Tannya Yasta

Editing this caption now that this post is trending: Yes, I know this one was not fully ripe. No, I do not sell seeds (I just give out free information). Yes, you can Google if these grow in your area.😁 Thanks! I’ve been on a maypop kick lately🍈. When you can easily transplant a native species of vine that grows quickly, helps native pollinators like bees and wasps, and gives you delicious fruit… I’m not sure why more people aren’t doing this!🙌 I once lived next to a large passion fruit vineyard in Uganda, and it’s so cool to use the comparable North American species that grows heartily in the roadside ditches and along the sides of my garden fence. Keep an eye out for Maypop on your next hike, it’s delicious and nutritious.#maypop #passionfruit #foraging #foragedfood #wildedibleplants #wildedible #usefulplants #forageusa #earthskills #wearenature #helppollinators #nativehabitat #eattheweeds #outdoorarkansas #arkansasoutdoors #outdooroklahoma #oklahomaoutdoors #goferal #sustainability

An eye catching, easy to ID plant that you can eat AND use as insect repellent? What a cool world we live in! It’s almost as if nature freely gives us many of the solutions that Industry tells us we need to buy. I’ll keep my cash and avoid the damaging Deet.😅 I have no chigger bites on my feet, but plenty up my legs where I didn’t rub the leaf juice (I don’t often wear insect repellent anyway). Callicarpa Americana is native to North America, from Texas east to New Jersey. As always, forage responsible and sustainably.🪻#foraging #usefulplants #naturalsolutions #insectrepellent #beautyberry #natureprovides #earthskills #rewilding #edibleweeds #medicinalplants #plantmedicine #wearenature #forager #oklahomaoutdoors #arkansasoutdoors #wildhumans

A little bit of recent leatherwork. Simple, but effective and tailored specifically to my compact CCW needs. I won’t tell anyone how to live their life, but I will say that I’ve been through enough shady situations that I’m grateful to live in a country where good people can still defend themselves and their families from those who do not value the lives or rights of others. #leatherwork #selfsufficient #beprepared #situationalawareness #leatherworking #leathercraft #beagoodhuman

This design is a combination of several traditional pack frames I saw online, with the addition of the corner braces under the support plate… reminiscent of my timber frame construction days. The lightweight nature of sandbar willow (Salix interior), combined with its high tensile strength, make it ideal for these projects. I’ll post the second video soon, and it’ll show the rawhide and sinew wraps and yucca cordage webbing. I’m loving this so much that I already have another design rattling around in my thick skull. #earthskills #rewilding #packframe #bushcraftpack #oldways #woodcrafts #woodcrafting #woodcarving #diygear #willow #willowwood #traditionalskills #homemade #slowcraft #lessplastic #sustainableliving #makeityourself

When times get tough, being able to provide for yourself and your family is worth more than gold. Cool tech is awesome… knowing what to do if your cool gadgets fail is even better. Don’t forget it. #earthskills #flintknappingskills #flintknapping #obsidian #preform #biface #primitivehuntingtools #primitivetechnology #selfreliance #wildcrafting #wildcraft #obsidian #primitivearchery #tradbow #feralhuman #undomesticated #ancestralskills #oldways #wildhumans #knapping

A double eye infection in the forest that I fought for a week by rubbing hand sanitizer in my eyes. A debilitating bout with giardia for a month after returning home. Fungal infections on my back, and razor grass cuts all over my body which turned into raging dermatitis that I fought for months after I left Madagascar. NONE of these could keep me from going back to this wonderful country, its stunning threatened forests, or its amazing people. There isn’t a single ecosystem left on earth that isn’t being negatively impacted by mankind, and we’re all complicit in the destruction. #reforestation #landscaperestoration #rewilding #forestrestoration #biodiversity #climateaction #begoodhumans #fieldwork #wearenature #madagascar #changeforgood #plantingtrees #ecosystemrestoration #habitatrestoration #travelcommunity #travelmadagascar #rainforests #forestlovers #edenpeopleplanet

