Getting up close and personal with several thousand honeybees… it’s a pretty good way to spend a Saturday morning. Round Rock Honey offers introductory beekeeping classes that allow you to learn the basics of raising the buzzy insects and producing your own honey. This past week I got the chance to visit their operation and… Continue reading Mind your beeswax
Survival doesn’t just mean being able to make a bow drill fire or having a year’s supply of food in your pantry. To me, survival also means resilience: not giving up in the face of difficult situations or unexpected outcomes, and finding ways to cope with disaster and move forward. Yesterday I talked to someone… Continue reading Survival lessons in songs
It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. On Saturday, in part three of The Human Path’s Hunter-Gatherer class, we learned how to kill, field dress and cook a goose and a rabbit. Yes, we learned how to kill animals for food. It was anything but easy. As anyone knows, I’m a huge… Continue reading Your goose (and rabbit) are cooked
Sam Coffman of The Human Path has released a video on preparing an herbal liniment for sprains and muscle strains. Sam regularly teaches classes on herbology and herbal preparations. As you will note from my previous post on how to make salves, much of the process is actually similar. Additionally, because one of the salves… Continue reading Herbal First Aid Kit: Liniments
When the lights went out, it was unexpected. Probably the product of our blistering drought and huge taxing demands placed on the power grid here; one Sunday night recently, the system sputtered and plunged our area into darkness. At the time, I’d been sitting in a warm tub of water, trying to soothe the effects… Continue reading Never Quite Ready
I’ve been trying to get by on less: spending less money, buying less useless crap, using less in my daily life. In other words, I’m trying to do my best to live within my means and use what I have, rather than rush out to the store to buy more stuff. This is a goal… Continue reading Clouds in my coffee
Dilbert’s a geek AND a prepper! In the following Dilbert comic strip, which I found out about on The Survival Podcast and then found online via Survival and Prosperity we learn that our favorite office geek Dilbert has been prepping like a lot of the rest of us: What’s worth considering is that a lot… Continue reading Dilbert the prepper
Modern American society needs to stop worshipping at the altars of St. Augustine and St. Bermuda. I can’t think of anything else besides lawn grasses that we humans grow that requires as much labor, fertilizer, fuel, water and space, and yet produces nothing useful. We spend millions of dollars as a society to make sure… Continue reading What’s so sacred about lawns?
Ever gone to the grocery store just before a hurricane/ice storm/heavy snowfall, or after a serious thunderstorm? If so, you may recall how little milk, bread, and other basic items were left on the shelves. Planning for extreme weather or natural disasters, or even an invasion of zombies, are all great reasons to build up… Continue reading Long-term food storage & zombie prevention
Garlic socks, nosebleed remedies and male/female stress formulas. These are just a few of the interesting topics we discussed in our most recent herbology class taught by Sam Coffman of The Human Path. First, our class concocted three different herbal tinctures. One is a cold and flu remedy; the other two are male and female… Continue reading Herbal first-aid kit: tinctures & herbal tidbits
Surviving the Modern World 