Homestead Survival General Store - Food Dehydrating Books & Supplies. Native Plants, Lawn Alternatives, Landscape Design and Landscaping. Welcome to the PLANTS Database. National Audubon Society. About the Native Plant Network. Ethnobotany Vault : Ethnobotany and Economic Botany.
When Europeans first arrived, in both eastern and southwestern North America north of Mexico, they found people who were practicing agriculture, much of it with crops from Mexico.
Consequently, the use of native wild plants received scant attention. This changed, however, when the Europeans penetrated the areas inhabited by hunters and gatherers. According to R. Survival and zombie. The Open Source Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse. COOKIN' WITH THREE SISTERS. Manataka American Indian Council Introduction This entire section is courtesy of the Oneida Indian Nation who developed an effective program call the Three Sisters Nutrition Project to benefit American Indians suffering from a variety of modern diseases.
"...The lifestyle changes that have occurred among Indian people over the past 200 years have contributed to the high incidence of such disabling diseases as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. Seven Primitive Survival Shelters That Could Save Your Life. How to Make a Two-Strand Cord Many plant materials, including grasses that resist breaking when bent and the inner barks of shrubs and willows, can make strong enough cordage to lash thatching onto shelters. Thin willow wands, flexible capillary tree roots, rawhide cut from animal skins, and sinew strands that encase animal muscle make stronger cord, suitable for snare traps, bowstrings, and bindings. Directions Holding the cordage material between your thumbs and first fingers, twist it to form a kink in the middle. Now twist each half separately in a clockwise direction, then pass them around each other in a counterclockwise direction as shown.
(A strand can be composed of one or more fibers, depending upon the diameter of the cordage material available.)