It’s that time of year to get out and about foraging for rosehips. So here’s a short video looking at rosehips, why you need to be careful eating them and a couple of ideas on what to do with them. Here’s the recipe for rosehip syrup and another for rosehip and crab apple jam. Depending […]
Making a wedge is a useful trick to help out if your knife gets stuck in a piece of wood, of course you need to make the wedge before your knife gets stuck! Here’s a short video demonstrating how to make a wedge and how to use it to get your knife out of a […]
A short video where I talk about beech masts, or nuts and why not every year is bountiful. Beech nuts are one of the many things we talk about on our 1 Day Foraging Courses and our 2 Day Fruits & Fungus Forage. You can see photos from both of these courses, as well as […]
A short video where I talk about blackthorn, sloes and sloe gin! How to make sloe gin Freeze 500g of sloes for a couple of hours before pouring into a jar Add 1 litre of vodka and 250g of sugar, put on the lid and put in a dark cupboard Shake daily until the sugar […]
Lighting a fire with birch bark is something that I do regularly, generally in combination with a fire steel. More often than not I’ll peel bark from a live tree, occassionally I’ll cut a strip from a dead one. In this video I discuss these two approaches in more detail. We teach using birch bark […]
Last week I made a video showing how to make an improvised water filter. This week I thought I’d do one around the various chemicals we can use to purify water. We teach using chemicals to purify water on our 2 Day Bushcraft Course,5 Day Bushcraft Course and the Institute for Outdoor Learning Bushcraft Competency course. You can see photos […]
