I was talking about using forked sticks for debris shelters at the weekend on our IOL Bushcraft Competency Certificate training course and thought that I’d do a video expalining the difference between a forked stick and a ‘Y’shaped stick. Intrigued? Take a look. We teach about using ‘Y’ shaped and forked sticks for debris shelters […]
When you’re camping overnight, insulating yourself from the ground is imperative to not only getting a good night’s sleep but to staying warm. This is because you will lose heat to the ground through conduction and so you need to get some insulation between you and the ground. This could be a roll mat or […]
Now in it’s 8th year, we’ll be starting Bushcraft Club on Wednesday 5th May 2021 at 6:30pm from our ancient woodland camp in Westwell, Kent, just a few miles from Ashford. Bushcraft Club is for over 16s only. It will run for 8 weeks on a Wednesday evening from 6:30pm until 8:30pm (or so) starting […]
After mistakenly telling everyone last week that I’d done a video previously on using downy flower heads as a tinder, and then realising that I hadn’t, here’s one! I talk about how downy flower heads are best used as a tinder and also show a few different ones that you can find in the British […]
A post from Nicola. All about dandelions There are more than 30 different species of dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) around the world. The dandelion grows in lawns, fields, meadows and roadside verges, in fact it can pop up almost anywhere. It is a member of the Asteraceae family (daisy family). It is a dicotyledon, which means […]
This is the fifth in a series of videos on the topic of natural tinders for bushcraft after previously covering inner barks, outer barks, fungus and downey flower heads. But of course there’s always things that don’t fit into any catergory, so this video is about some of the other natural tinders that we can […]
