This old woodscraft book is full of basic information that most people would know – unless you’ve grown up in the last 50 years in a city. It covers everything from useful knots to sharpening an ax to reading a map. Basically it’s a lot of what you would have learned in the Boyscouts if they hadn’t gone soft and stopped taking kids into the woods. A lot of you preppers out there are thinking about doing some woodsrunning after SHTF even though you’ve never been in the woods longer than a weekend so you’d better start learning some basic skills:

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Trapper Jack is a YouTuber with a channel dedicated to woods loafing and survival related topics. This video is a good overview of some wild edibles with plenty of description to help you out. Obviously you need to do some real research before making the leap into foraging, including classes if they’re available in your area. Otherwise I recommend books by Samuel Thayer like Nature’s Garden and The Forager’s Harvest and sites like Rebecca Lerner’s First Ways. This video however is a great intro into foraging from a guy who really knows what he’s doing.

The video covers the difference between wild garlic and wild onions, edible violet, prickly lettuce,yellow curly dock, sow thistle and more:

This old Paladin Press title was uploaded to Scribd and contains a lot of very useful information – and some graphic pictures. It’s a good primer for taking care of first aid for those of you who aren’t going to take EMT courses. Enjoy:

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