December 27th, 2012 at 9:21 am (survival skills, urban survival, primitive living, fire-building, the human path, permaculture, texas outdoor education, herbology, the combat medic, martial arts, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, primitive hunting, wild food sources, outdoor survival, green homesteading, aquaponics, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, trauma medicine, field medicine, tracking, bushcraft, primitive bowmaking, nature spiritulity, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, parkour, health and nutrition, economic collapse, power shortage, survival scenario, weapons, self sustainability, pet survival, eco building, homestead livestock, prepping, homesteading, intentional community, community, societal collapse, gardening, herbal medic)
In today's podcast, Sam Coffman discusses the entire structure of classes and programs at The Human Path.
He addresses many of the questions that people have about how the program is structured at The Human Path, to include:
- What are the differences between core classes and peripheral or elective classes?
- What are the 4 paths or specialties that a person can follow within the core curriculum?
- What specific things do students learn in each of the specialties?
- What makes The Human Path so different from other survival schools?
- How does learning these skills make a difference in day-to-day life?
- What is the difference between Urban and Primitive tracks of instruction?
- What are the "Four A's" of survival that are a part of the core curriculum?
- How does a student move up from level 1 to level 2 in a specialty?
- How are concepts like teamwork, leadership and community taught as part of the classes?
The next Urban Core Basic class is January 25 - 27th, 2013.
Check out the Winter 2013 schedule for the next 2-3 months!
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December 26th, 2012 at 10:33 am (survival skills, urban survival, primitive living, fire-building, the human path, permaculture, texas outdoor education, herbology, martial arts, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, wild food sources, outdoor survival, green homesteading, aquaponics, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, trauma medicine, field medicine, bushcraft, primitive bowmaking, nature spiritulity, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, parkour, health and nutrition, power shortage, survival scenario, weapons, self sustainability, pet survival, eco building, homestead livestock, prepping, homesteading, intentional community, community, societal collapse, gardening, herbal medic)
In this podcast, Sam Coffman discusses The Human Path growth, classes and real-world action during 2012, as well as the direction for 2013 and beyond.
Sam answers questions such as:
- What kinds of learning experiences were developed throughout 2012 and what can we look forward to in 2013?
- How has the breadth of the curriculum has been defined over the past few years at The Human Path? What exactly does that breadth of information include?
- How have The Human Path instructors evolved with the school?
- Why is it necessary to implement testing and selection procedures for higher level classes and real-world teams? What might that testing procedure look like, and at what point in the different levels will we see it?
- As we focus in the 4 areas of our curriculum delivery - Lecture, Hands-on, Scenario and Real-world missions – how does this all merge to create an ideal learning and even life-changing environment?
- How did Nicaragua figure into learning experience during 2012, and what's next?
- What can we expect to see in 2013 in regards to real-world missions and new classes?
Our new calendar for 2013 is up online here.
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June 25th, 2012 at 2:03 pm (survival skills, the human path, permaculture, texas outdoor education, herbology, wild food sources, green homesteading, aquaponics, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, field medicine, disaster preparedness, readiness, health and nutrition, self sustainability, prepping, societal collapse, gardening)
In today's podcast, Sam Coffman discusses a recent news story in which a woman's medicinal and food garden were destroyed by an HOA and the city.
He covers topics such as:
- How can we prepare our own medicinal gardens to avoid falling prey to this kind of ignorance?
- What are some of the different types of urban camouflage gardening (Guerilla Gardening)?
- What are the different height levels and how can we create a medicinal garden in the front yard that uses this to help fit the garden in with HOA and municipal idiot-regulations?
- What are some very good medicinal plants that grow as ground cover and can replace a yard?
- What are some very good medicinal plants that are high ground cover, low-herbaceous level?
- What are some good medicinal herbaceous plants and how can we fit that into our yard in a way that doesn't stand out?
- What is the concept behind forest gardening and how can that help us be more prepared?
- What is the advantage of using local plants?
To learn more about using medicinal plants that you can grow, as well as harvest locally in the wild, sign up for the next Herbology Level 1 class here
Related Items:
More information about the incident discussed in this podcast about the mowed-down garden, news report
Companion Article, 'On Your Side of the Fence'
Upcoming class in Austin, TX: 'Cooking With Wild Edibles', July 26th
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March 1st, 2012 at 11:41 am (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, green homesteading, long-term food storage, readiness, economic collapse, self sustainability, prepping)
Each day, grocery stores throw out thousands of pounds of fresh and useable produce, meat and food staples. These items are not spoiled, they are often times not damaged, and might be tossed just because there is too much overstock. Today, Sam Coffman talks with a Human Path Facebook follower, who watched a video trailer we posted, 'Dive', about 2 months ago and decided to try her hand at dumpster diving to help her family through a rough financial spot. She was shocked at the amount of waste with perfectly good food being thrown away and now her family eats healthier than ever.
