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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] was british- now Bev's realization
  • Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:45:52 -0500



Lynda wrote:
I think we need another name for Bob's kind of "survivalist." Back in the 70s I knew, and was recruited by, a bunch of *real* survivalists. They weren't about fear, hoarding, guns and ammunition. They were about being able to survive using their own talents and the talents of those they surrounded themselves with. Yes, they had guns, to hunt. They asked my best friend and I to join them and if we weren't interested in joining them (we weren't), they wanted us to teach them the stuff we knew -- canning, weaving, dying using plants, etc., candle making, soap making, butchering, gardening, etc (which we did for about a year). The guns they knew as most of the men were retired military (Green Berets, Special Forces and a couple of SEALS). They got a local farrier to teach them how to shoe a horse and how to work in metals. Terra and I hooked them up with a friend who was a potter and he taught them how to find the right clays and how to throw dishes and bowls. I got one of Elsie Allen's granddaughters to show them how to find and cure and weave baskets.

They bought a couple of thousand acres and moved up in the Sierra foothills. Last I heard, they were living completely off the grid, doing sustenance gardening and living off the land.


EXACTLY!!!
Finally, I feel like someone gets it!
When I say I am a survivalist, I mean I am one of those people who wants to make cordage from vines, learn to make fire using ice, etc. etc. There is a magazine called Wilderness Way that I subscribe to and LOVE. It has nothing to do with fear, but everything to do with testing yourself and nature...

Bev

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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race"

~ Calvin Coolidge




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