This is going to be a sensible, practical dispatch about making a living and learning to thrive in the modern world, but it starts with a journey into the deep, dark heart of the wild woods, under old growth forest, with cool, quiet air, the caw of a crow, and soft moss underfoot.  Because this is one of the few places left that make sense in a modern world of “consumers” and “consumption,” that seems to be doing it’s darndest to consume all of us. Behind you now! Feel its claws on your shoulders? Do not look at it. Feel its … Continue reading Practical Permaculture: Catching and Storing Energy. And Fighting Vampires.