Food Falling From Trees!

October 21, 2010

We are super excited to be hosting a class this fall on the amazing acorn! I have made acorns a part of my diet for several years now because they are so highly nutritious. Best of all, they are free for the taking. If you have ever picked up an acorn to taste and wondered [...]

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Free Class! From Rawhide to Buckskin

October 3, 2010

Free Work/Play Shop: From Rawhide to Buckskin Join ReWild Eugene Saturday, October 9th from 9am to 3pm for a hands on playshop on turning rawhide into soft, supple buckskin. We will be working with several deer hides and one huge elk hide. Folks are welcome to come all day or just for an hour. Be [...]

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Fall Harvesting in Eastern Oregon

September 17, 2010

Visiting home is always such a bittersweet occasion, but the older I get the sweeter it seems and the less bitter the bite. I grew up in a town very opposite from Eugene – geographically and mentality wise. Baker City is in fact not in California as most people presume but rather is nearly as [...]

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Shelter Building for Dummies

August 19, 2010

Recently I was looking around at some of the various resources available on primitive shelter building and I was really frustrated by the way that most schools, websites, instructors and books present the topic of shelter. What I observe is that most of these sources (with the notable exception of Thomas J Elpel’s Participating in [...]

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Herbal First Aid Kit – July First Aid Plant Series

July 29, 2010

A couple months ago Matt (my husband) approached me with another one of his ‘wild hairs’ and said “I want to hike 100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail in July – wanna come?” Now, for Matt this was a very simple, easy hike because in 2005 he was able to hike more 1,700 miles [...]

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Wilderness Survival Series Starts Tomorrow

June 29, 2010

Tomorrow is the first class in the 2010 Wilderness Survival Series. We will be working on fire. I expect to cover the basics of collecting materials, constructing fires, and utilizing fires and then we will try to get everyone a successful bowdrill fire. Two hours is really fast to go from beginner to first success [...]

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June First Aid Plant: Plantain Plantago spp.

June 9, 2010

I just spoke with a friend of mine who lives in Texas and is the mother of a young boy. She told me that she had just taken her son to the doctor for several very infected spider bites and was prescribed strong antibiotics. I gave her some unsolicited advice that I believe every parent [...]

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New Survival Classes

June 8, 2010

Our survival classes have a new format. To make it more convenient for students we have broken up our survival classes in Eugene in to a series of focused topics. Take one class that you are interested in or take the whole series. Plus this series features a survival overnight to test the skills you [...]

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New Free Clinic in June

May 8, 2010

Our last couple of clinics at REI in Eugene were a great success, thanks to everyone who attended. We have just scheduled another free clinic at REI on June 23rd at 7 pm. The subject is survival. You can register directly through REI by visiting www.rei.com/stores/43 or by calling 541-465-1800. Hopefully I will see you [...]

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Can you really eat nettles raw?

April 21, 2010

Our half-day class on Nettles for Food and Medicine is May 8th. Check it out.

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