Eating burdock roots is a great way to get your daily intake of carbohydrates. Burdock (Arctium lappa) is often found along woodland rides, hedgerows, verges and waste ground and is a fairly distinctve plant. If you’re not sure take a look at this post I wrote a few years back that highlights the differences […]
Hogweed (Heracleum sphondilium) is a common plant in the British Isles and can be found along verges, in hedgerows, tracks and on the sides of fields. It’s fairly recognisable but take care not to confuse it with giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum). We’re eating hogweed regularly at this time of year, it’s one of my favourite […]
The old bushcraft adage of ‘the more you know, the less you need to carry’ is especially true when it comes to foraging. And it’s not just about what you can eat but also what you can find to make a tasty hot drink. I’m a big tea drinker and so I’m especially fond of […]
This video was taken on our 2 Day Bushcraft Course in April 2019. It was a bit of a chilly weekend, as you can see from us all wearing hats and scarves! But we still packed a bunch of stuff in, including knife safety and cutting techniques, fire lighting, cordage, foraging, tarps & hammocks, knife […]
I’ve previously written posts on finding water and filtering water, for this post I want to take a look at different ways of chemically purifying water using commercial, shop bought products. Broadly speaking, for chemical purification we have 3 chemicals at our disposal: Iodine, Chlorine, and Chlorine dioxide. There are many products on the market […]
Hopefully you’ve already read this post on finding water, if not take a quick look. Here I want to look at filtering, that is removing solids, often refered to as particles or particulates, from water. That could be tiny pieces of soil, leaf or other organic matter that you can see floating around. It’s important […]
