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.
Wild Abundance
For ongoing classes please check out WildAbundance.net
Schedule
Here are last years schedules. The 2010 schedules will be posted around May:
Additional Information
- Directions (8 miles from Asheville)
- Equipment Checklist
- Weather
- Facilities
- For Purchase
- No dogs, please.
Registration
Registration for 2010 will officially open in January. If you want to register now please email us.
Prices
Full Admission: $100-$200 sliding scale, includes camping, classes, facilities access July 9-12
Day Pass: $30-60 sliding scale, includes classes
Early Access: $10 to camp the night of July 8th
Kids: Children 7 and under enter free. Full admission for kids 8-14 is $50-100 sliding scale. Day passes are $20-40.
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@charter.net
Please call 828-777-8777 after 9 or on weekends or 206-661-6550 anytime.
Special Thanks to Mellow Mushroom for providing food to our instructors.
Classes included:
- 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