The purpose and mission of the Kingdom of Atlantia Royal Forestry Guild is to research, recreate, demonstrate, and teach medieval forestry, outdoor living, and primitive skills. We are enthusiastically dedicated to no trace camping, protecting the green spaces, self-reliance, woodcraft, campcraft, bushcraft, overland travel, inland water travel, outdoor cooking, survival, primitive skills, and historical tools, methods, equipment and techniques for living, camping, traveling and cooking, all in period fashion. Members are charged by our guild charter to “practice and promote the woodland arts and sciences; educate and guide others in these skills; and be prepared at all times to aid those in need of safety, hospitality, or shelter in the woodland places of the Realm”.

As a guild within the SCA, membership is open to all interested persons who reside in the Kingdom of Atlantia!

• If you like to roast marshmallows on a fire and think camping is fun, you qualify to be a forester.
• If you are a primitive skills enthusiast who has handmade your gear using period techniques, you qualify to be a forester.
• If you are a history buff who likes to walk in the woods and wants to have a forester persona, you qualify to be a forester.

As long as you are committed to protecting the green spaces and interested in outdoor skills, there is a place for you here!

You do not need to change your persona to become a forester. While a lot of the imagery and titles we use the in the guild are based around 13th century English royal forest administration, members are only asked to incorporate “wilderness use” (deliberately vague!) into their guild persona. While some members pursue a persona based on historic foresters, others pursue “outdoor skills” that their personae would have just considered “life skills”, such as foraging, fire making, and cooking over coals. We will help you learn guild-releavnt skills appropriate for your persona.

There is a place in the guild for all types of personas wishing to practice outdoor skills and living!

To get started, see this blog post on Joining the Guild, look for some ways of Finding Foresters, or contact us!