Yesterday found me charring birch polypore for tinder. Charred birch polypore (Piptoporus betulinus) makes a great tinder as I described in this post a couple of years ago all about using various fungus as tinder. I found them on 2 different fallen birch as I was wandering around the woods. The process is essentially the same […]
Our hunter gatherer ancestors in the British Isles consumed plenty of fish, taking advantage of streams, rivers, coastal areas and lakes. In fact some studies have concluded that up to 60% of a hunter gatherer’s diet was made up of fish. So in this short video I show how to gut and fillet a trout. We […]
Fish made up a significant part of hunter gatherer diets in northern Europe, according to this study. They might have caught those fish on a hook, similar to the ones we make on our Primitive Fishing Kits course, or with a net, a trap or a fishing spear. In this video I show you how […]
