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Making Stone Flakes From a Columnar Basalt Core
For a while now I’ve been playing around with making tools from hard stone. I’m not a great knapper. I’m not really even a good one. I’m a novice when it comes to making beautiful arrowheads and knives. I can make functional arrowheads, and functional knives from obsidian or even glass bottles. My concern has…
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English Ivy Quickie “Survival” Basket
Quickie “survival” basket I made today in an hour or so at the Teen Wilderness Skills camp, a partnership between Rewild Portland and Portland Parks – Teen Environmental Adventures. Would have taken maybe 20 more minutes if I pulled the ivy myself. Simple weaving, no twining. I call these “survival” baskets because none of the…
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English Ivy Bow-Drill Kit
This mornings experiment: English Ivy Bow-drill with old growth ivy. Bow: English Ivy. Hand hold: English Ivy. Spindle: English Ivy. Fire board: English Ivy. Tinder: English Ivy bark. String: Brain-tanned buckskin. I tried to make a good cord from English Ivy roots using them in a withy-style but they were too dried out from yesterday…
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English Ivy Quickie Basket
My latest ivy basket experiment. Another “quickie” basket but this time as a time trial with only stone tools. Took approximately 2 hrs from start of harvest to completion of basket. Used a discoidal basalt stone flake for cutting and trimming the ivy and a broken twig (probably Douglas Fir) for an awl that I…
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Himalayan Blackberry Visor
This is a visor I wove out of inner Himalayan Blackberry Bark. The rim is a simple plaited weave and the brim is twined.
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Woven Yellow Cedar Pouch
This is a Yellow Cedar pouch I wove for my neice’s 10th birthday. The cord is made from reverse-wrapped chemical tanned deerskin.
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Agriculture Revisited
In my chapter called “Agriculture Vs. Rewilding” I wrote about how agriculture is inherently destructive. I’ve lately come to revise this idea a bit. What inspired me to do this was looking at the origins of agriculture itself, and hearing from a few people that there are still agricultural people alive today who did not…
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Satelite Press Transmission Interview
Nathan from Tranmission interviewed me the other day about my non-profit Rewild Portland and the philosophy of rewilding. Check it out here: http://satellitepress.org/index.php/2013/04/18/rewilding/
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Paleofantasyfallacy
I was disappointed to discover that Paleofantasy is not a fictionalized novel about paleo peoples. Rather, it is a pop-cultural, non-fiction book about how the paleo craze (that has been growing for some time now) is allegedly based on a false understanding of evolution.
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Rewild Portland Spring Fundraiser
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3 Reasons to Learn Chinuk Wawa
Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa in the language) is the original lingua-franca of Cascadia, born out of the coming together of different cultures during the fur trade era of the early 1800’s.
