The Little Black Bear Earth Wisdom Centre facilitates a spectrum of traditional and eco-alternative Earth wisdom workshops.

Come and learn how to LIVE IN THE BUSH WITH NEXT TO NOTHING, START FIRES FROM SCRATCH, BUILD BUSH SHELTERS, FIND AND PREPARE WILD FOOD, SPROUT, GROW ORGANIC FOOD and MEDICINE, WILDCULTURING, PERMA-CULTURE, BUILD WITH COB AND LOG, MAKE GREY WATER AND HUMANURE SYSTEMS, HARVEST HERBS, HERB DRYING, FOOD STORAGE, DEHYDRATION, FERMENTATION, MEDICINE MAKING and many more things

The dream of Little Black Bear is to help people reconnect with the Earth, and learn through hands on experience how to live with her in a harmonious and sustainable way. The workshops are facilitated by leading and internationally recognized teachers. Steven Martyn, the ring leader and founder of Little Black Bear Earth Wisdom  Centre and The Algonquin Tea Co., has taught and co-facilitated workshops since 1989 and living-off the land since 1984.

  One of the most unique aspects of the workshops is that they are small scale and take place at The Algonquin Tea Co. farm, where Steven, Megan, their son Oscar, and the seasonal interns live. As a participant you get to experience 'a day in the life' at the farm, directly seeing hundreds of details about 'living off the land'.  And this is on top of the intensive learning and immersion into the world of that weeks workshop. Participants are not isolated is a sterile room and rushed from one isolated teaching to another, but rather are immersed into the flow of the day, into different aspects of the living world in a integrated way, and then given time and space to reflect and replenish before the next experience.

 We offer longer workshops as we have seen through experience that this amount of time allows for people to slow down, which in turn creates space for more synergies and a deeper healing experience with nature to occur. Three of the most amazing and rewarding aspects common to all the workshops are the location, the food and the company. Workshops are limited to 12 people, so no one gets left behind. Each group ends up forming what can only be described as a tribe with each person having their place in this circle of humanity. It's enough to give us a glimpse at our ancestral life, or at what life could be like when everyone cares for everyone, and everyone as they are has their special honored place.The farm itself is both a rural and wilderness property, with the original 136 year old log cabin where we live, and 200 acres of mixed bush and wetlands. 

At the farm we grow most of our own food, have chickens and get raw milk from a local cow-share. The meals are made from fresh organic heirloom species, and indigenous wild species, including treats like mushrooms, wild leeks, fiddleheads, trout lilies, and many more healing plants. Megan (with the help of participants and apprentices) creates incredibly tasty nutritious meals with what we've harvested. 100% real food. Because the workshops are limited to 12 people, no one gets left behind. Each group ends up forming what can only be described as a tribe with each person having their place in this circle of humanity. It's enough to give us a glimpse at our ancestral life, or at what life could be like when everyone cares for everyone, and everyone as they are has their special honored place.