Sam and listener Zoe discuss:
- what led her family to try dumpster diving and the negative stigma that they had to overcome in order to try it out
- the movie 'Dive' that changed their attitude about the practice of dumpster diving
- the volume of fresh organic food being thrown away and the great variety of high-end healthy food
- how they share with friends and neighbors when they collect more than they need
- how they were able to stock up for their family of 5 for a full year after 2 months of dumpster diving
- store dumpsters may often be full (and locked) even though stores claim to donate everything to charities and shelters
- the dangers to note and precautions that divers must take before going out
- the best times to go and where
- the idea of a co-op for divers to share and distribute collected food to make sure perfectly good food doesn't just got tossed
- making extra cash by selling cast-off items
- dumpster diving as a growing and thriving sub-culture, sometimes called 'freegans'
- learning about food safety
Waste and over-consumption are a huge problem with our country's landfills being packed with things that can either be consumed, re-used or re-purposed. When thousands of pounds of good food are being thrown out, natural resources continue to be depleted.
Learn how to sharpen your urban awareness and survival skills. See how to be a part of the eco-solution and not part of the problem.
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February 29th, 2012 at 6:48 pm (survival skills, urban survival, primitive living, the human path, texas outdoor education, wild food sources, outdoor survival, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, disaster preparedness, readiness, power shortage, survival scenario, survival gear, weapons, self sustainability, prepping)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman reviews last night’s “Doomsday Preppers” show (National Geographic channel) –
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/doomsday-preppers/
Sam gives his own feedback on the preppers that were featured in this show, as well as some of the concepts involved in their method of prepping. Aside from talking about the details of each individual prepper and some various feedback on their plans, he also talks about:
- bird alarms as a method of early warning in a rural environment
- lifestyle adjustments for the first family of primitive skills enthusiasts for prepping
- over-population as a possible disaster scenario and why it works well
- firearms' role in survival
- living off the 'fat of the land'
- surviving in a bunker: what happens when they have to inevitably emerge from the bunker?
- changing a culture of 'distraction' to ensure a positive survival of the species
- security: humans vs. machinery
- prepping for martial law: what this means
- water: what is the bare minimum per person needed, and how much for comfort?
- what is to be gained through sniper tactics in a survival situation?
- the difference between these prepper's everyday lifestyle compared to what they are prepping for
There are two survival courses coming up that deal specifically with survival in all types of situations.
See the online schedule for:
The Primitive Core Basic: 5-Day Intensive, March 12 - 16th, online registration
The Urban Core Basic: Part one, May 4 - 6th, online registration
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February 15th, 2012 at 12:38 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, disaster preparedness, readiness, economic collapse, power shortage, survival scenario, survival gear, weapons, self sustainability, prepping)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman reviews last night’s “Doomsday Preppers” show (National Geographic channel) –
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/doomsday-preppers/
Sam gives his own feedback on the preppers that were featured in this show, as well as some of the concepts involved in their method of prepping. Aside from talking about the details of each individual prepper and some various feedback on their plans, he also talks about:
- The general 2 main types of preppers
- Gear vs. Skills
- Prepping in a huge urban area like NYC, and bugging in
- Security vs. Food
- The “stereotypical” prepper and where that idea will lead us
- The concepts behind “prepping” at The Human Path
There are still a few slots open in the Urban Core Basic, where you can learn, practice and apply preparedness concepts in hands-on and scenario-based environments - Online calendar and registration
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February 10th, 2012 at 2:00 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, wild food sources, green homesteading, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, readiness, health and nutrition, self sustainability, homestead livestock)
Today is our 100th podcast! Sam talks with rabbit breeder/homesteader Rick Worden of Rise and Shine Rabbitry about raising rabbits as a food source. Until recently, rabbitry was an under-publicized source of excellent meat and compost material. With rabbits' quick reproductive turnaround, rabbits are being recognized as an efficient and cost-effective source of food.
