the great turning that is so needed to bring the human community back into alignment with the earth community

We hope you enjoy the videos, please use them as a catalyst and a means to your earth-based adventures, not as an end. Feel free to share them, and please, give us a call, send an email, ask questions, and share your experiences.

In solidarity with you and all those envisioning a more beautiful world,

The Knapp Family.

Dear Friends, Some thoughts about the what and the why of our video project: First, we extend our hearts to you in whatever hardship and struggle the pandemi...

04/01/2020

Dear Friends,

Some thoughts about the what and the why of our video project:

First, we extend our hearts to you in whatever hardship and struggle the pandemic has brought. Peace and health be with you. As the world around us is reshaped by the presence of Covid-19, we at Koviashuvik have been asking ourselves how to be most of service during this crisis. We know that all of you with children find yourselves home with your kids everyday, all day, and no prospect of play-dates or trips to the library in sight!

As outdoor educators, we realized that one thing that would help many families at this moment in time would be to share activities and skills that get us outside, connecting with and learning from, the living earth. We are creating a series of short videos to help do that!

While we all struggle to make sense of the new normal, the earth is going about her glorious transition from winter to spring. Today the sap is flowing in the maples, two weeks from now pure sap water will be flowing from the birch. Around that time, the first coltsfoot flowers will bloom and we can gather them and add their tasty mineral goodness to salads. We have heard geese overhead and the basswood buds are swelling, offering a tasty nibble. There are twigs in the forest to be gathered, fires to be made and adventures to be had roasting apples outside, or maybe making bread-on-a-stick. If you live in oak country, last fall’s abundance of acorn is likely still on the ground and ready for a spring harvesting and then the engaging work of transforming bitter acorn into sweet pancakes.

We hope that the videos are useful right now, in this moment that we need activities to do with our children. We also believe that their value extends beyond crisis mitigation. The skills are a means to food, medicine, fiber, and the joy and pride that come from practices of self-reliance. In sum, these films represent one small facet of the great turning that is so needed to bring the human community back into alignment with the earth community

We hope you enjoy the videos, please use them as a catalyst and a means to your earth-based adventures, not as an end. Feel free to share them, and please, give us a call, send an email, ask questions, and share your experiences.

In solidarity with you and all those envisioning a more beautiful world,

The Knapp Family.

After lots of technical difficulty, we have another video on outdoor activities you can do with your kids! Making tea wi...
03/26/2020

After lots of technical difficulty, we have another video on outdoor activities you can do with your kids! Making tea with White Pine. Here is the Youtube link, we are still getting it posted on Facebook:

Dear Friends, Some thoughts about the what and the why of our multi-video project: First, we extend our hearts to you in whatever hardship and struggle the p...

03/22/2020

Dear Friends,

Below are some thoughts about the what and the why of our video project (see the first video on tapping maple without any special tools posted on our page.)

First, we extend our hearts to you in whatever hardship and struggle the pandemic has brought. Peace and health be with you. As the world around us is reshaped by the presence of Covid-19, we at Koviashuvik have been asking ourselves how to be most of service during this crisis. We know that all of you with children find yourselves home with your kids everyday, all day, and no prospect of play-dates or trips to the library in sight!

As outdoor educators, we realized that one thing that would help many families at this moment in time would be to share activities and skills that get us outside, connecting with and learning from, the living earth. We are creating a series of short videos to help do that!

While we all struggle to make sense of the new normal, the earth is going about her glorious transition from winter to spring. Today the sap is flowing in the maples, two weeks from now pure sap water will be flowing from the birch. Around that time, the first coltsfoot flowers will bloom and we can gather them and add their tasty mineral goodness to salads. We have heard geese overhead and the basswood buds are swelling, offering a tasty nibble. There are twigs in the forest to be gathered, fires to be made and adventures to be had roasting apples outside, or maybe making bread-on-a-stick. If you live in oak country, last fall’s abundance of acorn is likely still on the ground and ready for a spring harvesting and then the engaging work of transforming bitter acorn into sweet pancakes.

We hope that the videos are useful right now, in this moment that we need activities to do with our children. We also believe that their value extends beyond crisis mitigation. The skills are a means to food, medicine, fiber, and the joy and pride that come from practices of self-reliance. In sum, these films represent one small facet of the great turning that is so needed to bring the human community back into alignment with the earth community

We hope you enjoy the videos, please use them as a catalyst and a means to your earth-based adventures, not as an end. Feel free to share them, and please, give us a call, send an email, ask questions, and share your experiences.

In solidarity with you and all those envisioning a more beautiful world,

The Knapp Family.

03/21/2020

Easy Maple Tree Tapping for Kids- No Special Tools Needed!

Dear Friends,
Some thoughts about the what and the why of our multi-video family activities project:

First, we extend our hearts to you in whatever hardship and struggle the pandemic has brought. Peace and health be with you. As the world around us is reshaped by the presence of Covid-19, we at Koviashuvik have been asking ourselves how to be most of service during this crisis. We know that all of you with children find yourselves home with your kids everyday, all day, and no prospect of play-dates or trips to the library in sight!

As outdoor educators, we realized that one thing that would help many families at this moment in time would be to share activities and skills that get us outside, connecting with and learning from, the living earth. We are creating a series of short videos to help do that!

While we all struggle to make sense of the new normal, the earth is going about her glorious transition from winter to spring. Today the sap is flowing in the maples, two weeks from now pure sap water will be flowing from the birch. Around that time, the first coltsfoot flowers will bloom and we can gather them and add their tasty mineral goodness to salads. We have heard geese overhead and the basswood buds are swelling, offering a tasty nibble. There are twigs in the forest to be gathered, fires to be made and adventures to be had roasting apples outside, or maybe making bread-on-a-stick. If you live in oak country, last fall’s abundance of acorn is likely still on the ground and ready for a spring harvesting and then the engaging work of transforming bitter acorn into sweet pancakes.

We hope that the videos are useful right now, in this moment that we need activities to do with our children. We also believe that their value extends beyond crisis mitigation. The skills are a means to food, medicine, fiber, and the joy and pride that come from practices of self-reliance. In sum, these films represent one small facet of the great turning that is so needed to bring the human community back into alignment with the earth community

We hope you enjoy the videos, please use them as a catalyst and a means to your earth-based adventures, not as an end. Feel free to share them, and please, give us a call, send an email, ask questions, and share your experiences.

In solidarity with you and all those envisioning a more beautiful world,

The Knapp Family.

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