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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Primitive Technology Living
  • Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:46:45 -0400

I'm like you, I want to know things. I want to know every plant, tree, insect, gall, whatever, that is part of my world here. Even with the internet and Google, I haven't been able to find a picture of my gall. That is indicative of some serious biodiversity. I may be looking at some indigenous localized wasp species or maybe there is something unique about my soil that causes the tree to make a different kind of gall. I cut it open, and inside I can see pulpy striations like the striations you see on a larger scale in the apple oak gall.
Anyway, you never know when or how such knowledge might be useful.

Bev

eureka AT hctc.net wrote:
Thanks, Bev. Well, it is encouraging that it can be done. I think all of us homesteaders could make do if we had to, and with some infrastructures in place it might even be a little more comfortable than her entirely wild existence.--Sage

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:08:50 -0400
EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

eureka AT hctc.net wrote:
Once, about a decade ago, when traveling in New Mexico, a friend set me up to meet and spend the day with a woman who would teach me about their edible plants. I was expecting to meet another botanist. I drove t

That is so cool, Sage. I would have loved to have been there.
It makes the point that those who would survive the best ITSHTF are
already disconnected.

Bev

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