Services
It's Time to Start Your Adventures
Check out our classes and services below. Find out why Arcturus Primitive Skills Institute is right for you.
Knots and Fire
Come and learn about invaluable knots that will help you survive and thrive in the wilderness. Also learn how to make fire.
Edible and Medicinal Plants
Come and learn about plants you can find in the eastern woodlands that you can eat, or that can provide you medicine.
Survival 101 Basic Class
Come out for a weekend of your choosing and learn invaluable skills that will help you survive and thrive in the wild.
Survival Gear & Preparedness Supplies
Arcturus Primitive Skills Institute offers survival gear and preparedness supplies. We will get you the training you need and the gear you will require to survive anything, from being lost in the woods, to a grid down societal collapse.
Why APSI
The founder of APSI has been practicing survival and bushcraft for many years. Art has attended several courses and survival schools in the continental U.S. He has also attended tracker training, and Wilderness First Responder training. Art is a certified Wilderness First Responder (WFR). Art is also a hunter, and avid outdoorsman in the Michigan area.
- Experience: Art has attended numerous survival schools
- Reputation: The instructor is very honest, and has a good name
- Guide Experience: tracker school, Wilderness First Responder
What You Get
You will get outdoor classroom time and extensive hands on training. You will practice the skills after they are shown to you. The tools will be provided for you. You will not need to bring a knife, saw, fire-making tools (although you are welcome to do so), etc. No requirement to buy a 100+ dollar kit for the course (unlike some schools). APSI also offers a growing online store where you can purchase survival gear and preparedness supplies that will get you through everything, from being lost in the woods to surviving the apocalypse.
- Hands on training in an outdoor classroom
- Outdoor area to place your tent or hammock
- Restroom area where you can go in total privacy