Forgotten Skillz

Forgotten Skillz A community for local Long Island friends who want to explore the skills that helped our ancestors thrive to help us live more sustainable modern lives.
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Workshops & outings held regularly across Long Island

Something about a fire in the woods with friends.....
11/17/2025

Something about a fire in the woods with friends.....

Learn more about how a recent shelter-building activity taught powerful lessons in resilience, leadership, and personal ...
11/15/2025

Learn more about how a recent shelter-building activity taught powerful lessons in resilience, leadership, and personal growth for a group of homeschool students.

Experiential learning and shelter-building activities teach powerful lessons in resilience, leadership, and personal growth for learners of all ages.

We get a fish, and then keep its tank clean so the fish can thrive. We should give ourselves the same courtesy.
11/15/2025

We get a fish, and then keep its tank clean so the fish can thrive. We should give ourselves the same courtesy.

11/13/2025

One of the things we like to teach in our survival classes is that "The More you know, the less you have to carry."

During our recent survival workshop at the Sands Point Preserve, we put this idea to work by demonstrating that we can often make the tools we lack.

In this case, we made a rocket stove out of a log. letting us have heat, a bit of light, and a potential cooking surface, all while using our fuel efficiently to save effort and time.

11/12/2025

Like Survival, life happens on a spectrum. To be able to prioritize, shift between tasks, build proficiencies that blur the borders between domains... this is the key to success as a generalist.

Add to this the recognition of what you do NOT have the skill to do yourself, along with who or what can help with that deficiency, and you've got a plan for success.

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11/11/2025

CONFIRMED: The Wilderness Survival Series Returns for 2026!

We’re thrilled to announce that our Wilderness Survival Workshop Series will once again be running at Sands Point Preserve, Vanderbilt Museum, and CEED!

This year’s lineup brings all your favorite topics — shelter building, foraging, firecraft, toolmaking, and more — but with a brand-new structure, deeper cultural insights, and our exciting new micro-certification system that lets you track your progress all the way to your Wilderness Survival Level I Certificate.

Whether you’ve joined us before or this will be your first step into the world of outdoor skills, each session has been upgraded with new activities, expanded lessons, and historical and cultural perspectives that show how these timeless practices shaped human ingenuity across the globe.

Previous participants will find fresh challenges and new layers of discovery, while newcomers will experience the same welcoming, hands-on learning environment that makes these workshops so special.

📅 Registration opens soon!
Keep an eye on ForgottenSkillz.com/events
and follow us here on social media for dates, registration links, and early announcements.

🪶 Reconnect with nature. Learn new skills. Discover what you’re capable of.

11/10/2025
11/10/2025
Getting ready for this afternoon's Coil Basket workshop at Sachem Library.Offered through our Forgotten Skillz brand, ki...
11/07/2025

Getting ready for this afternoon's Coil Basket workshop at Sachem Library.

Offered through our Forgotten Skillz brand, kids will learn to make their own baskets, and how this fun skill connects them across time and culture to weavers around the world and throughout history.

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Patchogue, NY

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Forgotten Skillz - Long Island

Welcome to FORGOTTEN SKILLZ!

We are a community for local Long Island friends who want to explore the skills that helped our ancestors become self-sufficient, including experimental archaeology, bushcraft, foraging, cooking, woodworking, homesteading, & more.

We believe in the practice of generalism. We are not survival specialists, though we do practice our survival skills and bushcraft basics. We are not preppers, though we do like to prepare for emergencies, both natural and human-made . We are not farmers or off-grid homesteaders, though we do prefer to live as much as possible without outside influence.

As generalists, we endeavor to become better than 80% of people at a wide variety of skills and topics. We will spend some time specializing in one area or another to gain proficiency, but we often then move on to the next area of discovery. Our goal is to be able to survive and thrive as a community, no matter what, but to also carry with us enough general knowledge (and skill) to be able to point specialists in the right direction. We are indeed jacks of all trades.