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a weekend bushcraft course | bushcraft club 2019 | Ashford | Canterbury | Kent

A weekend bushcraft course

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 […]


Bushcraft Club 2019

Now in it’s sixth year, we’ll be starting Bushcraft Club again in the first week of May.  This year we’re trying something a little different and have decided to run seperate sessions for families and adults, allowing us to cover more challenging subjects on the adults only sessions. Bushcraft Club is based at our ancient […]

a weekend bushcraft course | bushcraft club 2019 | Ashford | Canterbury | Kent

ticks and lymes disease

Living with Lyme Disease 1

This article was originally published in The Bushcraft Journal issue 8 in April 2016.  Thanks to its author Robin Tynan for allowing us to reprint it here.  Take a look at Robin’s blog here. In October 2011 I was at an event at a scout camp in Leicestershire. It was an unusually warm weekend for […]


Ticks and Lyme Disease 1

This article was originally published in The Bushcraft Journal issue 8 in April 2016.  Thanks to its author Jules Bristow for allowing us to reprint it here.  Jules studied chemical ecology and is a keen amateur naturalist and bushcrafter who we are delighted to have as part of the Jack Raven Bushcraft team. What lurks […]

ticks and lymes disease

Checklist for winter driving

Checklist for winter driving

Whilst we’re primarily a bushcraft company we teach a couple of survival courses as well, there’s a lot of crossover and commonality.  Your biggest survival skill is to not get in a survival situation in the first place and that’s all about preparation. This morning as I drove to our woodland camp there was snow […]