Pine Pitch 🌲: The Most Convenient Prehistoric Adhesive?
PINE PITCH In the past and now, people have used two sticky substances: hide glue and pine pitch. Hide glue is a bit more complicated and often traded or used by skilled individuals. It involves a process called hide tanning, which can be difficult. On the other hand, pine pitch is easier to make, and […]
Why are People Afraid of Plants? 😨🌵
People sometimes don’t get plants, and I’m still learning too. But I know plants are our friends, and they want to help us. Imagine a world with even more trees and forests than we have now – that would be awesome! But why don’t we have that? It could be because we need to […]
🏏Chunkey: Entertainment From the Mississippian
I remember walking out on the boardwalk behind the Seminole Tribal and Historic Preservation Office when I came across three guys chiseling rock and sharpening sticks. Normally, apart from Daniel Tommie making canoes at the hunting camp, there are no other demonstrators regularly present, so I seized this opportunity to inquire and introduce myself. Upon […]
The Forest is Gone…So What?
Driving By “I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again, we can’t eat money, or drink oil.”- Autumn Peltier A recurring theme is happening in my life. It’s called deforestation, and you may have heard of it. If one drives through Rockland County, New York, today, you’ll find the amount of forest cover […]
Yucca: The Popeye of Plant Fibers
🌿 Yucca: The Popeye of Plant Fibers Mom’s Garden Growing up, the crime of tampering with my mom’s garden was worse than getting arrested for robbing a bank. I heard the name across many SPT (Society of Primitive Technology, if you can get your hands on a journal, don’t let go) journals, its utility […]
Activating the Will
🧠🙌🏻 Activating the will How can the Will, a term often used in Waldorf education to describe the inner drive and determination, be activated and harnessed through sustainable tool-making? I’m a busy man. I have to set aside time to work on survival projects intentionally. I do this to stay consistently accountable and grow […]
Beyond the Wall of Green
The industrial approach to the conservation of our natural places, as opposed to urban spaces, is often characterized as an offshoot of the “Leave No Trace” movement. (1) In a similar thread, John Muir in the late 1800s, who was considered one of the fathers of the early American environmental movement, upon visiting Yellowstone National […]
Review of Medical Uses of Reishi
INTRODUCTION Reishi (Genus: Ganoderma; Family) The immune system in many ways can be perceived as a non-local phenomenon. For us at the LionMan School of ReWilding, the significance of your host cells (human cells) to locate dangerous organisms (at the DNA level), surround them, and secrete substances that target solely those life forms, seems like […]
Wild Edible Children
“It is an often-repeated number that about 30 species of plants are eaten by a typical American in one year… The Hausa foragers of West Africa utilized 119 food plants (compiled from different sources).” – Arthur Haines When I work with children in the local forests, a sense of happiness and awe surrounds me. Our […]