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Oh, and since this is on the ol' H1N1, I had it. It was wonderfully exciting. Temp of 103 F. I did not bother to get the blood work done, so it's not 100% that it was swine flu, but the nurse told me it was swine flu. She said the symptoms were ex...
September 23
When I was taught fire cider it had black walnut hulls as well, and there was none of this nancy-pancy 'filter out the plant mush' nonsence. Also, though feralhuman fervently denies this, there was non of this watered-down 'one HALF part habenero'...
September 23
Thanks folks, I sent a lot of this information to my mom, who can't get any flu vaccines due to an allergy. She's excited about it all!
September 19
I have had some requests lately for plants and fungi that could help with the H1N1 virus (a.k.a. swine flu). Rather than answer everyone individually, I decided to post a short article with a variety of plants that have demonstrated antiviral and/...
September 17
June 20
Here's an interesting skills play technique. Take a gallon milk jug and stuff it with rags, or grass, just something to stop an arrow. find a place where you can hang in a tree on about 15 to 20' of cord. That way it can swing freely. give it a ha...
June 18
Nice post Gary. The earth gives us feedback when we're doing it right or not, the critter runs or it doesn't. There isn't much in the way we can BS ourselves about our level of mastery. A great training method for developing higher and different s...
June 13
I shoot my bow every day, along with a few other practice activities. I find archery is a discipline that has much to offer, learn, and yes, even to grow older with. Today I took a walk with my bow and a digger tool, shooting casually at stumps, w...
June 12

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About Me
Hi, I'm a long term practitioner of earthliving skills.
School or Gathering Affiliation:
Maine Primitive Skills School
What do you do for a living?
Mostly I work with organic produce and herbs.
What are your interests or hobbies?
Alternative health care modalities.
Do you have any skills that you specialize in?
Specialization is for insects.

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Recessionproofing one's life with earth skills

Years ago Sun Bear wrote, "The price of acorns hasn't changed in 10,000 years. You just go and pick them up." It being spring and the wild weeds are wantonly springing upward full of nutritious vigor it's a great time to make a start on recessionproofing one's life by incorporating more and more wild delictables into one's daily life.
A number of years ago I was living in a community in which my housing situation wasn't too stable. While I had a variety of biointensive gardening beds, fruit tree… Continue

Posted on May 5, 2009 at 1:20pm — 1 Comment

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Swine Flu

The swine flu is in the news today. There's LOTS of stuff each of you can do to not plug into the fear based paradigm that the media swindlers and politicians might try to lead people into. Those of you who've been through the school's healing/plant classes might recall one very good remedy: Fire Cider

FIRE CIDER: Some other names: four thieve's vinegar, complete tonic, total tonic. Take equal parts of onion, garlic, ginger, horseradish and a half part of habanero peppers. Blend in the blender… Continue

Posted on April 28, 2009 at 6:11pm — 10 Comments

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Advance Stalking and Tai Chi

Stalking is a useful skill for more than just getting close to animals. It's also an internal movement method comparable and with effects similiar to tai chi or pa kua. We start with the technical aspects of movement, the fox walk, the weasel walk, the basic stalking step, the hands and knees stalk, the belly stalk. These 5 forms cover most of the what you need to move across the landscape in a stealthy manner. It is highly useful to play them everyday, it takes time and repetition to build the… Continue

Posted on April 19, 2009 at 12:02pm — 6 Comments

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Emerging from hibernation with skills play

Finally the winter is letting up and mobility is restored back onto the landscape, the time of inward contemplation is being balanced by a time of increasing physical activity. We stretch and exercise just like the woodchuck coming up out of his winter hole. Time to start building the body back up for the demands of outdoor work/play that come with spring and summer. Primitive skills are amazing fitness builders.
Starting it off with archery, I had forgotten what a nice upperbody workout drawing… Continue

Posted on March 30, 2009 at 10:50am — 4 Comments

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Knives: How little can we get by with?

Survivalists tend to enjoy knives and over the years I've spent hundreds of dollars on them. Tactical knife magazines and outdoor forums are full of knife talk and discussions about the latest greatest ultimate survival knife. It's funny though, as my experience grows my attachment to the knife quest decreases. More recently than I like to admit to I purchased the ultimate survival knife, the Tops Tracker knife. After years of listening to the hype I have found oout that hype is hype, and a heav… Continue

Posted on March 28, 2009 at 2:31pm — 18 Comments

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Using the Whole Animal at Toms River, NJ
November 14, 2009 at 12pm to November 19, 2009 at 5pm
In conjunction with Practical Primitive (www.practicalprimitive.com), we are offering this special "Using the Whole Animal" workshop again this year. This is a six day, totally hands-on workshop that will go through the full process of how to use ...
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Well, I have been trying to figure out all the gadgetry to make more MPSS instructional videos, and Nick has been too busy with college to help out. So I recruited the nearest available talent. Tell me what you think of Emily's "Autumn Olive Fruit...
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Trev~ you have to wrap the bowstring around the spindle. See? (i love you sis)
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Oops, that was actually me. And the link button up there doesn't seem to work, so here it is: http://www.starofthebards.com/laloba-wolfwoman
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Did it work this time?
October 21
Kyla can you post the link to the story..thanks
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