Yesterday saw me in the woods making a saw horse. Whilst not a particularly portable piece of equipment, in a semi-permanent or permanent camp setting they’re really useful for processing fire wood and provide a degree of safety by reducing the risk of cuts to the supporting hand. In this video I show you how […]
Winter foraging is easily overlooked. Whilst there aren’t as many species around, or indeed those species aren’t generally found in the same quantities, there are still plants around that we can forage. This video shows 8 plant species that I found within around 30 minutes in mid January. I easily found enough plants to make […]
A couple of weeks ago I showed you how to make a mallet with a knife and saw, this week is about making a mallet with an axe. I prefer to make a mallet with an axe, it’s generally quicker and gives a more robust tool. If you’d like to try making a mallet this […]
Last weekend we ran our Bark Containers course and so I recorded some footage to show what goes into making a woven basket from sweet chestnut bark. The process is relatively straightforward – fell a sweet chestnut stem and cut it into manageable lengths; scrape off the outer bark; cut into strips; weave into a […]
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 […]
Staying warm while camping in the winter is clearly important. Even here in Kent temperatures can get relatively low (OK, if you’re in Canada or Sweden reading this, then temperatures of -5°C might seem positively tropical, but it’s still plenty cold enough to cause problems for the unprepared); indeed, the first ever course we ran […]
