KENNEBEC JOURNAL • September 27, 2020
The mission of the Maine Primitive Skills School on Church Hill Road in Augusta is to teach and share outdoor education, nature literacy and field craft skills from its own wooded campus and a nearby, 4,800-acre wildlife management area, incorporating primitive skills, survival education and ancestral knowledge, among other things. In this pandemic year, during which many people are working to become more self-sufficient by cooking at home more and making bread, the students are experiencing a more basic level of self-sufficiency by finding what they need in nature rather than in aisles of a supermarket.