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This morning wandering in the mountains provided me with all I could need. To make a fire. To drink water. To make a delicious tea (and antibacterial wash). To make some ornaments. Not the swiss army knife 😁 Thank you mountains ! . #bushcraft #naturalist #nativeskills #survival #wandering #huntergatherer #awareness #wideanglevision #nature #plants #medicine #walkabout #shinrinyoku #naturebathing #connexion #tracking #tracker #skull #goat #lavender #elderflower
Squirrel hide dressed with soap and olive oil and softened by hand. (Roadkill). I wasn't able to conserve his beautiful fur on the hide. Working a small hide is a really good way to learn and practice. I'm super happy with the result ! #hidetanning #tanning #leather #primitiveskills #nativeskills #survival #artandcraft #bushcraft #huntergatherer #craft #squirrel #roadkill #skin #nature #outdoor #outdoolife #awareness #experimentation
Bone needle made out of the cannon of a red deer leg found in the woods with my friend @geoffrey__crespel . . After ruining my favourite knife trying to break the bone I finally understood that I should work it in primitive ways, with stones and flakes. . It takes a lot of time but in this special period we are time rich so why not taking time to work on some long term projects with dedication... . Bone is such a beautiful material, this project opened my eyes on many more possibilities with this resource. . #huntergatherer #nature #bones #animal #deer #reddeer #survival #bushcraft #craft #needle #boneneedle #awareness #shinriyoku #flakes #flint #stone #stoneage #archeology #experimentation #primitiveskills #skills
Make your own medicines. . Good books from renowned herbalists can help you do that, such as the books from Stephen Harrod Bhuner. . Here is a quote from him that I really enjoy as it just puts everything in place : . "Viruses are in fact billions of years old. As such they are exceptionally good at what they do and like all living things they learn as they go, adapting new behaviors along the way. . Plants, in comparison, are only about a billion years old, complex land plants around 300 million years or so. . In contrast our most ancient hominid ancestors are at most 1-2 million years old, our species in the form it has now is only around 35,000 years old. . Western medicine (at a generous estimate) is 200 hundred years old. Its knowledge of viral pathogens and infections is only around 50 years old. Much of that is rudimentary or even incorrect (based as it is on outdated ecological models and medical understandings)." . Plants have been our allies for so long ! Don't underestimate their power. They are incredibly complex beings they are adaptive and clever, learn from them. . #harvest #herbalist #herbs #nature #medicine #huntergatherer #outdoor #outdorlife #nativeskills #survival #bushcraft #naturebathing #forestbathing #awareness #shinriyoku #plants #plantmedicine #elder #sambucusnigra #tinctures #sarscov2 #covid19 #coronavirus
First sheep hide tanned ! Lots of errors, lots of learning as well and in the end it is a very nice soft hide on which I could lay all my back for sleeping in the outdoor or just comfortably sit near the fire. I definitely want to practice more and learn more on that skillset. Hides are a wonderful resource to create with. . @bekeolbers 😉 . #outdoorlife #bushcraft #tanning #braintanning #sheep #leather #wool #survival #skills #crafting #nativeskills #creativity #huntergatherer #nature #outdoor #lifecycle
Finally, confinement gives me the opportunity to tap birch sap this year. . I might have missed it this year due to the tornado of work and in a way I feel that nature forces us to slow down a little. Now we should have a moment to back off from the torments of daily modern life and think about our priorities and make choices for the future in order to avoid jumping right again at the end of confinement in the same crazy lifestyle imposed on us by civilization. It's the right time to rewild and slow down. Consume less and watch, smell, listen, taste more. . Unfortunately not all of us will have the choice to take the best out of the situation but it's worth trying. . Take care . #naturebathing #confinment #nature #survival #tracking #birch #birchsap #sap #spring #bushcraft #healing #herbalism #natureprovides #listen #watch #taste #smell #reconnect #rewild #connection #awareness #illness #civilization #bushcraft