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Tipi Living. Life around the hearth...UPDATE - falling of the snows.

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huntertrapper:
pretty neat.  been thinking of spending my measley dollars on a nylon tipi and stove and living in it nomadicly. What the update on this?

Wiley:
Pretty wonderful. Part of me questions my attachment to society and all of the baggage that comes with it, and tells me to wander into the wilderness. The other part of me questions whether I would ever come back from such an adventure.

My path will probably end up being something a little less primitive but far from civilization as we know it today. Build a little house out of natural materials somewhere quiet, maybe out of logs or cob. Stuff that once i'm gone will eventually return to the earth it came from. Practice sustainable organic, no till agriculture that will increase the quality of the soil every year. Plant a food forest of every perennial edible plant that will take root in that location. Maybe have some rabbits and chickens, for their meat, eggs and fertilizer. A few hundred years after i'm gone there will be little trace I was there except for a grove of fruit trees, shrubs, vines, mushrooms, and bushes producing food within a forest that the native animals will enjoy as much as I did. A well built cob house would survive for many centuries, maybe many generations of bear will call it home for the winter after I am gone until the roof caves in and the rains turns its walls of clay, straw and sand, back into soil.

I wish to live lightly upon the earth, in as close to a harmony with nature as I know how to do. Maybe not completely in the hunter/gather/nomadic sense of lightly, but probably something more in tune with how they lived after basic agriculture was devised by humanity. If the only sign of my existence in a place hundreds or thousands of years after i'm gone is the survival of food producing plants, I could be ok with that.

huntertrapper:
hey I hope it works wiley.  try the road first thats a good test for your ability to take solitude. just walk around. But i am with ya. I'd like to go back in for awhile with a few goats or mule and my dog and wander the wilderness but come out once and awhile and sell crafts or walking sticks to resupply a bit and buy some whiskey.

Wylden Freeborne:
Hunter, I would suggest canvas in lieu of nylon, and gor for 15 ft. Best size and material for central fire, in my experience. We are in our tipi at Ojam in Oklahoma this week, having a blast! I have never been around so many primitive bowyers. Can't wait to regale my northwest friends with. Tales of hundreds of asage staves everywhere the eye can see! The tipi is nestled cozily in the cedars just a few feet from the pond and the frogs are barking us to sleep!

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