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 both an exploration and understanding of the natural world. I often try to imagine life for our hunter gather ancestors, looking out of their shelters into the forest and understanding that the supermarket, DIY shop, chemist, clothes shop, are all out there. Winter in the temperate forests of northern Europe would […]
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 […]
I was a big fan of Star Trek as a child; this was back in the days of Captain Kirk, Spock, McCoy and a sacrificial guy in a red top who would invariably die. Of course, it was all very tongue in cheek and good light-hearted entertainment. It seemed like every few episodes the USS […]
Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) is one of my favourite tree species, which is good because we have lots of it in our ancient woodland in Kent! Here’s a short video where I discuss some of the identification points for hornbeam and also some of the bushcraft uses for hornbeam. We take a walk around our woodland […]
