Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Looking Back

Time goes by fast. We made this recording in 2011. 

 

Aki and Scott

www.caribooblades.com 

 

 My body is aching, my fingers and toes skinned

My face hurts to touch and I can't make fists due to ligament injuries

My spirit is unwavering

Looking forward to getting my Nidan and making knives


Crazy Revealing Times

 

 

 https://aarontgood.podbean.com/e/western-capitalist-imperialism-or-the-globalist-cabal-ae172/

https://rumble.com/v4xbnht-the-whistleblowers-campus-protests-and-the-real-news-network-with-chris-hed.html 

Regards,

Aki and Scott

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Bushcraft and Survival Garden (updated)

 

Dawn in the bush


We live in the bush and have created a garden that was unheard of in these parts. In fact, the old timers thought we were crazy (26 years ago). Cultivating wild flowers, greens and vegetables along with domestic greens and vegetables. Enriching the soil with what is around us, starting apple trees, doing it all by hand with the help from tools we've made. Simply. Leaving a light footprint. 

We live in the "working forest".  Logging, ranching and mining. Consuming.


We call it bushcraft gardening. I suppose you could call it survival gardening because that is how we survive.

diy greenhouse
Our tree limb greenhouse. 150lbs of tomatoes

Since we've been here the winter temperatures have gradually risen. We don't see a week or two of -30 or -40 anymore. When the cold began to move into our cabin anything on the floor froze.   

It might get down there for a few nights now. We might get a week or two between -20...-28 with a -18 in there. Still cold but it's an easier way. How fragile we are.

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We're more relaxed now
. We still live in our 800 sq foot cabin. We would not live anywhere else.

Fruit trees have been difficult but now we have a small orchard. Between moose, deer, bears, voles and mice it has been a challenge.


Honey bees have been emotionally draining because they die from causes we can't control.  We don't raise them now. Instead we've been cultivating our relationship with wild bees. Every year there are fewer. This year we had bumble bees. The 5 or 6 species of wild bees usually pollinating our plants were missing.. We've been using a feather trying to pollinate


Growing our own food has taught us about survival. In between frost, hail, bear, moose and deer, birds, rabbits, mice, voles, bugs, hillbilly pigs, the dreaded free range cattle and the government spraying herbicide over the forest we try to relax. The boreal forest is filled with animals that want almost everything that we grow.
raising children in a healthy environment


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He's a young adult now. 

After a judo tournament he skyped us,

" My body is aching, my fingers and toes skinned

My face hurts to touch and I can't make fists due to ligament injuries 

My spirit is unwavering 



Looking forward to getting my Nidan and making knives".

 

This gardening method is sustainable, organic and has very little impact  except birds, bugs, mice, snakes and worms have never had it better.

healthy food

It's a state of mind going into the wilderness with nothing but seeds and a shovel, an open mind, relaxed and keenly observing your surroundings with a sense of freedom and balance.

tomatoes, ppeppers and garlicEverything around you may have a use for your bush garden. Rocks act like sinks storing heat energy from the sun that can offset cool nights. They are fertilizers slowly giving important nutrients to the soil. They collect and trap water. They can also be protection from animals and cover for others, like toads.
That old stump – do I remove it, or can I plant a garden around it and let it slowly fertilize?
Heat sink rock wall
Rocks picked for a garden wall
now
survival garden

The fence is to keep out free range cows. For 26 years the free range livestock has been the greatest threat to our garden.


Rotten wood has got to be the supreme bush fertilizer adding organic material and fluffing up heavy soil.There are droppings from animals like deer, moose and rabbit which are good "on the spot" fertilizers.

Harvesting what you need with care and never taking more than 1/3 of anything.

wild mushrooms, boletestoad held in hands

Surviving with respect and again, with a light foot step
Those “weeds” or wildflowers – pull them out or cultivate them, let them flower to attract the bees.

If the location of your plot is covered with grass or weeds turn it over and leave it in place. It will decompose and become food for your plants.
fireweed
Fireweed shoots--Excellent greens


  Cultivate dandelions, wild onions, wild parsnip, lambs quarters,

We've been fertilizing by mulching with green grass (before it goes to seed) covered with an inch of sand then covered with rotten wood. We have some chicken manure that we fertilize beans and greens with. After the crop is harvested plant rye grass or Chinese vegetables. When the thick head is 6 to 8 inches high we turn it over.


a toad and our son
a young adult now learning about the city and people. The old timers are dead. It will be our 27th winter. Not much has changed here. We're older and still thriving in the bush. We wonder and ask ourselves.
the lake in nature

Regards,
Aki and Scott

Our business, http://www.caribooblades.com/

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Environmental Health ...Now



solar energy, the nuclear reactor in the sky.


 We have lived off grid in central British Columbia for 26 years. Growing our food, living and using the sun's energy to survive.

bushcraft garden, survival garden

 

Politicians in North America lie, cheat and have no respect for the people. We've been hearing over and over, year in, year out the same talk about what they are going to do about the degradation and corruption facing the planet. A guy comes along with a track record of exemplary work for the environment, throws his hat into the cesspool to help and everyone shits on him. Damn.

Fresh clean air, water, food....and a safe environment.

clean food free of contaminates


If you want to know what  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands for watch and listen to this recording of him speaking at the Seventh annual Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Lecture in Public Health Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, 15 years ago. It was a tribute to him.

Environmental Health and Demnocracy with RFK Jr.

If you want to find out more about the man today watch Math Hoffa's podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0XFMqHu2Ok

Truth is like a swamp.
 

In search for truth.

Regards,

Aki and Scott

www.caribooblades.com