Traditional Skills Workshops!

  Outdoorsman and writer, Jim Miller is one of the nation's leading advocates of the study and application of traditional skills and crafts. The Port Huron, Michigan native discovered the beauty and essence of the natural world at an early age and has spent countless hours studying the skills of our ancestors in woods, fields and streams throughout the Great Lakes region.

"An outdoorsman and expert in primitive and traditional skills and crafts"

--  GARY WINKELMAN --        OBSERVER & ECCENTRIC NEWSPAPERS

  Miller has written many articles on primitive and traditional skills and crafts which have appeared in publications such as Wilderness Way, Michigan Wilderness Journal, Woods 'n Water News, Whispering Winds Magazine and the Bulletin of Primitive Technologies. He is currently compiling these and other writings for future publication.

"Miller sees his charge as threefold: raise awareness of Michigan's natural resources, demonstrate the history of things 'done very well' here, and preserve and promote time tested skills as an art form."

--  AARON OGG --        TRUE NORTH MAGAZINE

  He is perhaps best known for his all-natural brain tanning method of producing buckskin without the use of toxic chemicals. Skins tanned through Miller's process were used in the movie Thunderheart and supplied to the craftsmen of the movie The Indian In My Cupboard. His boxes, made from birch bark, in the design of the Woodland Indians, are featured at historic Fort Mackinaw, Mackinaw, Michigan.

"a popular speaker and demonstrator at schools around the state"

--  ERIC SHARP --      DETROIT FREE PRESS

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