THE FIELD & FORGE SYSTEM™
Frontier Grit.
Forged for Today.
The Field & Forge System™ is a whole-person system built from wilderness experience, practical preparedness, and everyday life. It shares insights from the founder’s seven decades of field experience, showing how conditions shape outcomes in the wilderness, in daily life, and within the individual.
Through preparedness, observation, awareness, adaptation, and growth, the system helps people better understand what is happening around them, what is happening within them, and how to respond effectively to both.
Wilderness life provides the insights. Everyday life moves those insights into each person’s unique application.
The Books
Prepare. Survive. Adapt. Grow.™
238 pages · Hardcover · Approx. 6 × 9 inches
This book begins with preparation for real conditions.
It lays out what to carry, how to think ahead, and how to manage the things that matter when comfort is gone: shelter, water, fire, direction, exposure, time, movement, and pressure.
The book also deals with the inner side of survival — how a person stays clear, steady, and able to act when fatigue, fear, discomfort, or uncertainty begin to work on the mind.
This is the foundation book of the Field & Forge System™.
What you carry. How you move. How you respond when it matters.
Energy of the Night™
90 pages · Hardcover · Approx. 6 × 9 inches
This book enters the wilderness at night. When light fades, the familiar markers weaken. Distance changes. Sound changes. Movement slows. The mind reaches for certainty that may no longer be there.
Night shows a person different things. It shows what happens when sight no longer leads everything. It shows how quickly the mind can hurry. It shows the value of stillness, restraint, and awareness.
It is about holding steadiness when the dark removes easy confirmation. It is about learning to notice what remains when the eyes cannot do all the work. Presence. Awareness. Restraint. Recognition. Steadiness under uncertainty. These are field skills as well.
The Land Decides™
164 pages · Hardcover · Approx. 6 × 9 inches
This book moves through the wilderness with the frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton. It follows them through four seasons, terrain, weather, hunger, distance, fatigue, shelter, fire, water, food, and consequence. A choice is made. The land answers through results. The next decision carries the weight of the last one. That is how the wilderness works.
This book shows how skill, restraint, timing, judgment, and awareness live together when a person has to move through real wilderness through each season of time.
Holding Direction – Navigation Through the Land™
38 pages · Hardcover · Approx. 6 × 9 inches
This book returns to one necessary function: staying oriented.
It begins with the compass, because a compass still matters. But direction in real wilderness also comes from terrain, slope, water, wind, light, sound, pattern, and the sun, moon, and stars.
A person may have a bearing and still need judgment. A person may drift and need correction. A person may lose the clean line and still hold direction well enough to continue.
This book is about holding direction when the land, the body, and the mind are all involved.
How to Order
If the work fits, send a message.
Email: Terry@FieldAndForgeSystem.com
Let me know which book or books you want, along with your shipping location.
Orders can include one book or any combination of the four.
Prices
Prepare. Survive. Adapt. Grow.™ — $____
Energy of the Night™ — $____
The Land Decides™ — $____
Holding Direction – Navigation Through the Land™ — $____
All prices include tax, shipping, and handling.
International orders will be quoted after receiving your address.
There are no additional charges added later.
Once I receive your message, I will reply to confirm the order and provide PayPal payment details.
Once payment is received, the books are shipped by UPS. A tracking number is provided when the shipment is on its way.
Each order is handled directly. Nothing is automated.
More information will be added as the Field & Forge System™ continues to grow.
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