January 25 2008
More Articles Related to BlogThe Chaga Tinder Fungus
Today I posted a Survival Topic about the Chaga mushroom, also known among survival experts as the “true tinder fungus”. This post is slanted toward the uses of Chaga for health restoration and disease prevention, for which it has been used for thousands of years. Being so high in anti-oxidants and phytochemicals, the Chaga could very well be classified as a magic mushroom when it comes to preserving your health.
Especially if you are fortunate enough to live in northern latitudes where the Chaga mushroom grows, I invite you to read the article and keep an eye out for the highly prized true tinder fungus the next time you are in the forest.
Culled from the Internet
Meat Preservation Recipe
An old cookbook from the 1890’s gives a recipe for a meat marinade that allows the meat to remain edible for a couple of weeks:
- 1/4 pint Wine Vinegar or Cider Vinegar
- 1/2 pint Red Wine
- 1 Pinch Nutmeg
- 1 Bayleaf
- 1 sprig Thyme
- 1 tsp Brown Sugar
- 1 12 tsp salt
Assorted Quotations
"Do not mess with the forces of nature, for thou art small and biodegradeable!"
"We stand for what we stand on!" Edward Abbey Quote from the Monkey Wrench Gang
"Whether you think you can or you cannot, you are correct".
"We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children."
Walk softly and carry a big stick.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
- Greek Proverb
The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.
- Chinese Proverb
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
- Edward Abbey
The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please. They have been given to us in trust, and we must account for them to the generations which will come after us and audit our accounts.
- William T. Hornaday
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
We abuse the land because we regard it as a community belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
- Aldo Leopold
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
- Sir John Lubbock
Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
-Walt Whitman
We climb not to conquer the mountain but ourselves.
- Sir Edmund Hillary
Look not back with regret, nor forwards with fear, but around you with wonder
I see
A Possibility
- Ron Fontaine
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