Your Survival Hacks

Survival Gardening: The Backyard Homestead

With raised bed gardens, high density planting, and some planning small yards can be converted to generate food for your family.

Quarter Acre can harvest:

1400 eggs

2000 pounds of vegetables

280 pounds of pork

50 pounds of wheat

60 pounds of fruit

75 pounds of nuts

Vintage Bushcraft Kit. 🏕🔥🎒

Perhaps some of you more seasoned bushcrafters can help me with identifying a few of these vintage bushcraft tools? The website I found this photo on below didn’t seem to have much in the way of a key / legend. I’ve added numbers and managed to identify most of them myself, but those with ❓ are still unknown. http://bit.ly/2Eb3PuV

1. Fjallraven Vintage 20L Backpack 2. TOPS Scandi Woodsman Bushcraft Survival Knife 3. Gransfors Bruks Scandinavian Forest Axe 4. Scandinavian Reindeer Antler Ferro Rod 5. Arnaud Drawknife 6. Arnaud Drawknife Sheath 7. Mora 164 Spoon Carving Knife 8. Mora 106 Wood Carving Knife 9. Wooden Collapsible Buck Saw (Thank you Instagram user stevan_smith) 10. Lansky Tool Sharpening Puck 11. Brass Hudson Bay Tinderbox 12. Brass Spark Wheel Fire Starter and Waterproof Tinder Container 13. Vintage Aluminum Camp Cooking Pot 14. Sewing Awl 15. Vintage Sewing Kit 16. Iisakki Järvenpää Kauhavan Hevospää Puukko 2156 17. Brass Sundial Compass, 1-¾", 1750s Era 18. Brass Hunting Snare Wire 19. Cast Iron Skillet 20. Charcloth Tin 21. Boatswain Whistle (Thank you Tumblr user @insidiousink ) 22. Brass Tinder Tube (Thank you Instagram user woodsmon) 23. Scandinavian Kuksa Cup 24. 18th Century Iron Hewing Log Dogs or Campfire Trivet (Thank you Tumblr users insidiousink and coralinethesapphicfantastic for the conjectures) ❓ 25. Vintage Military-style Canvas Bedroll 26. Jute Rope 27. Candle 28. Jute Twine 29. Nails 30. Wooden Spoon 31. Steel Snare Wire 32. C Shape Steel Striker 33. Glass Bottle with Swing Top 34. Leather Bound Journal 35. Leather Pouch

Birds can be much easier to trap than mammals and should be among your first targets for a meal.

Ojibwa Bird Pole

Set this trap in a large clearing where birds will naturally seek it out as a landing place.

Step One: Sharpen both ends of a 6-foot pole and drill a small hole near one end. Drive the other end into the ground until it is secure.

Step Two: Cut a 6-inch-long stick that will loosely fit into the hole. Tie a rock to a thin cord and pass the cord through the hole in the pole, then make a slip noose that drapes over the perch.

I feel thatwe as humans have lost much in being so disconnected from the lives of our ancestors. There’s a sense of power and control that comes from providing your own needs. I don’t just mean taking long walks in the woods, thats a good start. I mean setting aside a two to three day stretch of time and dedicate it to living as basicly as you can. Simple structured shelter, a fire you built yourself, food you either found or caught and cooked, water you gathered and purified. Learning and applying these skills is rewarding in a way one cant describe, therapeutic even.