Maine Primitive
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https://linktr.ee/maineprimitive Founded by Naked and Afraid survivor Michael Douglas, Maine Primitive teaches ancestral skills, survival, and Earth Living.
We globally help people reconnect to land, instinct, and community through hands-on experience. The Maine Primitive Skills School is a wilderness survival school located on 23 wooded acres in Augusta, Maine. Our goal is to reconnect people to ancient technologies and to themselves. We teach primitive skills, survival skills, wilderness survival, modern survival, bushcraft, native awareness, wildli
It’s one thing to build a shelter on a sunny day; it’s another to trust it to keep you alive during a freezing rainstorm. That’s why we test our work directly in the field.
👉Step up your outdoor education and learn the physics of wilderness survival. Click the link to find a program that's right for you!
🔗https://www.maineprimitive.com/experiences-in-person
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Making a hunting bow
A common effective hunting tool for survival?
Tracking without your eyes?
The secret to survival shelter insulation isn’t just the depth—it’s the structure.
This deliberate packing mimics the nesting habits of local wildlife, turning loose forest floor materials into a solid, insulated wall of dead air space that traps your body heat.
👉Join the Earth Living Experience and discover how patience and skill build real survival confidence
🔗https://www.maineprimitive.com/experiences-in-person/p/maine-primitive-survival-2-earth-living
Not power, not luck, just practice. Welcome to the Fire Guild.
👉learn the skills, join the next training.
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06/09/2026
Foraging: Foods, Medicinals, and Utilities
June 27 – July 1
The Foraging Course begins soon. This is one of our most practical and immediately usable trainings. Over five days you will learn how to identify, harvest, and prepare edible and medicinal plants with confidence and accuracy. Students work directly with Michael Douglas, whose decades of field experience create a learning environment rooted in clarity, precision, and respect for the land.
Skills You Will Acquire
• Accurate field identification of wild foods and medicinals
• Safe differentiation from dangerous look-alikes
• Wild cooking and nutrient extraction
• Medicine making: salves, tinctures, teas, decoctions
• Bark, resin, and fiber extraction for tools and cordage
• Ethical harvesting and conservation-based foraging
• Processing methods for both immediate and long-term use
How This Course Benefits You
• A practical ability to gather food and medicine in the field
• Increased self-reliance and confidence in natural environments
• A grounded understanding of seasonal plant use and ecology
• Transferable skills for outdoor professionals, educators, and guides
• A deeper, more meaningful relationship with the land
If you want skills that enrich your daily life and deepen your sense of capability, this training is essential.
Delicious and plentiful but they don’t last long!
Learning fishing from the masters. In the company of Eagles.
Primitive doesn’t mean basic. It means profoundly simple, effective, and efficient.
The transition from basic survival to true "earth living" is all about removing dependencies. When you can successfully navigate your core needs—shelter, water, fire, and food—without synthetic shortcuts, your mindset changes. You stop reacting to the elements and start working alongside them.
👉Take the next step in your outdoor education. Tap the link to join
🔗https://www.maineprimitive.com/experiences-in-person/p/maine-primitive-survival-2-earth-living
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716 Church Hill Rd
Augusta, ME
04330
Opening Hours
| Monday | 8am - 8pm |
| Tuesday | 8am - 8pm |
| Wednesday | 8am - 8pm |
| Thursday | 8am - 8pm |
| Friday | 8am - 8pm |
| Saturday | 8am - 8pm |
| Sunday | 8am - 8pm |