Going Native.

Paleotechnics is the Institute of Obsolescence July VIP.

Tamara Wilder is the kind of specialist we honor and recognize!

Please visit her site. She offers a full array of educational opportunities for schools and private parties.

Paleotechnics!

Tamara wearing tanned deerskin dress.

Wild foods collection.

Stringmaking.

Feeling Cultured?

I feel like making yogurt...
mostly because we have so many Nancy's containers building up around the house.
We reuse them for many things, but have still hit our tipping point.

Plain Yogurt is simple and healthy, and even some lactose intolerant people can eat it since the process involves the yogurt cultures consuming the lactose in the milk.

Most historical accounts attribute yogurt to the Neolithic peoples of Central Asia around 6000 B.C.. Read more.


If you learn best by reading, check out this site with yogurt making instructions. The technique is slightly different from the video which uses a single pot boiling method.


If you are more visual, check out this video.

I will report back on my experiments. I am sensing homemade fro-yo this Summer...

Gifts: Part 3

Mancala: the oldest board game on earth. The ancient pharaohs played it. It is the game of kings and queens.

You may have seen it in I Heart Huckabees. Mancala hour.

Enjoy your own Mancala hour, or set up a friend.

Go on, sow some seeds...