Earth Skills

                                                                EARTH SKILLS by Dude McLean

  The concept of the tribe was lost once we started to farm and live in one place. The hunter gatherer life was over, and the skills involved died out leaving only a few elders to remember. Once they died so did the wisdom of a hunter gatherer lifestyle. If you are among the lucky smart ones you may have taken some plant walk classes with Christopher Nyerges. Count yourselves as being part of a tribe, if only for a few hours. This is what it used to take to eat well, the tribe working together gathering the gifts from the earth with a leader showing the way, some might even say a medicine man. Earth wisdom in a classic setting led by a true elder who has gained the wisdom of what it offered in the dirt.

 Very few have the deep level of knowledge of plants as my Friend Christopher owns. I have been on his plant walks for 25 years at least. He is honest and humble about what he knows. When on the plant walk as he teaches and harvests plants, you are taking part in an age-old tradition as ancient as it gets. You are a member of the tribe or even a pack if you will, I consider it a gift to be a part of the walks every time I go, and it never gets old.

 So all the skills and wisdom is not lost but it is rare. Now track Christopher down and take a class or two and start to learn the plants for your life.