Steven Edholm

Skillcult

Steven Edholm is an autodidact, polymathic, writer, teacher, experimenter and content creator.  Long standing interests are in primitive technology, natural history, self-reliance, traditional skills, tools, materials and horticulture. The primary mission of his project SkillCult is to disseminate practical and inspiring content, that encourages people to engage with life and their environments, toward being more self-contained, knowledgeable and free thinking.  For the last 15 years, projects and experiments have been carried out on a 40-acre homestead in Northern California. Future dreams include a new, bigger, better homestead/laboratory for various altruistically oriented projects, housed under a nonprofit status. Some current and future projects include continuing apple and other plant breeding, innovative grafting experiments, improving and reforming tree training practices, research and development of inventions related to horticulture, biochar and soil improvement, and working toward a broadly integrated sustainable leather tanning model. Find him at Skillcult.com.