Fernando “FerFAL” Aguirre and Lessons from the 2001 Collapse of Argentina
What’s it like to live through a collapse? It’s hard to imagine something you’ve never experienced, so when someone who …
Autumn Olive
Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata), also known as Japanese silverberry, is a nitrogen fixing shrub or small tree that carries a great abundance of juicy small fruits…
Perennial Kale
Perennial kale (Brassica oleracea ramosa) is a low-maintenance perennial vegetable that is tough, productive and good to eat…
Good King Henry
Good King Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus), also called Poor-man’s Asparagus, is most easily described as a perennial spinach. It has been grown as a vegetable in cottage gardens for hundreds of years, although today it’s…
Kousa Dogwood
The Kousa Dogwood (Cornus kousa), also called Japanese Dogwood or Chinese Dogwood, s a deciduous tree growing up to 10 metres tall and 6 metres wide. It’s a much appreciated ornamental tree that gets heavily laden with delicious late summer fruits…
Pawpaw
The Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is a patch-forming understory tree that has the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States. The Cherokee and many other tribes used the pawpaw fruit for food…
American Groundnut
The American groundnut (Apios Americana), or hopniss, is a climbing perennial plant from the woodland edges of North America. It’s related to the peanut and produces new shoots each year from numerous underground tubers, these new shoots twining around any supports they can find…
Water Contamination and The Gravity Fed Water Filter
In the United States, we often take for granted the abundance of available freshwater supplies. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, or …
Bartering – When Fiat Money Is Not Enough
In 1913, the United States dollar started down a long, steady road of decline. This was the year when America …
Cody Wilson and the Ghost Gunner
Back in 2013 you may remember hearing stories about 3D-printed guns. The technology has continued to progress, largely spearheaded by …
Carob
“The carob, the food of the Prodigal Son, of Mediterranean people, of the Mediterranean farm animals, and of the calves and dogs of America, also fed the cavalry of Wellington in his Peninsular campaign and that of Allenby in Palestine during the World War…
Elderberry
The Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) is a small tree growing to 6m (20 ft) high, bearing large bunches of edible flowers (raw/in drinks) and black fruits (raw or cooked)…
