Splitting kindling is a useful technique when you’re finding if difficult to source dry materials to light your fire. Whilst there are different ways to split kindling, in this video I show one of my favourite methods, using a ‘support stick’ to hold the wood still so that I can use my axe with one […]
Here’s a short video where I show you how to tell apart hornbeam and beech buds We take a walk around our woodland looking at trees and their uses, including how to tell apart hornbeam and beech buds, on many of our courses, such as our 1 Day Bushcraft Fundamentals, 2 Day Bushcraft Courses and […]
For me bushcraft is about exploring and understanding the natural world. I often try to imagine life for our hunter gather ancestors, looking out of their shelters into the forest and knowing that the supermarket, DIY shop, chemist and clothes shop are all out there, it’s just a case of what to look for, where […]
Using punk wood as a tinder is a great way to go about fire lighting. Punk wood is what’s left of wood after a dry rot has been through it. It’s one of those that you tend to find as you’re wandering around, often without deliberately trying to find it. It will ignite with a […]
After a short break over Christmas and New Year I’ve decided to carry on with the tree theme from the previous 2 posts and take a look at some of the bushcraft uses for western red cedar (Thuja plicata). I don’t often discuss non-native species, or conifers (although I did write this post about conifers […]
