Today we take a virtual tour along the Puyallup Riverwalk celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. Our Mission: Investigate the Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants, Birds & Other Wildlife of the Lower Puyallup River. The city’s riverwalk is a 10′ wide walking and biking route from Tacoma-to-Tahoma (Mt Rainier) envisioned years ago by the…
We continue to celebrate Earth Week today by sequestering carbon via “biochar” and planting cedar trees correctly to ensure the greatest long-term sequestration possible. We’ll also check to see how much solar gain we achieved with our panels since yesterday, as well as starting fire by flint and steel. It’s part of our “You Healthy?…
Acorns: the nuts from oak trees. When you read this post and watch the live video we add, you’ll realize that this seems like a lot of work, even with modern technology. That might be why very few, if any, societies use acorns nowadays, whereas acorns were a staple that built civilizations in the past….
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Where Do Trees Come From? Answer Today in the Live Stream below! Tour the Blue Skye Farm Orchard and then plant a cedar tree with us, the best way to reverse climate change. We’ll show you how to plant so a tree lives a long life. It’s a celebration to kick off the 50th Anniversary…
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Today we’ll make Kim’s special home-made deodorant – just in case there’s a run on that at the store (lol) before finishing what we started on Friday, turning our herbal oil into a salve. We’ll end with the classic Shaker song “Simple Gifts.” It’s part of our 40 day “You Healthy? Go Outside!” Quarantine Broadcasts…
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Today, in place of a workshop canceled due to the state’s “stay at home” order, we will explore yard herbs, and open up the camp stove to cook wild edibles such as dandelion, nettle, berry flowers, and even grass! Chris will also demonstrate how to refill those green propane camp stove tanks so you don’t…
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Today we make an herbal oil with plants to heal dry and injured skin, and enjoy some pine needle tea to enhance our Vitamin C intake. Some of the plants from the yard we plan to use for the bee’s wax salve include Cottonwood/Poplar Buds and Plantain Leaf. We’ll also add some flowers we dried…
Today we’ll show you how to process stinging nettles into strong fiber, and in honor of a long forecast stretch of rain here, we’re going to keep spirits up by show you our method of building fire, called the “Bed, Pillow & Blanket” along with proper methods of using a Fire Steel to light it. …
Today we show you how to make rope from natural materials and review our Top 10 Ways to avoid getting lost or into other emergency situations, plus unveil our new Coronavirus Screening Form and Outdoor Activity Protocols. It’s March 22, 2020 – Day 7 of our “You Healthy? Go Outside!” Quarantine Broadcast Series – Family…
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Today we walk into the woods to see the springtime edible and medicinal plants popping out, and explore how to find natural spring water. We’ll end with the inspirational song “We Are People Of The River” by Ken Lonnquist of Madison WI to help get us through this pandemic. It’s Day 4 Wild Edible/Medicinal Plant…
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The following provides supplemental information for our main article entitled Paleo Versus Vegetarian Diets: Ancestral Lifestyles In Comparison co-written by Kim Chisholm and friends Clay & Ragan Masterson. It is the result of the research and experience Clay & Ragan have garnered over a decade of living a paleo lifestyle, and that Kim has learned…
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The following article is co-written by friends Clay & Ragan Masterson and Kim Chisholm. It is the result of the research and experience Clay & Ragan have garnered over a decade of living a paleo lifestyle, and that Kim has learned as a vegetarian. It is also based on a foundation of knowledge many in the field…
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Conservation College Discovers Climate Change Fix Called the thujaplicata (THU-jah-plick-AH-tah), the Conservation College proudly announces on this 48th anniversary of Earth Day, a fully proven apparatus to pull carbon, the element responsible for atmospheric greenhouse effect, out of thin air and sequestering it into the ground for millennia. The Conservation College will begin selling thujaplicatas…
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Unsurprisingly, many people have never even heard of pit cooking. Getting our food that close to dirt is enough to make anyone uncomfortable, and with the invention of indoor ovens, pit cooking has become widely ignored in our culture. Lately though, there has been a resurgence of similar outdoor cooking trends, including La Caja China…
Syrups are a wonderful way to take herbal medicine. They are satisfyingly sweet, with honey (most common), or other substitutes such as sugar, maple syrup, or vegetable glycerin combined with concentrated herbal extracts. Good for both children and adults, syrups are used to treat a variety of symptoms and ailments such as colds, flu and…
Here at Wolf Camp, we get a lot of questions about Stinging Nettle. It is awesome that so many people are interested in it! It is truly an amazing plant. So, we decided to compile a list of the most frequently asked questions, so that others can learn to use and appreciate Nettle as well….
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Here in the Pacific Northwest, we live in a rich and varied ecosystem. Our temperate rain forests are host to a wide variety of plants, many of which the Native people learned how to use for food, medicine, technology, craft, ceremony, and more. The forests in our bio-region are dominated by Sitka Spruce, Western Hemlock,…
In my humble (and perhaps a bit plant-biased) opinion, Stinging Nettle is one of the most amazing plants in the Pacific Northwest. Here at Wolf Camp & the Wolf College, we consider Nettle to be one of the top 10 most important survival plants, with a variety of uses such as food, technology (rope, craft,…
I’ve already talked a little bit about my love for Stinging Nettle (with Nettle Shampoo and Nettle Tea), but I’ve been waiting to share one of my most favorite wild edible recipes: Caramelized Stinging Nettle Chips, or what I like to call ‘Kettle Nettle.’ We first made these by accident during one of Wolf Camp’s…
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Tinctures are a favored method of extracting medicinal properties from plants. They are one of the oldest herbal preparations, created and used thousands of years ago, and are still widely used today. What is a Tincture? A tincture is a concentrated herbal extract that uses alcohol as the solvent. To understand what a tincture is,…
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