Your Wilderness Survival and Primitive Skills School

We are now accepting applications for our apprenticeship program!  If you want a tailored experience designed around your lifestyle or a complete immersion in the skills, each apprenticeship is custom designed to address you interests, comfort zones, and ability levels.  The focus is your growth and development in the skills!

Our adult programs have been running strong since 1989. Also ask about our kids' programs. If you have any questions, e-mail or call the school.

About the Maine Primitive Skills School

The Maine Primitive Skills School is a wilderness survival school located on 23 wooded acres in Augusta, Maine. We started originally as the Good Earth School in 1989 and became MPSS in 1998. Our goal is to reconnect people to ancient technologies and back to themselves. We teach primitive skills, survival skills, wilderness survival, modern survival, bushcraft, native awareness, wildlife tracking, earth living, shelter building, water collection & disinfection, friction fire making, bow making, flintknapping, wild edibles, hide tanning, scout skills, primitive hunting, earth philosophy, drum making, survival trapping, and more. Come to a class! You will connect with people on a new level and reconnect with wilderness survival skills that your ancestors practiced. We'll see you soon!

Our Mission

"The purpose of the Maine Primitive Skills Survival School is to provide and preserve ancient survival skills that promote awareness and sufficiency with an emphasis on individuals, communities, and environments in today's world."