Sam and Rick discuss:
- Rabbits as a meat source
- How to get started
- What a beginner might need
- Why are rabbits a good option compared to other livestock?
- Breeds of rabbits
- Wild vs. domestic
- Rabbit manure as compost
- Keeping bucks separate from females
Rick has an excellent Facebook page and online blog resource at www.riseandshinerabbitry.wordpress.com.
Rick Worden of Rise and Shine Rabbitry: I have been raising rabbits for 30 + years. My passion is promoting rabbits for homestead use: meat, fur, manure and all that goes with those 3. I grow as much of our own food as possibly canning , drying, and freezing it, and buying local what I can not produce.
Additional Reading Resources
Raising Rabbits the Modern Way
by Ann Kanable
Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits, 4th Edition
by Bob Bennett
Rabbit Production
by Peter R Cheeke
Related Rabbitry Podcasts:
Episode #116: The Rabbit and The Herb
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February 9th, 2012 at 11:45 am (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, outdoor survival, green homesteading, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, disaster preparedness, readiness, economic collapse, power shortage, survival scenario, survival gear, self sustainability)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman reviews the first episode of the National Geographic channel’s “Doomsday Preppers” 2 hour premiere on 2/7/12. He talks about:
- The idea behind this series and how it can be educational – even if it is also “Hollywood”
- The best and the worst of this series
- The importance of learning to “live like you prep”
- Why you are only as strong as your weakest, figurative “link” when you prep
- How an illusion of what you might think will happen in a disaster situation can leave you unprepared
The National Geographic channel is airing the Doomsday Preppers series weekly:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/doomsday-preppers/
Learn urban and wilderness survival skills at The Human Path Wilderness Survival - online registration
Urban Survival – online calendar of classes
Herbology & Plant Medicine: online calendar of classes
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January 20th, 2012 at 1:46 pm (survival skills, the human path, texas outdoor education, green homesteading, long-term food storage, disaster preparedness, economic collapse, self sustainability)
Self-sustainability and eco-architecture are increasingly on the minds of many people looking to provide for themselves in event of societal and environmental changes. Today Sam Coffman speaks with Mark Kirkwood of Biotechture Training, about the earthship construction training program they are offering in East Texas. They discuss the following:
- What is the key to successful sustainability and survival?
- What is the most important aspect of building an earthship?
- How the training and tuition figure into building earthship homes for participating students
- How much it costs to build an earthship
- What is the most untapped resource on the planet now?
- An explanation of the new earthship designs and how they are different and improved
- Brief explanation of how multiple systems: thermo-mass rocket heaters, solar and wind power systems, play in important role in the Biotechture earthship building model
- Upcoming 2- week Aquaponics course
Biotechture Training.
We are a non-profit organization. Our mission is to teach, as many people as are willing to learn, how to live sustainably, because no one should have to pay a cost just for living. To build Earthships which are off-grid, self-sustained homes that provide not only for all the basic human needs of shelter, food, water, and power; but also needs of comfort, safety, technology, and abundance. An Earthship can provide all that using technologies and resources available today. Earthships are radically sustainable buildings made with recycled materials. Earthships can be built in any part of the world, in any climate and still provide solar power, wind power, catchwater, contained sewage treatment and sustainable food production through aquaponics farming.
On Monday, we will continue the second half of this podcast with a discussion between Mark and Sam about Aquaponics as part of the self-sustainability model.
Related Resources
Biotechturetraining.com website
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January 19th, 2012 at 3:02 pm (survival skills, urban survival, fire-building, the human path, texas outdoor education, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, outdoor survival, green homesteading, aquaponics, long-term food storage, disaster preparedness, readiness, economic collapse, power shortage, survival scenario, self sustainability)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman discusses the Urban Core Basic course. This purpose of this course is to lay the groundwork for urban survival and community re-building. Sam covers the following points and more in his talk today:
- What is the Urban Core Basic and how does it differ from the Primitive Core Basic?
- Is there overlap between the two courses?
- What are the core courses vs. peripheral courses in The Human Path curriculum?
- How do Food, Water, Shelter, Fire and Security fit together in an urban environment?
- What are some of the hands-on exercises that students have to do in the Urban Core Basic?
- What kinds of subjects and scenarios will be run in the part 2 of the Urban Core Basic coming up in about 4 weeks?
- Can a person jump into Part 2 and finish Part 1 later?
- How many hours are the Core Basics, and why are they split up in 2 parts sometimes and in 1 long course other times?
Upcoming Related Courses
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