
About Rendezvous
The Longest Running Primitive Skills Gathering East of the Mississippi
Earthskills Rendezvous is a primitive skills gathering that happens twice a year in the Southeastern United States. The gathering is a week-long camping event where participants come for a day, weekend, or the whole week to learn ancient skills and experience a different pace of life.
Our focus is daily top quality instruction in dozens of ancestral and heritage primitive skills such as matchless fire making, foraging for wild edible and medicinal plants, stone tool creation and use, ancient weaponry and basket making, just to name a few. After a full day of hands on instruction, evening programs give you the opportunity to join in the revival of the great oral tradition of storytelling around the council fire, or the option to pull up a chair in any of the many camps where homegrown and traditional Appalachian music is played, or the opportunity to answer the call of the drum and dance around the fire under a star filled sky. Striving for cooperation, generosity of spirit, tolerance and harmonious relationships, we welcome the skills, art, music and culture of all human ethnicities.
Earthskills Rendezvous, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit organization. All donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

Falling Leaves 2022
October 3rd - 9th
Early Bird Registration opens later this summer ~ stay tuned! Send us your email address to be added to our mailing list & you'll be the first to know when tickets go on sale!

Why Join Us?

Skills
Learn dozens of survival skills and primitive technologies from world-class instructors.
Culture
Experience how we do things differently, whether through a visit to our Ancestor Fire or attending our board meeting.
Celebration
Join in a drum circle or fireside dancing session to move your body and celebrate life!

Community
Experience village life for a week, where meals, classes, and evening activities weave together to connect folks of many different ages and walks of life.
Craft
Practice heritage arts and crafts with simple, sustainably sourced materials.
Connection
Unplug from the rat race and find that sense of connection to land and community that you've been longing for.
Testimonials
"Rendezvous quite literally altered the course of my life. I came looking for skills and stayed for the community."
- Past Participant
Contact Us!
Contact Info
Phone
Address
828-278-7483
Mail: PO Box 9221, Asheville, NC 28805
Event Site: Avalon, 444 Patterson Rd, Westminster, SC 29693