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Botany Bonanza
4 Books + 2 Games. Save $42!
Do you want to learn plants by the thousands?
Imagine encountering a plant you've never before seen, yet instantly recognizing it. That's the magic and power of the patterns method of plant identification.
Related plants have similar characteristics for identification and often similar uses. Learn to identify plant families according to their common features, and you will instantly recognize other family members as you encounter them, even when traveling thousands of miles away from home.
For example, plants of the Mustard family have 4 petals plus 6 stamens (4 tall and 2 short). Stamens are the male part of the flower, which is easy to remember because they always "stay men." If you find a flower with this combination, then you know it is a member of the Mustard family, and it is edible, typically as a spicy addition to a salad. There are more than 3,000 plants in the Mustard family, so you have just learned to identify 3,000 edible plants across six continents.
Want to learn more?
Start with the basics by reading Shanleya's Quest: A Botany Adventure for Kids Ages 9 to 99 to learn to identify 45,000 plants to the correct families. Play the Shanleya's Quest Patterns in Plants Card Game to nurture your instant recognition skills with fun games like Memory, Slap Flower, Crazy Flowers, Wildflower Rummy, and Shanleya's Harvest.
Take your plant identification skills to the next level with Shanleya's Quest 2: Botany Adventure at the Fallen Tree. The book and game will teach you 30,000 more plants, making plant identification fun for people of all ages.
Dive deeper with Thomas Elpel's best-selling book Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification. Then put your skills to the taste with Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat.
Botany Bonanza includes all of these items for one low price. A $126 value now only $84!
Botany Bonanza: 4 books + 2 Games
Shanleya's Quest Book and Game
Shanleya's Quest 2 Book and Game
Botany in a Day
Foraging the Mountain West
A $126 value now for only $84!
Break free from the Machine
"The Machine is everything you have ever known and everything you have ever been told. The Machine is the unconscious collective sum of humanity. It assimilates everything in its path, turning meadows and wildlands into subdivisions and shopping malls. The Machine sucks the life out of children, making them into automatons that work without meaning and consume without purpose."
-Thomas J. Elpel,
Break Free from the Machine
Little actual work is required to provide for most human needs such as shelter, clothing, warmth, food, and water, and even new necessities, such as mobile phones and transportation.
As the total workforce required to sustain society approaches zero, progressively more people are employed to consume and dispose of wealth rather than produce it. Resource scarcity, environmental degradation, and poverty are artificially created as side effects of the effort to keep people busy pretending to work.
Are you ready to break free from the machine?
Learn how to eliminate job dependency to follow your own dreams in life...
Package Deal: 3 Books + 2 DVDs
One low price of $60
(That's a $60 savings! Half off!)
- Green Prosperity
- Living Homes
- Slipform Stone Masonry DVD
- Build Your Own Masonry Fireplace DVD
- Roadmap to Reality
Wildlife Web
A dynamic ecology strategy game
Eat, mate, reproduce. Avoid being eaten
Created by Thomas J. Elpel - Artwork by Megan Levacy
Special Offer
Buy two games of Wildlife Web and save $20!
Can you forage or hunt for food, find a mate, and raise your young... without becoming someone else's lunch? Welcome to Wildlife Web, a game where you participate in the web of life. Wildlife Web is an exciting, dynamic game of strategy where adventure, luck, and cunning provide hours of fun for family and friends, recommended for ages 9 to 99. [Read more...]
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The Art of Nothing
Wilderness Survival Video Series
DVD companions to the book
Participating in Nature: Wilderness Survival and Primitive Living Skills
Also based on the article The Art of Nothing By Thomas J. Elpel.
Have you ever dreamed of walking out into the woods to survive with nothing but the clothes you have on? You are not alone. In a society that is disconnected from the natural world, many individuals find themselves wondering about what lay beyond the pavement. We know that our ancestors lived by their bare hands and wits alone, but how did they do it? How would you do it? What would it be like to be so connected with the natural world that you could just leave everything behind and walk away into the woods? It is easier than you might expect.
You might think you would need to take a lot of classes and learn a gazillion skills to survive, but the real secret is in knowing how not to need very many skills at all. For example, if you've made a bowdrill fire set with a steel knife, you may wonder how to make a set without a knife. So how do you make a good enough stone knife to work wood as nicely as your steel knife? You don't. By breaking sticks and abrading them on rocks you can make a completely serviceable bowdrill set without the need for a fancy knife at all, as you will see in Volume One of the Art of Nothing Wilderness Survival Video Series.
You won't get a laboratory-style skills demonstration in these videos. Instead, Thomas J. Elpel and his special guests take you camping in the real world and connect the dots, demonstrating how each of these skills are applied together to meet your basic needs of shelter, fire, water, and plant and animal foods. Also included in the videos are wild mushrooms and unique tools and cooking techniques, plus great scenery and wildlife footage, so you really get a multi-dimensional sense of the skills and the place.
Each video takes place in a different setting in different seasons, with Thomas J. Elpel and his guests demonstrating completely different skills to meet their basic needs. [Read More...]
Stone Age Living Skills
Video Classics Series on DVD
The Stone Age Living Skills Video Classic Series brings back to life on DVD some of the best primitive skills videos ever produced on VHS video. Our first three discs in this series feature seven great movies from four top instructors: Jim Riggs, Brian James, Robert Earthworm, and Melvin Beattie. Topics covered include: friction fire with the handdrill and bowdrill, plant fiber cordage, the primitive lifestyle, hide tanning with both wet-scrape and dry-scrape techniques, plus knapping arrowheads and making primitive arrows.
These videos were originally filmed in the late 1980s and early 1990s on analog VHS video. Although the colors have faded some (giving that old time, "classic" look), the video content is good. Some video segments are noticeably pixelated due to the necessary compression to put three to four hours of video on each disc. However, this is a cosmetic detail only that does not detract from the skills content of the videos.
Special Pricing: These seven videos originally sold for $30 each on separate VHS tapes. Now you can own all seven classics on DVD at a great low price. Purchase the three discs separately for $25 each, or order all three discs together for a special low price of $50--a savings of $160 compared to the cost of the original separate videos! [Read More...]
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