Thank you for sharing him with a world that desperately needed him and his mission. We don’t take it lightly. #steveirwin #steveirwinday #conservation #wildlifechampion #rewilding #childreninnature #wearenature #wildernessimmersion #natureeducation #wildlifeeducation #animallovers #crocodilehunter #supportlocalwildlife #raisethemwild

I’m convinced that 80% of practicing primitive living skills comes down to sourcing ideal materials. When I’m out in the woods, I always keep an eye out for old eastern red cedar logs like this. Even if I don’t collect hearth boards from them, I pin them in my “mental map” for future reference. Not shown here (in the interest of brevity), I also place back any sections of wood that I didn’t use, in order to minimize my impact on local wildlife habitats and ecological functions. Take only what you need, and I recommend doing it far off the trail in areas with minimal impact where you can legally collect natural materials. Forage and scavenge responsibly, and let me know down in the comments if you have any friction fire questions!🪵🔥 #earthskills #rewilding #frictionfireligting #handdrillfire #foraging #scavenging #selfsufficiency #oldways #feralhumans #firewithsticks #ancestralskills #wearenature #goferal #huntergatherer

Many of you know that the work eden__plus does is near and dear to my heart (that’s why I work for this great organization, after all!). We’re working in diverse landscapes in multiple countries, helping local communities restore their forests and improve their livelihoods in sustainable, culturally appropriate ways that will benefit our shared planet. We all breathe the same air and drink the same water, so forests anywhere benefit humans everywhere. #reforestation #restoration #ecologicalrestoration #habitatrestoration #plantmoretrees #fieldwork #rewilding #yourhelpmatters #forestlovers #forestsarelife #forestsforallforever #climatesolutions #cleanairandwater #dowhatyoulove #treeplanting #treepeople #kba #biodiversity #criticallyendangered #endangeredspecies #rainforest #edenpeopleplanet

People groups from Africa to Australia to North America have used traditional digging sticks of various designs since time immemorial. I grew up using them with my friends in Uganda, although our simple tools did not have the useful addition of the antler handle. That is reminiscent of North American digging sticks, most notably those used by the first peoples inhabiting the Columbia Plateau. I share this here as a reminder that, while we feel as if we have progressed far past these simple tools, they’re still a part of all of us and still just as useful today as they were 20,000 years ago. #earthskills #foraging #huntergatherer #antlertools #primitivetechnology #simple #rewilding #ancestralskills #feralpursuits #goferal #wearenature #oldways #feralhuman #diggingstick #primitiveliving #gowild #ancienttools

When I started experimenting with soft, pithy-centered woods (which I typically use for hand drill spindles) with the bow drill, it quickly became apparent that they were too soft to maintain structural integrity when bearing down on them with the bearing block. But by inserting a harder tip made of bone, antler, stone, or hardwood, this challenge is no longer a problem, and they even outperform many harder wood options. That opens up more material combos, which increases your odds of making fire with whatever materials are available in your bioregion.🔥 #fireitupfriday #frictionfire #earthskills #rewilding #primitivetechnology #oldways #feralhuman #ancestralskills #huntergatherer #goferal #bowdrill #bowdrillfrictionfire #wildcrafting #bonetools #antlertools

Every time I forage for wild foods that can be potentially dangerous, like members of the nightshade family, I’m grateful for all of our ancestors who put in the hard work to test, experiment, and risk their lives to learn about the edible and medicinal plants in their natural habitats. I’m equally grateful for the herbalists, ethnobotanists, #earthskills earthskills #foraging #rewilding #feralpursuits #goferal #feralhuman #ancestralskills #wearenature #huntergatherer #wildedibleplants #foodfromnature #forageresponsibly #plantknowledge #plantlover #usefulplants #outdooroklahoma #oklahomaoutdoors