Bushcraft is about knowledge and not kit and often that knowledge revolves around the natural world. If you want to make that journey into natural history, trees are a good place to start. So in this video I discuss some of the bushcraft uses for goat willow (Salix caprea). We take a walk around our […]
Twenty odd years ago I was working as a consultant and spent a lot of time driving to and from various sites, and as I was driving along I would often ponder on different subjects. On one particualr drive I found myself musing on what made a conifer a conifer. What’s the difference between conifers […]
In some of our recent videos you can see the bluebells in the background. And what a beautiful sight they make. For me our native bluebells in full bloom in an ancient woodland is one of the great spectacles of the natural wolrld and an event to treasure. We were asked by Adrian, one of […]
We’re fast approaching the time of year for tapping birch trees. If you’re not familiar with what’s meant by the phrase ‘tapping a birch’, it simply means putting a hole in a birch tree to collect its sap, a bit like in the photo below where I used an old fashioned brace and bit to […]
A slightly different video this time in that it’s not based in the woods. Yesterday Nicola and I went for a walk along the Greensand Ridge with Willow and Ronnie; if you don’t know who Ronnie is, he’s my daughter’s puggle, a pug/beagle cross. He’s a lovely dog but not very good at coming back […]
Another awesome article by Jules Bristow; this one was originally published in The Bushcraft Journal in 2016. While there is much debate over the precise meaning of the term bushcraft and its overlap with the term survival, to my mind bushcraft is the set of skills necessary to live comfortably and enjoyably in the wild […]
