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People, especially in the “Western” world, speak of freedom, yet we are far from free. In the United States, we use more water in one flush of a toilet than many people worldwide use in an entire day for all their cooking, cleaning and drinking needs.

Instant access to water is something that we especially take for granted. We also have unlimited access to clean, drinkable water. I live in what most would call a very rural setting, but even I can hop in my truck and within 30 minutes visit 10 grocery stores or grab takeout from hundreds of different restaurants. Grocery stores give us access to a wide variety of food from around the globe 24 hours a day. We fool ourselves into thinking these bubbles are impervious, when in fact, they are quite fragile. Electricity, automobiles, technology and grocery stores allow us to exist inside bubbles of safety, security and comfort. Learning any self-reliance skill allows you to slowly break free of the systems that we all rely on to provide us with the necessities to maintain our life force.

As the homesteading and foraging coordinator, and a life-long practitioner of wilderness survival and ancient living skills, one of my goals is to provide you with the skills and principles you need to make it through a wilderness survival situation.

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State of survival survival of the fittest wilderness risk