Rosehips are the fruits found on roses, and they are ready at around this time of year. They’re rich in Vitamin C and rosehip syrup is very tasty. This photo is of people collecting rosehips on our autumn foraging course. You might want to take a look at this post on different edible fruits and […]
A quick and easy recipe to make delicious chestnut and mushroom soup. We made this for lunch at the weekend on our 2 Day Fruits & Fungus Forage. The photo below is Milly, Megan and Sam foraging for field mushrooms on a somewhat windswept morning! Ingredients Serves 4 Olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 2 […]
Outer barks are a great resource for fire lighting and provide us with another tool in our bushcraft repertoire. In this video I talk about using a few outer barks as a tinder, including birch, cherry, hornbeam, honeysuckle and clematis. I’ve written about using outer barks as tinder in this post previously, take a look at […]
The rosette cut is a great little technique for cross cutting small rounds of greenwood such as hazel, ash, sycamore, willow etc. If I’m dealing with seasoned rounds it’s sometimes easier to just snap them, but often the green stems I’ve just listed will bend before they break, so it’s often easier to just cut […]
I often use various herbal ointments that we’ve made ourselves so in this video I show you how to make a herbal ointment using self heal (Prunella vulgaris). It’s a great little plant and the ointment made from it can be used on cuts and sores as well as aches and pains. The 2 ointments […]
Nicola had some spare self heal infused olive oil and so we thought we’d put together a quick video showing you how to make self heal cream. Self heal (Prunella vulgaris) is a small, low, creeping herb, a member of the dead nettles, and has the familiar square stem and a delicate purple flower. It […]
