Thomas J. Elpel

Explains the patterns method of plant identification, describing eight key patterns for recognizing more than 45,000 species of plants, and includes an illustrated reference guide to plant families.

The Patterns Method of Plant Identification : an Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families of North America

Botany in a Day

Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Integrated Design and Construction

Living Homes

Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills

Participating in Nature

Kris Reed

Foraging the Mountain West is a guide to harvesting and celebrating nature's abundance.

Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat

Foraging the Mountain West

Shanleya's Quest: Patterns in Plants Card Game is a fun way to test your skills at identifying the plant family patterns introduced in the book Shanleya's Quest (sold separately). By playing the game you will learn to recognize the plant families in the fields and meadows of the real world. Includes 52 cards and instructions.

Patterns in Plants Card Game

Shanleya's Quest

What if our entire experience of reality were based on an assumption that could be proven false? In Roadmap to Reality, Thomas J. Elpel tests the assumption that we are a sentient (self-aware) species, and finds that the evidence suggests otherwise. Instead of acting out of conscious thought, we move through life much like automatons, reacting to events based on behaviors and beliefs that are mimicked and passed down from generation to generation without consciously evaluating why we do what we do. In short, we don't act, we react.Roadmap to Reality is like following the trail of a great mystery, sequentially following simple ideas and common information to reveal how consciousness and worldviews evolve in layers over time. This book will change your perspective of history, change the way you perceive world events today, and it will change you. This book will enable you to let go of preconceived notions about the nature of reality to discover a more holistic, more satisfying life experience.

Consciousness, Worldviews, and the Blossoming of Human Spirit

Roadmap to Reality

The story of a girl who paddles her canoe out to the tree islands to learn the plant traditions of her people is presented to help readers learn the patterns that will help them correctly match many species of plants to their proper families.

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