From digging her own clay and hauling non-river stones, to lacing boughs, to recycling concrete blocks, to digging simple ‘grave’ …
4 tips that will help you to identify plants and fungus
Looking to identify more plants and mushrooms this year? Here are a few strategies that may improve your skills. Here …
Primitive Culture: How to Cook an Egg in a Potato (Purple Yam, actually!)
A great guide from Cambodia on cooking in a fire pit. Here he bakes eggs in a hard potato-like yam. …
Scientists are breeding super-nutritious crops to help solve global hunger
A week or so ago I covered the amazing bio-agricultural chemist, Norman Borlaug, and how he saved India from staving …
One huge reason the Population Bomb didn’t kill us
Remember when we were all going to die? And when if you didn’t eat your dinner your mom said “There’s …
How to catch fish in a trap made from twigs
This Cambodian shows us how to catch fish in a river using naturally occurring resources. He uses what look like …
Stachys byzantine – The miracle plant that kids can grow
Wooly Lamb’s Ear, (Stachys byzantine), has been used for centuries as a medicinal herb. It’s so easy to grow that …
Bear poops in wood – on Hunter!
Because bears pooping on people from trees are just funny.
Where are all the turkey eggs?
All those turkeys. And never an egg. Yet turkey eggs contain most of the same nutrients as chicken eggs. The …
Deep Fried Turkey Accidents
Because we all love watching things go BANG! if no one is hurt.
William Shatner on deep-fried turkey safety
Back in 2011, State Farm teamed up with William Shatner to produce a short video dramatizing an actual accident where …
How to make butter.
Why is this so satisfying to watch? Want to make your own butter? Remember: 1 quart (32 ounces) cream yields …
Would you cook Thanksgiving dinner in the dishwasher?
We’ve all heard of the woman who poached a salmon on the top shelf of the dishwasher and the episode …
Farmers for America. How change is coming to our food system.
This Mike Rowe narrated documentary traces the extraordinary changes coming to America’s food system as more and more consumers flock …
VIDEO: Could you catch this MONSTER rattlesnake?
Do you have what it takes to be a rattlesnake wrangler? It takes skill, guts, and a few choice tools. …
Here are the seven books you need to read this month
I’m a big believer in trying to go deep in subjects as often as you can. Cal Newport’s fantastic book Deep …
Is roasting tomatoes the best thing to happen to sauce?
And it’s easy. Just put your fresh tomatoes in a cake or roasting pan, smother with olive oil, season with salt …
Chicken of the Woods – Yours for the taking
(Laetiporus sp.) is a choice edible mushroom which usually grows on standing or fallen dead wood. In this video, the …
Stinging Nettle — The Most Nutritious Plant On Earth?
Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) is a plant whose edible, medicinal, and utilitarian benefits typically surpass those of other wild species. …
How to make a Dutch bucket (Hydroponics DIY)
The Dutch bucket is perhaps the most commonly used container for holding plants in an indoor growing system. Tomato, cucumber, …
Canning at home
It’s fruit season. Now’s a great time to discover the delights of home canning, wherever you live. For a great …
This Survival Food is One of the Highest Sources of Protein
So, by now, Guys and Gals, there are many factions to prepping and they all have their time and place, …
Coffee drinkers relax! It’s basically medicine
TAKEAWAY key fact: In one of the largest studies ever on the topic, researchers followed over 500,000 people in 10 European …
LOL: PETA calls out bacon, gets fried
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals isn’t known for being a particularly smart, or even rational, group. That deranged …
‘Murica! How to cook bacon on an assault rifle
Guy cooks bacon in the most manly way possible… on a gun… Oh, I changed the video – this one …
VIDEO: Texas ranchers battle 10 foot gator
Roping a gator is just like roping cattle, except you aim lower. At least that’s what three Hawkins, Texas cattle …
VIDEO: Watch these brilliant boys catch big snakes with a plastic tube
Here are three young men with a future in engineering. Watch as they build a snake trap using a plastic …
The tiny organism that could feed the planet
Scientists in California hope genetically engineered micro-algae could be the food of the future, and they’ve taken a step closer …