The arts of our ancestors are known to many as primitive skills. We’ve been learning, practicing and teaching them for almost 2 decades. In particular we love hide tanning, basketry, foraging and primitive cooking, plus fire making and the spiritual aspects of rewilding.
So, you’ve gotten your hands on a deer skin and you want to turn it into leather. This is an exciting moment! We’re going to walk you through how to tan a hide, naturally, in 10 steps with the wet-scrape brain tanning method. Using all natural materials and getting a hide velvety soft and pliable […]
The warm light of a fire is at once calming and exhilarating. That’s because, deep in our bones, we feel how essentially human it is to sit around a fire: We watch the flames and smoke dance, while listening to the crackle of transformation. Indeed, fire turns wood into heat and light, campsites into welcoming […]
Natalie Bogwalker’s Life Changing Experience at the Wild Roots Community For five years, Wild Abundance founder and director Natalie Bogwalker lived at the Wild Roots Community. Her time there changed her life, and inspired her to share primitive living and homesteading skills with the wider world. Here we interview her about her life at Wild Roots […]
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