Earlier this year I put together a post on charring birch polypore for tinder and it works really well. Which got me thinking about other fungus that could be charred and used as tinder. Last week I found a chicken of the woods and decided to give it a go. So here’s a short video […]
I’ve written posts previously about ash die back in our ancient woodland. Over the last 3 winters we’ve felled in the region of 300 ash trees in and around our main camp. Generally speaking they’ve been small diameter trees and relatively easy to deal with. But we had a bunch of ash along the woodland […]
I always like to find the easy way to do things when I’m practicing bushcraft. Firewood is a good example, why saw if you don’t need to. Here’s a couple of alternatives to sawing firewood. We talk about cutting firewood (or not) fire on our 1 Day,2 Day & 5 Day Bushcraft Courses as well as the IOL Bushcraft Competency […]
