The Lucky Sheep® Blog

We live on shaky ground our ancestors came from far away settled these parts and moved west abandoned homes and fields for new opportunity Move on! Move on! build roads and bridges and change the course of rivers send messages along wires to other places build steam...

When I first laid my head on a buckwheat pillow I knew had found another secret lost by modern society.  The simple bean bag like thing lifted my neck, relieving pressure almost like having a massage. It gave me the perfect balance between support and...

It was almost by accident when I first learned about the power of wool to not only increase vitality but to up the comfort level of winter. It was at a time (late 1990s) I was well aware the outdoor community was adopting synthetics as the new best thing...

A few years ago I had a hypothesis that heating the house at night was a waste of time and energy and seemed like a poor design. I seemed to sleep better when not heating the air, so I piled all the blankets I could find to stay warm. I was never warm...

Kickin off the new year with a bang...I had an awesome interview on Divine Superconductor Radio with Matt Blackburn about my upcoming book, The Rewilder's Guide to Camping and Backpacking.We covered a ton of ground, going back to my epic journey from...

For thousands of years humans have slept on minimal surfaces without mattresses. In only a few decades of corporate propaganda and advertising people have come to think of sleep and mattresses as practically synonymous. However what we don't know is...

I’ve had the good fortune to be friends with two women who are EHS or Electro Hypersensitive. Over the past year or so I have learned so much about Electromagnetic Fields and how they affect us in ways that we don’t normally know. The reason why is because...

When backpacking the best foods are nutrient dense and easy to prepare. Easy means ideally either1—Just getting the food out and eating without cooking, or2—Boiling water and adding it to an instant mix.The idea is to carry two pounds of food per day. This...

Here's an easy recipe for Raw Egg Mocha Latte which became my go-to dessert for living in cold weather. Some people have told me the idea of eating raw eggs is not appatizing. However, I have introduced this recipe to many people who have agreed, you don't...

I spent a total of three years from 2011-2014 on and off living in a tipi starting in summer and acclimatizing myself to winter by dipping in the cold mountain streams every day in incrementally longer times. When true winter hit it was still a shock....