Nathanael Rhody

About Nathanael Rhody

Nathanael Rhody is a husband and father to a tribe of homeschool children. He partly grew up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and partly in Venezuela and Guatemala. He has worked and lived on small farms in Germany, Britain, and Northern Wisconsin as well as working in carpentry, logging, landscaping, and building maintenance.

He received a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in German and Scandinavian Studies with a minor in Anthropology. Old World History and Germanic Languages are his passion with a special emphasis on a “hands-on” approach to understanding cultures of the past. He has previously been involved in Historical Reenactment and Living History and has taught an after-school class on Sword and Buckler fencing.

He has given several talks to conferences covering subjects from the origins of skis to permaculture topics as well as a maintaining blog in which he presents forgotten practices, tools and customs from rural life of centuries past.

He is passionate about learning and getting others excited about times long ago and places far away. To do this, book-learning is tempered with being outdoors, using your hands and working with natural materials.