About
Earth Native Wilderness School offers hands-on classes and courses that include Wilderness Survival, Wilderness Survival 101, Wilderness Survival Skills, and Wilderness Bushcraft. Students take part in activities such as Bushcraft Skills, Backcountry Navigation, Campfire Skills, Knife Carving & Safety, Primitive Projectiles, and More than S'mores. The program also includes Wildlife Tracking and Animal Behavior Studies, Bird Language, Ethnobotany – the study of edible, medicinal, and useful plants, as well as Native Plant Identification and Use, Sustainable Living, and Navigation Awareness. Additional classes focus on ancestral and traditional crafts like Natural Clay Pottery, Natural Basketry, Basket Making, Natural Building, Natural Paints & Pigments, Traditional Bow and Arrow Making, Hand crafting wooden bow and arrows the old way, Arrow Making, Flintknapping, Flint Knapping, and Butchering & Animal Processing, along with a Barnyard Adventure option.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours Monday–Friday 9am–4pm; classes and courses range from one day to nine months in length
Founded in 2011 in Austin, TX, Earth Native Wilderness School describes itself as an outdoor school for all and offers courses for adults and kids of all ages. The school states that it offers unique, fun, and informative courses that enliven and lead students down a path of discovery and greater self-reliance, and that it strives to be a bridge for people and communities to learn life-enhancing skills and develop connection in a community setting. Earth Native Wilderness School notes that it offers courses for kids and adults in Bastrop and Austin and that it is not a licensed child care facility and is not required to be licensed by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission due to the type and scope of its educational programming. The campus is only open when a class is happening, tours and visits are not available, and the school notes that it has two campus entrances that are not connected by road and that both Bilbrook and Woodview Lane are privately maintained dirt roads with a requested maximum driving speed of 10 MPH.
Last updated January 25, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours Monday–Friday 9am–4pm; classes and courses range from one day to nine months in length
Founded in 2011 in Austin, TX, Earth Native Wilderness School describes itself as an outdoor school for all and offers courses for adults and kids of all ages. The school states that it offers unique, fun, and informative courses that enliven and lead students down a path of discovery and greater self-reliance, and that it strives to be a bridge for people and communities to learn life-enhancing skills and develop connection in a community setting. Earth Native Wilderness School notes that it offers courses for kids and adults in Bastrop and Austin and that it is not a licensed child care facility and is not required to be licensed by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission due to the type and scope of its educational programming. The campus is only open when a class is happening, tours and visits are not available, and the school notes that it has two campus entrances that are not connected by road and that both Bilbrook and Woodview Lane are privately maintained dirt roads with a requested maximum driving speed of 10 MPH.
Last updated January 25, 2026.
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