Both Nicola and I love running the Wildfoods and Woodland Cooking course; it’s right up there with our favourites. Anything that involves eating good food is fine by me. But we’ve restricted ourselves to running theses courses in the spring. We get asked regularly if we do any foraging for mushrooms and we always have to […]
We teach debris shelters on our 2 Day Bushcraft and 5 Day Bushcraft courses, mostly 1 person shelters rather than a 2 person debris shelter. We tend to focus on the structure of the shelter, so making sure that it’s robust and won’t collapse, but don’t spend too much time covering them. We have some […]
I was looking for some holiday photos when I found a folder on my computer with some bushcraft photos. So I’ve shared a few here for you all to see! I’m pretty sure that the first photo was taken in about 2002 somewhere about then and the next 2 in about 2003 – 04, or […]
Last week we ran our Axe Workshop. Ho Kyung came along and brought a reproduction bronze axe head. Ho Kyung’s girlfriend, Julie, is an archaeologist and lent him the axe head on the strict understanding he look after it. He promptly forgot it and left it at our woodland camp. I have it in safe keeping […]
Wood turning on a pole lathe is great fun and a useful skill. Dave attended our ‘Blacksmithing, Bodging & Bushcraft’ course in September and sent these photos to us. They are the before and after shots of a billhook. The left hand side are the before photos and the right hand side are photos of […]
We ran our axe course over the last weekend and had a great time. The axe is a really versatile tool and makes many bushcraft tasks much quicker, but it needs to be treated with respect. You can’t afford to make mistakes with an axe as the consequences can be nasty. We place a lot […]
