Bushcraft for Beginners

We put together a DIY camper on a trailer that looks like a bunch of pallets strapped down. It's all hollow on the inside and I set up a quick camper setup. I camped in for the night in a parking lot beside a strip mall and cooked up some good food. It was a little rainy, but rain makes for good camping sometimes! ------------------------------------------------------- --------- • Website: https://campingwithsteve.com • My Amazon store: https://amzn.to/49li5Az • Merch https://crowdmade.com/collections/stevewallis ------------------------------------------------------- --------- Gear: Camera: Sony Alpha FX3 https://amzn.to/3SIMQra Lens: Sony FE PZ 16-35mm F4 G https://amzn.to/3SL1rm7 Editing: Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Final Cut Pro https://amzn.to/3YeuCiy Drone: DJI Mini 3 https://amzn.to/3YqQ0Ew ------------------------------------------------------- --------- Socials: • Facebook: https://facebook.com/campingwithsteve • Instagram: https://instagram.com/campingsteve • Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/hunkerdownsteve • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@campingwithsteve • Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/campingwithsteve.com ------------------------------------------------------- --------- #hunkerdown #camping #stealthcamping

📖 The Nature’s Lost Vault Book Is Now Available. Learn more: https://naturelostvault.com/book.html The US Navy flew supersonic on it. Montana farmers grew it under military contract. A carrier strike group deployed on it in 2012. Then oil prices dropped, the lobbying kicked in, and the program died in 18 months. Most people have never heard the name camelina. But 4,000 years of European farmers knew it as Gold-of-Pleasure, the oil crop that needed no irrigation, no fertilizer, and no permission. A single acre pressed enough fuel to light a village through winter. The ancient Romans burned it. The Bronze Age stored it in sealed clay vessels. And in 2010, a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet broke the sound barrier on it over the Chesapeake Bay. What happened between that flight and today is a case study in how energy independence gets erased. Not by hiding the science, the Navy published every result. By making sure the infrastructure could never survive when oil prices fell. The American Petroleum Institute spent years killing the federal mandates that would have protected the camelina program from exactly that moment. When crude dropped from $115 to $50 a barrel in 2014, the program had nowhere to stand. The seed is still legal in all 50 states. It still grows in 90 days on soil too poor for wheat. It still presses into fuel that meets American and European biodiesel standards. In Ukraine, farmers who never stopped growing it are still pressing it by hand in equipment their grandparents used. The knowledge was never lost. It was just made irrelevant on purpose. 📚 Sources: - Brock, Jordan R., and Kenneth M. Olsen. "Molecular and Archaeological Evidence on the Geographical Origin of Domestication for Camelina sativa." American Journal of Botany 109, no. 10 (2022): 1563–1578. - Budin, James T., Walter M. Breene, and Daniel H. Putnam. "Some Compositional Properties of Camelina (Camelina sativa L. Crantz) Seeds and Oils." Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society 72, no. 3 (1995): 309–315. - Frohlich, A., and B. Rice. "Evaluation of Camelina sativa Oil as a Feedstock for Biodiesel Production." Industrial Crops and Products 21, no. 1 (2005): 25–31. - Moser, Bryan R. "Camelina (Camelina sativa L.) Oil as a Biofuels Feedstock: Golden Opportunity or False Hope?" Lipid Technology 22, no. 12 (2010): 270–273. - Bernardo, A., R. Howard-Hildige, A. O'Connell, R. Nichol, J. Ryan, B. Rice, E. Roche, and J. J. Leahy. "Camelina Oil as a Fuel for Diesel Transport Engines." Industrial Crops and Products 17, no. 3 (2003): 191–197. - Snyder, Corry S., and Michael C. Romann. "Life Cycle Analysis of Camelina-Derived Jet Fuel." Michigan Technological University Report prepared for the US Department of Defense, 2010. - US Department of the Navy. "Navy Biofuel Certification and the Great Green Fleet." Office of Naval Research Program Summary, 2012. - US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). "Green Hornet: F/A-18 Super Hornet Alternative Fuel Flight Demonstration." Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, April 22, 2010. - Pilgeram, Armand L. "Camelina sativa, a Montana Omega-3 and Fuel Crop." In Trends in New Crops and New Uses, edited by J. Janick and A. Whipkey. Alexandria, VA: ASHS Press, 2007. - Ehrensing, Daryl T., and Stephen O. Guy. "Camelina." Oregon State University Extension Service Publication EM 8953-E, 2008. #energyindependence #biofuel #homestead #survival

Black walnut syrup is one of the most overlooked, high-value forestry products in North America—and it might already be growing on your land. In this video, we break down small-scale black walnut syrup production from start to finish, based on real-world experience tapping trees, collecting sap, boiling, filtering, and bottling premium syrup with minimal equipment. Black walnut trees (Juglans nigra) don’t grow in tidy sugar bushes like maple—but they offer a rare, niche product with a deep, butterscotch-like flavor that commands $300–$700 per gallon in today’s market . You’ll learn: • How to identify black walnut trees in every season • When sap actually flows—and how to time the season for higher Brix • Tapping methods that protect tree health and timber value • Simple bucket and hose systems that work without big capital • Sap collection, storage, and spoilage prevention • Efficient evaporation methods (wood-fired, propane, and DIY setups) • Why black walnut syrup has more pectin—and how to filter it properly • Finishing, bottling, labeling, and storage best practices • Common mistakes that ruin syrup quality (and how to avoid them) Black walnut syrup production scales from backyard hobby to serious direct-to-consumer income, especially for producers in the Midwest and South who don’t have access to maple trees. It also pairs perfectly with diversified farms, silvopasture, and regenerative land management. If you’re interested in non-timber forest products, farm diversification, high-margin specialty foods, or turning “nuisance trees” into profit, this video is for you. 👉 Subscribe for more real-world farming systems 👉 Comment with your region—we’ll talk season timing 👉 Share this with someone who has black walnut trees and no idea what they’re worth Black walnut season is short. Miss it—and you wait another year. Get the how-to guide here: https://farmbuild.us/products/black-walnut-syrup-guide?variant=40993077985365 #BlackWalnutSyrup #WalnutSyrup #BlackWalnut #TreeTapping #SyrupMaking #NonTimberForestProducts #ForestFarming #FarmDiversification #RegenerativeAgriculture #HomesteadIncome #BackyardSyrup #SapToSyrup #WoodFiredEvaporator #DIYFoodProduction #RareFoods #SmallScaleFarming #Agroforestry #DirectToConsumer #ValueAddedAgriculture #JuglansNigra

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