Firefly Gathering
Welcome
The Firefly Gathering is for people seeking to deepen and expand their connection with the natural world.
There will be over 100 classes available focusing on self-sufficiency and wilderness skills taught by over 40 masterful teachers from around the region and country.
It offers learning for adults and children, evening entertainment, and on-site camping.
Schedule
Additional Information
- Directions (8 miles from Asheville)
- Equipment Checklist
- No dogs, please.
- Weather
- Facilities
- For Purchase
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Registration
Pre-registration is highly recommended, tickets will likely be available for purchase at the gate
We Now Accept PayPal!
You can use PayPal to pay with your credit card, debit card, or checking account.
You don't need a PayPal account to do this
Simply go to PayPal and click on the Send Money link below the "Personal" tab at the top of the page.
Send your PayPal payment to FireflyGathering@charter.net.
Please include a note on the payment form saying how many adults and children will be attending and which days you plan to attend.
Prices
Full Admission: $75-150 sliding scale, includes camping, classes, facilities access July 9-12
Day Pass: $25-50 sliding scale, includes classes
Early Access: $5 to camp the night of July 8th
Kids: Children 7 and under enter free. Full admission for kids 8-14 is $40-80 sliding scale. Day passes are $15-30.
The organizers of Firefly believe that these skills should be accessible to as many as possible. We therefore offer a sliding scale providing low and flexible pricing. If you consider yourself very low income please pay the minimum required price. If you feel secure in your financial situation please place yourself in the sliding scale accordingly.
Transportation
For ride sharing, please search or post at rideboard.com using keyword "firefly".
Kids Program
An extensive kids program will take place during all class sessions. It will be staffed by teachers, work traders and parent volunteers.
Instructors
Instructor Websites:
Contact
www.fireflygathering.org
fireflygathering@yahoo.com
206-661-6550 or 828-777-8777 after 9 or on weekends.
Classes include:
- Archery
- Atl-atl making
- Bamboo utensils
- Basketry
- Basic car repair
- Beekeeping
- Bird calls and identification
- Blacksmithing
- Book making
- Bowmaking
- Breadmaking
- Brewing (meadmaking)
- Buckskin pouches
- Bullroarers
- Butchering
- Candle making
- Canning
- Clay Paints
- Cordage
- Copper Working
- Debris hut making
- Deer leg usage
- Diaper free parenting
- Drop spinning
- Drumming
- Felting
- Finger weaving
- Fire (bow drill, hand drill, flint and steel)
- Fire building
- Flintknapping
- Flute Making
- Herb walk
- Hide tanning
- Leatherworking
- Kudzu basketry
- Mushroom Hunting
- Moccasin making
- Net bags
- Pelt tanning
- Pigment paints
- Pine needle basketry
- Plant Propagation
- Pottery
- Primitive cooking
- Primitive instruments
- Quillwork
- Rivercane flutes
- Salve making
- Scouting and camoflauge
- Soapmaking
- Solar Energy for your Home
- Storytelling
- Tincture making
- Tracking
- Trapping (modern and primitive)
- Veggie oil conversions
- Weaving
- Wild woods walk
- Wilderness awareness
- Wilderness first aid
- Womens' herb walk
- Wood carving
Kids' classes may include:
- Awareness games
- Capture the flag
- Cooperative games
- Cordage
- Debris shelter building
- Pottery
- Scouting and camoflouge
- Spinning
- Tool safety