Art-N-Facts (Store)

 

How To Play in the Woods by Robin Blankenship.
As described on the Amazon site: ” This book is filled with skills, games, and activities for back-to-nature adventures and camping trips. It is great for all ages and abilities, from children to adults, and is a must-have for anyone working with scouts or youth groups. How to Play in the Woods is also a handy reference book for campers and outdoor enthusiasts who need to brush up on basic survival skills…….. This book encourages and motivates readers to be interactive with nature, to be free from prescribed schedules, and to just play and enjoy outdoors while relearning the wisdom and ways of our ancestors. …”
Robin says, “Even though we know it’s good to get ourselves outside, with all the convenient and easy modern distractions available in the indoor environment, it’s tough to make the outdoor choice. How To Play In The Woods gives so many easy and accessible activities and ideas about how to have fun out there, that it won’t take readers long to feel the motivation to head out the door.
Besides health and enjoyment, I really wanted to remind readers of the unified relationship humans have had with nature throughout most of history, how it has formed who we are physically and mentally, and the rich heritage of living skills amassed by our ancestors. Ancient technologies are just as magical and amazing as modern technologies, and reincorporating a few of them back into our modern lifestyle would go a long way in re mediating many of our modern environmental and personal health maladies. Greater appreciation for this planet that sustains us and the wisdom of our ancestors is a lovely side effect of ‘getting out there’… and rubs off on our youth.
Have fun playing in the woods!”
Send a money order or check made payable to Robin Blankenship for $22.95 (includes shipping) to: Robin Blankenship P.O. # 508 Crestone CO 81131. Also available for purchase at Amazon.com (Kindle Version also available) or Barnes & Noble. Help the book succeed! Go to your local independent book store and ask them to order the book! Thanks!

 

Earth Knack: Stone Age Skills for the 21st Century by Robin and Bart Blankenship.

Earth Knack is a comprehensive how-to book for learning and using Stone Age skills to fulfill your daily needs…Anyone who tries these ideas will find them environmentally appropriate and uniquely fulfilling.

Excerpts from endorsements: …(these) “skills are proven in real life, where a piece of sage bark string often made the difference between survival and going to bed hungry…a collection of ancient living principles and skills to be valued and practiced by all those who desire to make it on the land.” – Larry Dean Olsen, author of Outdoor Survival Skills

…”Besides being an inexhaustible treasure-house of ancient lore, Earth Knack provides a heartwarming heave-ho to the arrogant notion that technology is something we invented”. – Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael and Story of B.

…”Earth Knack is the first book since Outdoor Survival Skills to redirect popular culture to a renewed sense of belonging to the land. (Earth Knack) calls attention to the fact that woods lore is alive and well and holds a legitimate place in (21st century) outdoor education.” – David Wescott, past director of Boulder Outdoor Survival School and managing editor of The Society of Primitive Technology.

Send a money order or check made payable to Robin Blankenship for $20.95 (includes shipping) to: Robin Blankenship P.O. # 508 Crestone CO 81131. Also available for purchase at Amazon.com (Kindle Version also available) or Barnes & Noble. Help the book succeed! Go to your local independent book store and ask them to order the book! Thanks!

 

My Loin Cloth Has No Pockets

My Loin Cloth Has No Pockets is an upbeat, heartfelt and often humorous collection of songs inspired by Robin Blankenship’s 30+ years of living off the land and primitive skills teaching. Don Richmond masterfully crafted the instrumental arrangements around Robin’s original lyrics and melodies, with fiddle, dobro, banjo, mandolin, penny whistle and many other instruments. With the addition of didgeridoo and djembe and other percussion by Fuz Sanderson, this fresh and original C.D. is sure to bring a smile to your face and get your toes tapin’. To listen to the first of 13 songs on this CD, called I Need A Man Who Can Keep Me In Buckskin, click the play button below.  To order, send check or money order for $15 (includes shipping) to: Earth Knack Robin Blankenship P.O. Box 508, Crestone, CO 81131

 

 

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Make your own card-woven hat bands and belts at home. You can follow the directions for card weaving in the Earth Knack book. To order your set of 12 Card Weaving Cards, send a money order for $12 (includes shipping) to: Earth Knack Robin Blankenship P.O. #508 Crestone, CO 81131

 

 

 

 

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Cattail Bob Seebeck has the most useful wild edible and herb book of the Colorado Rockies region: Survival Plants of Colorado. His unique compilation of pictures showing a plant in seasonal stages is brilliant!
To order your copy, contact Cattail directly at cattailbob@gmail.com or purchase a copy in person at the Earth Knack Art-N-Facts store at the school site.

 

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Strollin’ Jeff Wolin and the Blue Cricket Band CD In Your Backyard, won the Children’s Web Award in 2003 and is recommended by the Parent’s Choice Foundation. To order your copy contact Ranger Jeff directly at jawolin18@gmail.com or purchase a copy in person at the Earth Knack Art-N-Facts store at the school site.

 

 

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Alycia Chambers Meadowlark CD is available by contacting Alycia directly at alycia1320@fairpoint.net

 

 

 

Traditional Tanned Custom Buckskin Clothing and other wearable art elk hide * deer hide * antelope hide * buffalo hide * snake skin * horse hair * shell * bone * antler * elk ivories * obsidian * wool * silk * mohair * linen * cotton * dogbane Hand sewn and creatively designed traditional tanned custom buckskin clothing and other wearable art. Below are only a few examples of some of Earth Knack’s creations. To order any of these or to get a full brochure of our products please mail or call: Robin Blankenship Earth Knack P.O. # 508 Crestone, CO 81131 719-256-4909


Cotton and silk hat band

Wedding dress tanned and sewn by Christina

Elk hide fleece lined chain saw mittens

Khalisa’s antelope hide vest

Elk hide vest with personal Scottish clan tartan lining

The fabulous rams head pattern

Card weaving cards

Primitive living skills for the 21st century