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	<title>Living Primitively</title>
	<link>http://livingprimitively.com</link>
	<description>We are a group of people who are passionate about the old skills of living in and with nature. We don´t live in the same area, but instead work in different environments and have different approaches to what we do. With this site we´d like to share our passion with the larger world and connect with like minded people. Posting might be infrequent, because our lifestyle doesn´t involve internet access at all times.</description>
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		<title>Kyle and the Quiggly Hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My name is Kyle. I live in the Inland Northwestern United States. I am on a somewhat different path than Torjus and Thomas. I have not achieved the dirt time or the craftsmanship these two have. I am nonetheless very passionate about primitive living.
 
 As a teenager I spent some time as hunter/gatherer in the steppes and forests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingprimitively.com/2012/02/kyle-and-the-quiggly-hole/</link>
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		<title>Traditional lifestyles&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There aren&#8217;t too many places left on this planet where people life a more simple life, subsisting mainly on what the land provides. I recently came across a documentary about a village in central Siberia called &#8220;Happy People &#8211; A Year in the Taiga&#8221; where this is true to some degree: ancient traps exist next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingprimitively.com/2012/01/traditional-lifestyles/</link>
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		<title>Winter preparations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The snow has been carpeting the ground since well over a month. Craftwise, I&#8217;ve been mostly doing some minor repairs on my existing gear and tools.
The fur on the sleeves of my coyote parka got worn off in some spots, so I decided to cut out the thin parts and replace them with new fur. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingprimitively.com/2011/12/winter-preparations/</link>
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		<title>Skins for Water and Warmth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been experimenting a lot with a more refined way of working skins. Most of it is based on native Siberian tanning, just utilizing stone tools instead. I will not give you all the details of the process as of yet, but briefly show you one of two new tools which removes the need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingprimitively.com/2011/12/skins-for-water-and-warmth/</link>
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		<title>Earth Lodge Finished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The construction of this earth lodge was started in 2009 during the Veidemann course. Birch bark supply ran short two years in a row, but finally, this year I managed to complete the thatching. It would still probably be advantageous to extend the birch bark a bit further up in order to contain more heat. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingprimitively.com/2011/12/earth-lodge-finished/</link>
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		<title>Burning The Lands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last year I have realised more and more that we humans have a role in most of the ecosystems on the planet. And I think for a very long time we lived in relative balance with it. Balance itself in it&#8217;s true form does not exist, neither in nature or in humans, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingprimitively.com/2011/12/burning-the-lands/</link>
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		<title>Fall time in the northwoods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I´ve spent most of this summer in the woods with a few other people (you can read more about it on the Into the Woods blog). Since a few weeks, I´ve been back to the world of buildings, cars and phones, working on various projects, some of which take me back into the woods, others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingprimitively.com/2011/10/fall-time-in-the-northwoods/</link>
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		<title>Of skin and wood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I´ve been posting this on the Into the Woods blog a little while ago and thought some people who read this blog may also be interested in it&#8230;
It was spring &#8211; the maple sap was just beginning to flow and the  white blanket of snow had disappeared from the ground. I had done some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingprimitively.com/2011/08/of-skin-and-wood/</link>
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		<title>Birch Sap and a Prototype Trap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid some friends and I usually tapped some birches every spring and drank. I find it very good, with a slightly sweet and sour taste. Water is not always good at that time of year anyway, so drinking sap is an excellent substitute.
What we formerly did was to drill a hole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingprimitively.com/2011/06/birch-sap-and-a-prototype-trap/</link>
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		<title>Wildlife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very rarely I take photos of the wildlife I see. But a while ago I got a few opportunities when my camera was virtually already in my hands.
This kit beaver was feeding in the margins of a pool in the river. It took a while before it noticed me and I got pretty close.


This common [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingprimitively.com/2011/06/wildlife/</link>
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