Survival 3 - Advanced Earth Living | Maine Primitive

Survival 3: Advanced Earth Living

Overview
This is where it all comes together. Survival 3 integrates every core skill—shelter, fire, food, tools, movement—into a seamless, sustainable off-grid practice. You’ll construct seasonal structures, transport fire, use cob and thatch, build water systems, and engage in ancestral hunting techniques. Designed for those seeking advanced readiness and deep personal challenge. Learn from Michael Douglas, who has lived this knowledge and now shares it through immersive mentorship.

$150 - 1 Day - A Glimpse into Seasonal Living

This single-day course is a rapid but immersive taste of what it means to live seasonally and smart—adapting shelter, movement, and water strategies to the long game of life outdoors.

Topics Include

• Seasonal shelters: bush camps, earth lodges, grass huts

• Planning migratory routes: resources, hazards, and timing

• Long-term water management systems

• Building a self-reliant mindset for extended wilderness stays

Takeaway

You’ll walk away with practical vision: not just how to survive a night, but how to plan and live for seasons to come.

$300 - 2 Days - Tools for the Journey

This weekend, we look at the skills and materials that let humans move across continents with nothing but knowledge and their hands. You’ll make tools, move fire, and build with what surrounds you.

Topics Include

• Advanced shelter systems: design for migration, stealth, and weather

• Rocket stoves: efficient fire for long-term use

• Carrying fire: preserving flame across miles

• Primitive adhesives: resin-based glues from pine, sap, and stone

• Cob basics and natural building techniques

• Water system design: purification, flow, and storage

Takeaway

These are the skills of people who once lived free and untethered across wild lands. You'll leave with a new relationship to heat, movement, and making.

$750 - 5 Days - Total Immersion in Off-Grid Living

This is the challenge and the craft. Over five full days, you’ll live the skills—constructing seasonal shelters, crafting tools, building water systems, and facing a real off-grid survival scenario. It’s not about testing your limits; it’s about expanding them.

Topics Include

• Bush camps, cob lodges, thatch roofs, cattail mats, and loom weaving

• Fire mastery: rocket stoves, fire preservation, advanced resin glues

• Water purification and large-scale storage

• Off-grid living systems audit: shelter, fire, safety, hygiene

• Use of grasses and natural materials for construction and utility

• Survival challenge: living with the skills, off-grid, in real time

• Atlatl and sling hunting: embodying ancestral patterns

• Community through action: shared meals, shared efforts, shared fire

Takeaways

You’ll leave more than skilled—you’ll leave transformed. This is advanced earth living: where ancestral knowledge, modern awareness, and personal growth come together in one immersive experience.