Foundational Acorns
I've been criticized in the past (by people who don't bother to actually converse with me) for advocating and teaching skills such as foraging, gardening, hunting, fishing, and permaculture as a means...
View Article"Post-Colonial" Rewilding
After work Sunday night I managed to make it to a great party hosted by my friends Elizabeth, Marco (of the blog "Politics of the Cerebral", linked on the right), and Christina. The party was in...
View ArticleOn Killing and Balance: An Ecological and Reciprocity Based Ethical Foundation
I am a killer. I don't deny this, and I have no problem with it. I'm a complex animal, and therefore I'm a killer. All complex animals are, as are most simple animals. Basically all creatures besides a...
View Article"With Friends Like These..."
Yesterday author Lierre Keith (of "The Vegetarian Myth", which I'm currently reading) was attacked by three masked cowards, with a cream pie laced with cayenne pepper, who then shouted "GO VEGAN". By...
View ArticleWild/Local Food Challenge!
My partner has been suggesting that I do some posts about more physical things, such as step-by-step tutorials and updates about my own projects and activities. After all, telling people why they need...
View ArticleWild Eating Challenge Conclusion
After just over three weeks, I've decided to end my wild/gardened food experiment. It wasn't for any lack of food or blandness; over the past three weeks I've had the opportunities to try a number of...
View ArticleRecipe: Venison Adobo
My partner Kris has been saying that I should post one of my recipes that always goes over well: venison adobo. I've made it for Rewild New England gatherings, as well as in general from time to time....
View ArticleAcorn Processing
I was asked on my Facebook recently if I had something about how to process acorns on this blog, and realized I hadn't. Seems like a kind of important post to have, considering the name of the blog and...
View ArticleWhy I Eat Meat
This is a beautiful post from Sean Donahue at Green Man Ramblings, reproduced here because I think it's important, and have touched on similar things with a piece some months ago.I was a vegetarian for...
View ArticleWhy Environmentalists Need to Hunt
After reading Sean's great piece about reasons for eating meat, it occurred to me that in many places, hunting isn't just an environmentally sound way to get meat, it's a social and environmental...
View ArticleWinter Hibernation and Return
Winter is always a weird time for me, writing wise. A lot of things have been happening lately with me, and I can use them all as excuses to cover for the fact that, essentially, I've just ignored...
View ArticleHunting Advice
As I've mentioned before, I'm making efforts to transition my diet away from markets and towards relying on my landbase for food. This has involved some gardens (some failed, some successful), lots of...
View ArticleThe Premises of This Blog
It's been said often enough that argument arises out of people thinking they mean the same thing with the same words. More specifically, a lot of these disputes have to do with pre-conceived ideas...
View ArticleThree Sister Gardening
I just started digging out some gardens to plant the Three sisters, a traditional triad of plants grown in many places on the North American continent. It's a fantastic technique for growing a survival...
View ArticleEco-literacy
Just as you can't truly love another human without knowing them intimately, you can't love your landbase without knowing it intimately. In other words, you can't be a real environmentalist, or not...
View ArticleCattails: "Supermarket in the Swamp"
It's about time I did a post on the other wild plant I think is supremely important as a food source for self-sufficiency and wilderness survival. Cattails, which are the plants in the genus typha, are...
View ArticleThe Quandary of Medical Technology
This summer my father nearly died, and was saved by high-tech heart surgery. In the immediate period of recovery following this event, during which I was busily employed at my parents shop to help pull...
View ArticleGuest Post: Masculinity is Not Revolutionary
Originally posted here by Kid Cutbank, and reposted here with permission. This is an idea that I think is essential to our creating egalitarian cultures, or just in general living in a sane way....
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