My family survived the hard, country life following the Great Depression, expressly the 1940s and early 1950s mainly due to the fact that Dad knew how to make things. He was really good at "Making meat" an old term for putting food on the table. I grew up helping kill hogs, making sausage and eating the wild game and plants offered by nature. Dad taught me every thing he knew about trapping, hunting, fishing, gardening, and making medicine. When we had time left after making a living Dad taught me how to have fun; how to make toys. In order to survive, without money, of which we had none, you must know how to make your own tools; Dad was good at that too. He taught me how to survive with what I had ... "Make what you have, do." We made do with what nature provided. Dad talked to the animals and plants, the river and land just like it was you or me. I never asked why. It was years later that I read JOB 12 V 7-8 and shivered! "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee."
The Survivor section is divided into 4 sections: Making Medicine, Making Tools, Making Meat, and Making Toys.