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  • 5 Non-GMO Edible Plants In Your Back Yard : Eat Weeds, Not Chemicals - If given the choice of eating naturally grown veggies or those that have been unnaturally genetically modified to withstand massive doses of pesticides, I think any rationally minded human would go the natural route. The proponents of GMO foods are fighting against GMO labels on food products for that very reason – they know people [...]
  • Creek’s Top 2 Wild Edible Plant Reference Books: Thoughts & Review - If you’re into survival, then you need a few good Wild Edible Plant titles in your survival library.  Finding the right ones can be a little overwhelming – trust me, I’ve bought about every wild edible plant guide there is over the past 15 years.  Some of them are completely worthless, some are vague and [...]
  • How well do you know your Venison (Deer) Meat Cuts? -
  • Wild Grape Jelly: Practicing an important homesteading survival skill - When it comes to Practicing Survival Skills – I’d much rather be out in the field making a sling shot or shooting my 10/22 or chopping fire wood, actually probably doing anything else besides inside at the kitchen counter trying to figure out how to make jelly.  But, that’s what learning is all about – [...]
  • Poke : Pokeweed : Poke Salet : Survival Wild Edible - It’s interesting to me how a plant can be edible and poisonous at the same time. Pokeweed is one of those wild plants.  Normally, I stay away from wild edibles that have a poisonous element but Poke is one of those rare exceptions.  It’s just too dang good. Poke is normally an early riser – [...]
  • Now all I need is some camel hair, a girdle of skin about my loins and some locusts… - So this post is not instructional, just an event that I thought you would appreciate. I’ve spent the past few weeks clearing for and digging a pond here at Willow Haven – which is some exciting news for those of you scheduled for courses this summer and fall.  I’ll be taking primitive fishing skills to [...]
  • Is that 253 Maple Seeds in your mouth or are you just happy to see me? - Maple Syrup is a DIVA and get all the glory and fame!  The humble Maple Seed sits quietly in the shadows and gets absolutely no credit for the fruit of its labor.  Not only are the helicopter wings an aviation and architectural wonder, but the seeds they strategically transport inside the built-in cockpit are an [...]
  • That Wild Flower Is So Cute I Could Just Eat It – The Spring Beauty Wild Edible - The best season for Wild Edibles is fast approaching – SPRING.  For many of us, Spring is coming early this year and many wild edibles are already popping up all over the place.  One of the first wild flowers to show up is The Spring Beauty.  I’ve been around this little flower my whole life [...]
  • How to Make a Quick Bushcraft Trail Fork - When I go on an overnight camp/hike I enjoy the ‘camping’ more than the ‘hiking’.  I always look forward to picking a site, setting up camp, and getting a fire going so I can relax.  I hate pushing a hike up until dusk looking for a site.  I prefer to choose a site well before [...]
  • How To Field Dress a Squirrel – an article by Creek Stewart on ArtofManliness.com - Today, ArtofManliness.com published an article I wrote titled How To Field Dress a Squirrel.  In this article, I walk readers through a step-by-step way to field dress a squirrel.  If you are interested in knowing how to do this or would just like to see how I like to do it you can read the [...]