Gather tough grasses or rushes and make a basket of your own.

Her baskets, mats, and nets woven from tough grasses, roots, and barks were exceptional.

A few flowering herbs and miniature shrubs persisted, and the tough grasses and sedges covered sizable patches.

Then she gathered long tough grasses, and looped them together until she had made a cord, with which she bound the waxen posy.

Tough grasses survived on the dry, windy landscape, but trees were almost entirely absent.