A slightly different video this time in that it’s not based in the woods. Yesterday Nicola and I went for a walk along the Greensand Ridge with Willow and Ronnie; if you don’t know who Ronnie is, he’s my daughter’s puggle, a pug/beagle cross. He’s a lovely dog but not very good at coming back […]
As usual we will be carrying out some Woodland Management & Camp Maintenance over the winter, in January and February 2020. In no particular order: We have ash dieback in the woods and whilst we are currently planning to leave most of them to die, fall and rot naturally, there are some close to the […]
Inner barks provide us with a great resource in our bushcraft, from making cordage to both folded and woven containers. In this video however I talk about their effectiveness as a tinder. I’ve written about using inner barks as tinder in this post previously, take a look at it in conjunction with this video. In […]
Nicola and I were in the woods yesterday taking a wander around when we found some jelly ear fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae) so we shot this short video in which we show how to find jelly ear fungus, the species that it grows on and how to cook with it. We tend to eat it regularly, […]
We run our spoon carving course a few times over the course of a year and we’ve got one coming up this weekend. Getting ready for a spoon carving course involves checking that all of the tools are sharp and also getting hold of the raw materials. So today we were in the woods felling a […]
Often when I’m out in the woods practicing my bushcraft I find that using power strokes with a knife is going to be the best way forward. The issue lies with the lack of control you often have when using a power stroke. This is because there’s a direct relationship between power and control, the […]
