Living off the land
This 1955 Survival film was
made by the US Navy to educate pilots on how
to live off the land in north temperate regions but has some
considerable entertainment value to the modern day homesteader.
I enjoyed the drawings of
animal traps and the narrator's casual tone, even though he seems to
think turtles are amphibians.
The section on edible insects
taught me that caterpillars are not good to eat but grubs are often the
safer bet.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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thanks! makes me nostalgic!
Two Little Savages, by Ernest Thompson Seton, publ. sometime before WW 1, with the author's drawings. And those cardboard dividers with woods lore inside the Nabisco Shredded Wheat boxes, back in the 50s--Your videos hark me back to these. I hope you can try out the wireless phone options. Have no idea on how they might be built. Do you?
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