Back in March, I had another opportunity to help out with the 2 Day Basic Survival Course at Green Earth Survival School. The course covers Shelter, Water Purification, Lost-Proofing, Signalling, Map & Compass usage, a nature walk to identify currently available edible and useful plants, and my personal favorite and one of my obsessions, Primitive […]
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Review: Coleman 4D CPX 6 Classic LED Lantern and CPX Rechargeable Power Cartridge
This one is for Brian over at www.thewannabehomesteader.com. Thanks for the request! (My video review at the bottom) Yesterday I mentioned dealing with the power outage, and showed a picture of my family eating with a lantern on the table.
High Tech Maps
When I was about 14 years old, I was hunting on our 93-acre farm by myself. My father had told me that in orrder to best hunt a particular hill, I should follow the ridge line up, then when I got to the top, veer off to the right, and I would end up behind […]
Revisiting Green Deane
Just got another newsletter from Green Deane, a favorite source of information of mine. He really knows his stuff…and better still will tell you when he doesn’t – THAT is the sign of a true professional…and how many professional foragers do you know? Here is a link to his latest newsletter. In it you’ll find […]
Updates 12 Apr 12
Updated the Gardening and Rabbits pages. I don’t always mention when I do, so check back often. Gardens are doing well and spring is well on its way. The mango tree is looking like it will be another bumper crop, as long as we don’t get any nasty wind like we did two years ago. […]
Attended Green Deane foraging class at Dreher Park
As you may have seen in a previous post, Green Deane, of www.eattheweeds.com offers foraging classes all across Florida. Since I grew up eating the weeds of West Virginia, attending his class wasn’t much of a jump to me, though some of the plants were alien to me at best, at least as far as […]
Volunteers or, “Free food you weren’t expecting”
I’ve been working at gardening in my back yard for almost two years now, and I’m guilty of a bad habit. From time to time, I’ll take seeds and randomly scatter them across the yard to see what happens. Most of them either decompose, or get eaten by one of my foraging birds, but occasionally, […]
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Paleo Mole Crab Poppers or “With Baited Breath”
I love to fish, it’s a serious distraction to me. And while I try to learn as much as possible, I’ve grown to understand that they call it “fishing” rather than “catching” for a reason. I was fishing late one evening about 18 years ago with my oldest daughter, catching small