Teaching Esteban & Luna basic survival skills
Children love fire and they also love cooking stuff on it, so today's mission was a back to basics 'see how long it takes to boil a pot of water without using a stove or a lighter' kinda day.
When I started prepping a year ago this flint stick was the first thing I bought. It produces an incredible amount of sparks even in heavy wind and is good for 5000 strikes, making it way better than a lighter.
This is the moment Esteban figured out it was also a whistle.
The fire took no more than a few minutes to get started using the tepee method, seen below along with a few other methods.
I wanted Esteban to figure out a way to support the cooking pot above the fire.
And if I'm gonna be honest he wasn't great at this but having seen what I did, I feel sure he will be able to come up with his own system next time.
Luna loved standing over the cooking pot stirring her 'soup' and serving me mouthfulls with her stick.
Besides growing food, making fire and cooking food must surely be up there with the most important survival skills?
Next time we will focus on foraging and making basic shelter in the wild.
Gotta get 'em started young ;)
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Ah! You guys are awesome. Thanks :)
I'm loving your stone walled garden area. It seems well protected from wind and too many onlookers. Your children look very well and happy!
I'm on a ranch in Mexico and we are in the planning process for what to build and plant.
It does get pretty windy still but yes, it is more protected than our allotment for sure. And this courtyard must surly be the reason why our bananas are producing fruit, when everyone says they don't produce fruit here! Very are very lucky the way things have worked out.
Great you are busy in Mexico. How are things there?
Things are going well but the road to get here is now closed and we are a bit short on the proper tools for gardening and building. So, we are doing what we can and making lists so that we are ready when things open back up. It's a nice environment to be in with a beautiful river along the property border.
This feels like a trial balloon to me, more than the endgame so I think that we will have the opportunity to get things that will help us move along the project.
Be well.