Primitive Technology and Wilderness Living


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Skills Index

Why would I want to learn sustainable living and survival skills?  
What are the most important basic survival skills to learn?
How can I get started?

Having received guidance in any one particular pursuit of knowledge, an apprentice can gain more knowledge from a few short minutes of personal experience within that particular realm of knowledge than is possible to gain from a mountain of information imparted over many weeks.
Theun Mares, The Mists of Dragon Lore, p193.

Please read the legal section and disclaimer before attempting any of the skills or practises shown in this website.

Plant Foods

Overview
Family and Comunity Farming
Get started with learning plant foods - make yourself a task list (new page, not fully complete)
List of Plants for the Blue Mountains (and Sydney)
Weeds

Animal Foods

Overview
Figure Four Trap
Example task list under construction

Fire

Overview
Example task list under construction

Cordage

Overview
Example task list under construction