The Patterns Method of Plant Identification

An Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families of North America

by Thomas J. Elpel

Excellent, educational and insightful look at the plant world through its interrelations and common qualities.

Both a good introduction and long term reference.

Tom is a longtime friend and colleague who has published more books, videos and games than most anyone else in our community, from ancestral skills to plants to natural building to examining our modern existence.

235 pages, with color illustrations
8.5” x 11” x .5”

list price $30

(HOPS Press)

by Thomas J Elpel
& Kris Reed

Incredibly practical and comprehensive guide to wild foods, which is at the same time very accessible. All of this makes it the book you want to have with you out in the field.

Tom is a longtime friend and colleague who has published more books, videos and games than most anyone else in our community, from ancestral skills to plants to natural building to examining our modern existence.

Met Kris Reed at an ancestral skills gathering several years ago and was delighted to find that he had collaborated with Tom to create this most recent title.

338 pages in full color
6” x 9” x .75”

list price $30

(HOPS Press)

Consciousness, World Views and the Blossoming of Human Spirit

by Thomas J. Elpel

Lots of food for thought about who we are and what we are doing in our world.

Tom has been a longtime colleague and friend who has dedicated much of his life to writing down these kinds of streams of consciousness and in doing so has inspired many people to move outside of their normal comfort zone and make changes in the way they look at their lives……. Whether you find a small tidbit or a huge realization, you will most likely find at least something in these pages.

260 pages
8.5” x 11” x .625”

list price $30

(HOPS Press)

Stone Age Skills for the 21st Century

by Bart & Robin Blankenship

A great introduction to ancestral skills which covers all the basics but keeps it simple and straight to the point; so the resulting book is small enough to easily carry around and the chapters are short enough to read through in a short period of time.

Highly recommended, especially as a first book on the subject.

Bart and Robin are long-time colleagues with whom many hours have been spent around the campfire at skills gatherings and Robin’s continued active engagement at a number of gatherings such as Rabbitstick, Winter Count and the Buckeye Gathering doing kids camp programs has now made this a relationship that has continued for more than 30 years.

192 pages
6” x 9” x .5”

list price $18.95

(Gibbs Smith Publishing)

A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills

by Steven M. Watts

As a founding member and longtime board member of the Society of Primitive Technology, Steve contributed to the Bulletin in many ways, the most visible of which were his regular illustrations and clear concise way of presenting important concepts.

This book is an incredible collection of those contributions, plus other handouts which were never published, all in one place.

225 pages
8.5” x 11” x .5”

list price $24.99

(Gibbs Smith Publishing)