This is a straightforward way to find north with your watch. In the UK it works best when we are on Greenwich Mean Time (more or less from the end of March to the end of October). When we’re on British Summer Time, you need to make a slight adjustment and take off an hour. Oh, and […]
Nicola and I spent the day at Wildwood on a fungus identification course. It’s a great place to visit and take the kids for a day and they also hold a large number of workshops and training sessions. This course was led by Steve Kirk; some of you might know him as the editor of The Bushcraft […]
Burdock root is not easy to dig up where we are because of all the flint in the ground. In fact it took 2 of us a good half hour to dig up the 2 roots required for this recipe and we were both worn out at the end of it. So hopefully you will […]
I’ve seen a few posts recently on social media that show people wrapping paracord around the handle of their axe just below the head or else wrapping a piece of leather around the same place. The reason being in case you miss with your axe when chopping and then damaging the handle. I see where this […]
As you may know, we run a carving course a couple of times a year. Some photos from a course we ran in April 2013 are here. It’s a great course to work on your knife and axe skills, both important for your overall bushcraft, but carving a spoon is a fantastic thing to do […]
Sheep sorrel is relatively easy to find and tastes great. Here we use it in a sauce to accompany some mackerel fillets. Although we cooked it over an open fire at our woodland camp, you could just as easily cook it home. If you have any ideas on what else would accompany the sorrel sauce, […]
