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Spiral Straw Bale Cottage in Oregon
Cob and Straw-Bale Cottage in Oregon. So much time has passed since my last blog! I have not been teaching workshops for the past two years because I needed to focus on my own healing and growth. Projects in Oregon, such as this straw bale house, and Florida, such as my art shed building, and…
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Still preparing for this summer!
Hello all! Happy almost summer . . . Above are a couple photos from my Advanced Standard Class at Tom Brown Jr’s Tracker School in New Jersey. These were taken a few years ago, but I’m gearing up for this survival experiment in Oregon so I thought I’d share a couple photos with you.…
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"The Verbally Abusive Relationship" By Patricia Evans : A Book Review
In the last 5-6 years I have been working diligently to over come verbal abuse in all it’s forms in my life through clear communication. For some people, like me, clear communication was blocked by my fear (see the next blog on fear). But now, after coming through such a great learning of life’s lessons,…
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“The Verbally Abusive Relationship” By Patricia Evans : A Book Review
In the last 5-6 years I have been working diligently to over come verbal abuse in all it’s forms in my life through clear communication. For some people, like me, clear communication was blocked by my fear (see the next blog on fear). But now, after coming through such a great learning of life’s lessons,…
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Ended juice fast. Riding bikes with kids.
Well, I came to the conclusion that if I take the time to blog something every day, I cut down too much on the free time I have to actually do the things I want to blog about!! Ha ha! Well, that’s the way it is . . . so I will be blogging occasionally,…
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Juice Fasting With a Little Healthy Cheat
Hibiscus I was so tempted to quit the juice fast today . . . so I went outside and got three Hibiscus blossoms and a handful of Smilex or Bull Briar tendrils, and fried them up with garlic, ginger and salt. That little bit really hit the spot and saved me from quitting! I…
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Eating Dollar Weed. Today I was outside enjoying the sunrise, working on some ideas, not wanting to come inside to make some juice, so I ate some dollar weeds! They tasted all right, but not a taste I can easily describe. The round leaves were tender to eat, but the stems were more fibrous and…
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Juice fasting and wild weed edibles
I decided to start juice fasting yesterday! Gotta get in shape for this summer of wilderness and survival. Then at about 4:30pm I got really hungry and decided to modify the juice fast to include any wild food I pick out of my beautifully lush and weedy yard. That’s one way to give myself an…
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Back to Nature . . . Sleeping Outside!
Hey everybody! Welcome to my blog! Again! It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything here! But now I’m gearing up for a new adventure: SURVIVAL QUESTING THIS SUMMER! I have a lot of work to do in preparation for this! How many of you could walk into the woods and survive lavishly? I know I…
Michele Ballantyne 