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Waste paper (I only use unbleached for this purpose) can be inundated with grease, corded together, and used as such.

Anyone who lives in a climate where birches grow is blessed with a nearly infallible firestarter that is peeling off of the bark of trees!

What I typically do, is the old fashioned get a flame, add lots of little dry twigs or wood shavings, then some bigger twigs, etc.

Pine is a very good tree for small kindling, as well as dried-down herbaceous stalks. If you find standing stalks those are best because they haven’t been in contact with the ground. Taller grasses work too—if you have switchgrass, timothy, indiangrass, bluestems, miscanthus, reed-canary, etc. they often are sturdy enough to remain aloof from the ground.

Garlic mustard stems actually make good kindling as well—you could get a lot of them and bundle them together. They are very dry and aired out by winter-time.

For me it is mostly muscle memory… once you know the notes, and the chords, it becomes intuitive, because the melody follows the shape of the chord. If ot doesn’t something may sound off. (Or maybe you want it to sound off?) But usually if they want you to play chords they will say what chord. If they don’t, it is up to you to make or not make any chord shape that fits.

Everyone gives birth
To their own mother, the Earth.
How strange the world is!

Endless in its gifts
Is Dung, the savior of life
Without which we’d starve.

Many native peoples of the plains built Earth Lodges.  I didn’t connect it until now, but they  confuse anthropologists because historically, earth bermed and pit houses are normally used seasonally in winter, and probably functioned as tornado protection.

I was wondering what kind of situation are you thinking of in regards to this, if there is any?

My thought is that usually the body understands how much of every nutrient it needs and feels hungry without it, except in the case of psychological derailments like stress. So any much prolonged feeling of being hungry and specifically unsated, I theorize, would be unsustainable in the long term and lead to poor health.

What about chestnuts? They fill the same nutritional role as grains; they are easy to grow and process. I eat acorns partly because there are no chestnuts around, and they are fattier, but they do require extensive soaking. Otherwise these two nuts are amazingly simple and easy to grow and use, and fill the role of grains.

For reference I think the first video (the king’s forest) was played with a high G.

How would you check the calories for foraged foods wbich often are difficult to find nutritional information on? Is “this looks like 1200 calories” enough evidence?

Also what is meant by “foraged food type”? Is this species, genus? Or is it more like root vegetable, shoots, greens, berries, seeds, etc?