A reader e-mailed to ask if I could suggest some medicinal wild plants that could be used fresh in the field, without much preparation, in an emergency survival situation. Usually I write about plants that take some amount of time to turn into medicine, so I thought this was a good idea. Here are seven [...]
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Field Medicine for a Survival Situation
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Blackberry, Plantain, Survival, Chickweed, mugwort, yarrow, medicinal wild plants, rose, usnea on December 22, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Urban Survival Strategies from a Forager
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Discovery Channel, learning from animals, Survival on July 15, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Discovery Channel commissioned the following article to publish on JoinTheColony.com, a web site for their urban survival TV show “The Colony.” They asked me, as an urban forager, what strategies I would use to stay alive if a virus struck. Water My first concern would be clean drinking water. If the electricity was out, the [...]
Warm boots make all the difference
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Survival on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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