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?…
Join us as we celebrate the start of Earth Week by setting up our portable solar array for the season, something that can be done with new equipment for the equivalent cost of one month’s power bill, or less if you search Craigslist and other sources for used equipment and batteries. Our goal is to…
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Live! Beekeeper Dave Dempsey installs HONEY BEES at Wolf Camp’s Blue Skye Farm. They were shipped in today from the Pierce County Bee Keepers Association who arrived back from California this very morning. We’ll also check back with the MASON BEES which are rocking and rolling. It’s part of our “You Healthy? Go Outside!” Evening…
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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Join us today for an introduction to the permaculture design of Blue Skye Farm, Mulching Lesson & Community Sidewalk Garden Installation. It’s part of our “You Healthy? Go Outside!” Evening Broadcasts – Family Friendly Music & Earth Skills Activities with Kim & Chris Chisholm.
Join us today for a deep dive into Mason Bees and how they pollinate the Blue Skye Farm Orchard. It’s part of our “You Healthy? Go Outside!” Evening Broadcasts – Family Friendly Music & Earth Skills Activities with Kim & Chris Chisholm. We’ll end today with the song “Lean On Me” in honor of Bill…
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Join us today for an “Amphibian Hunt” following the path of water from our roof, through rain barrels, rain garden, bioswale, pond, creek, and river to the sea. It’s part of our “You Healthy? Go Outside!” Evening Broadcasts – Family Friendly Music & Earth Skills Activities with Kim & Chris Chisholm. We’ll end today with…
Meet Kim’s 9-Year-Old Chickens of Blue Skye Farm! Moonbeam, Josephine, Junebug, Cassiopeia, Carolina are the sole survivors of various avian ailments that afflict laying hens. Hear what the results of 20 necropsies have revealed, and learn how Kim has protected them from predators all these years, while also letting them free range to fertilize our…
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 we’ll “wrap” things up around the campfire, with Kim demonstrating how to “splice” additional material into your rope so it can be as long as you want, plus how to “double reverse wrap” it to make it twice as thick. Then we’ll show you how to make and use homemade tongs – a fun…
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 collect water from natural springs, find plants to use as toilet paper, and discuss how to use the “toilet in the woods” with environmental consciousness. We’ll end with the inspirational song “I Choose You To Walk Into The Forest” by Leslie Lightfall to help get us through this pandemic. It’s Day 5 –…
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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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Today we tour the Blue Skye Farm greenhouse Kim prepared, sharing ideas for how to start seeds, then we’ll look at our compost system, overwintering garden plants, and how prepare old potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, and other staples straight from the grocery store into the ground.
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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This article is based on the Conservation College subsistence fishing curriculum developed by Master Fisherman, Lead Instructor & Wild Chef Charlie Borrowman. Join us at our next fishing workshop, usually scheduled in mid June. Many people view fishing as a recreational past time, but at the Conservation College, we are a bit more pragmatic. It’s…
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