North American Bushcraft School: Recent Episodes
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A non-profit providing education in the fields of bushcraft, primitive technology, and primitive living skills
The number and intensity of your human relationships can predict a lot about you. How long you’ll live, risk of depression, and your immune system health among many others. This according to the National Institute of Health. Your risk of catching a virus in an infected area is tied more closely to your social network […]
Most of us struggle to find ways we can improve our impact on the planet without picking up the houseplants, quitting our jobs and going to live at the North American Bushcraft School (see what I did there?) So let me pitch to you the idea of relinquishing your perfect Jones’-keeping-up-with yard. Americans spend $30 […]
When the redbuds bloom, it’s time. We decided to use our morning hike on a beautiful chilly April morning in West Virginia to check on the ginseng and goldenseal patches on our property. These plants like cool shaded forest typical of West Virginia’s mountainous and still largely forested landscape. We took the dogs, crossed the […]
The Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus) is native to North America and is a relatively short lived (100-150 years) tree. It is a nitrogen fixer and provides seeds that have been used by people on the continent for thousands of years as a coffee-like drink. The prominent seed pods and seeds are somewhat anachronistic since no […]
Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) was introduced to North American by European colonists, and like all things introduced by European colonists, it is a double-sided coin. This biennial plant (each plant lives for two years, flowering during its second year) is invasive and exotic, meaning that we humans spend a ton of money and time ridding […]
It was less than two weeks into my 7th grade school year when Mrs. Keylin issued each of us a hurricane tracking map. We dutifully plotted the advance of Hurricane Hugo each morning. As it crossed the leeward islands we heard horror stories about the building class 5+ storm. We had never been in a […]