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Ron's Primitive Skills

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Primitive skills, survival, crafts, flint knapping, camping, hiking, outdoors photography

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  • Update and local "wild" fruit.

    Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 23:09 in edible wild plants

    The fall programs at church are over and I can now finish the acorn article. I'll have the article tomorrow. Meanwhile, I took a bike ride yesterday and spotted a few odd trees at one of my favorite haunts. It turned out to be strawberry tree, Arbutu...

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    Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 18:16 in misc

    The article below is from a forum where I hang out, Bushcraft USA. This pretty much sums it all up.A Bushcrafter Is (Original work by DrGizmojo)A Bushcrafter understands, appreciates, and respects the Natural World. Neither sappy about Nature, nor ar...

  • On hold......

    Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 21:43 in misc

    Everything is on hold. My church is having its annual fall programs and I'm really busy. I'll be picking up where I left off with the acorn article. Right now, I dried them in the oven and put them in the freezer till I have time to grind and leach t...

  • Update 2 on staff

    Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 00:18 in wood working

    The staff is completely dried and by leaving the bark alone there are no cracks. I removed the thick layers of glue from the ends and everything is bone dry. I had it on my balcony and it was low humidity and over 100 degrees for a month so I'm sure ...

  • Acorns part 2

    Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 16:19 in edible wild plants

    This is part 2 of "Gathering and processing acorns for food.The bag contains 20 pounds of acorns from the valley oak. It took me 1 1/4 hour to gather these. Thats a lot of acorns! The tree was a young one and maybe 50 feet high. This is a very good y...

  • Gathering and processing acorns for food part 1

    Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 20:11

    Its that time of the year when the acorn crop starts to fall. This is looking to be a very good year for valley oak, Quercus lobata, acorns. My wife and I were sitting at a local park yesterday and the acorns were falling all around us. These are big...

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