After mistakenly telling everyone last week that I’d done a video previously on using downy flower heads as a tinder, and then realising that I hadn’t, here’s one! I talk about how downy flower heads are best used as a tinder and also show a few different ones that you can find in the British […]
A post from Nicola. All about dandelions There are more than 30 different species of dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) around the world. The dandelion grows in lawns, fields, meadows and roadside verges, in fact it can pop up almost anywhere. It is a member of the Asteraceae family (daisy family). It is a dicotyledon, which means […]
This is the fifth in a series of videos on the topic of natural tinders for bushcraft after previously covering inner barks, outer barks, fungus and downey flower heads. But of course there’s always things that don’t fit into any catergory, so this video is about some of the other natural tinders that we can […]
Starting a fire with a bow drill is probably the single most iconic skill within bushcraft. I haven’t practiced for a little while and so yesterday I decided to change that. And then I decided that I might as well make a video showing the process. So for the video I used a lime hearth […]
In this video I talk about using fungus as a tinder and include King Alfred’s cakes, birch polypore, hoof fungus and chaga. When ignited they create an ember and not a flame, so you might want to take a refresher at my post on tinder bundles. Here’s the video, leave any thoughts you might have […]
Birch tapping is something that many foragers and bushcrafters look forward to at this time of year. In this video I explain an alternative method that is much less harmful to the tree. In the video mention some guidelines that exist on tapping birch trees; you can find out more about them in this post, […]
