Category: Community Activity

2026

Last Summer My Vegetables Stopped Growing in the Extreme Heat

I’ll be honest: last Summer my Potato harvest was abysmal, & in the extreme heat my vegetables stopped growing; at times, some plants’ leaves wilted. Many died and I know…
2026

Tinder Boxes

Tinder Boxes A tinder box is your advantage when making a fire. It can be any container, and it can hold whatever tinder works for you. Sometimes it’s not even…
2026

Foraging: Why “know local edibles” & “learn 5–10 safe, local edible plants and fungi” is a Darwin Award Lottery Ticket.

Getting Foraging Wrong Can Be Lethal Because people get stuff wrong. Other foraging books/videos might not adequately differentiate between plants or give warnings; in fact, some social media foraging groups…
2026

And those who prepare for danger are wise and prudent (Proverbs 22).

Preppers used to be ridiculed — but we’re all stockpiling now The UK government urging households to prepare for unknown threats with a three-day supply of food and water doesn’t…
2026

Honoring Fear or Facing Our Fear? Darkness, Nature, Survivalism, & Survival Skills

Initiation into fear and our responses to it is the great personal work we need to do. Episode 1 of Channel 4 Apocalypse, which I reviewed, offers a great example…
2026

Survival Skills: The skills and knowledge that enable a deep connection to nature

Rekindling your connection to nature may be the most rewarding thing you do in your lifetime; it offers lifelong learning in skills that bring you into close communication with plants…
2026

Xylem Water Filtration: Plant-Based, Sustainable Water Filters Approved by MIT Engineers

The Gold Standard: Settling, Filtration/Flocculation, Chemical Sterilisation (chlorine-based) and Boiling. Water filtration can be achieved with Xylem water filters, sustainably and without expensive equipment. MIT engineers have made filters from…
2026

Water in the Ecological Crisis: A Dwindling Resource: Harvesting, Storage & Processing

This post is an amalgamation of multiple posts from my Blogger blog published between 2020 and 2024 The climate and ecological crisis is also a water crisis. Here are some…