SKILL PORTAL: PLANTS, WILDERNESS SKILLS & INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS
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The preparation of edible and medicinal plants and the practice of primitive survival skills, being hands-on, bring you very directly to that rich ancestral relationship humans once had with the natural world that is based on learning and respect. Here are resources, techniques and stories, some of them from native culture classes we co-taught with First Nation colleagues over many years, and others from around the world.
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HARVESTING & USING ACORNS
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MEDICINAL PLANT RECIPES
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MOCCASIN MANUFACTURE
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TECHNIQUES AND STORIES ABOUT SURVIVAL AND PRIMITIVE SKILLS, PLANT USES AND INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS
Articles about edible and medicinal plants, fire-making, bone and stone tools, cordage and more - available in our Newsletter Archives.
WILD EDIBLE PLANT RECIPES
Edible plant recipes & menus from our classes - available through our Newsletter Archives.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PLANT USES by Mary Brooks and Jim Lowery
This booklet lists common regional plants with many uses, such as food, medicine, basketry, fire-making and cordage among others. Detailed information was collected from more than 30 books on survival, plants and ethnobotany.