I’m Liz Pearson Mann. I write about sustainable and resourceful ways of living: ways to be more rooted in landscape, traditional culture and crafted goods produced with natural materials.
For many years I’ve worked in archaeology – I’m a cross between an archaeologist and ecologist. It’s with this knowledge that I draw you into stories about people who have worked closely with the land and with natural materials. They have provided themselves with food, clothing, and shelter, and their ways have lessons for us all.
This started as a craft-centered and homesteading-focused blog, but I’m gradually extending my horizons. Nevertheless, there are still many posts about producing and making for yourself, which I hope you will find useful.
These are skills that are satisfying and have the potential to give you a degree of self-reliance. But, even if you don’t craft or produce your own food, you can champion the cause of small producers, farmers, artisans, healers and those who work the land. They work with nature, not against it. There’s much you can do with knowledge and skills honed and passed down through generations.
Past-future fusion
This is not about being stuck in the past – this is past-future fusion. It’s about the tried and tested that still works today, alongside the new in our lives.
