Recently I made some birch oil using a couple of tins. First time around wasn’t as successful as I’d hoped due to the shape of 1 of the tins, but the second attempt was great. It’s a great resource and can be used to protect wood and leather items such as axe handles and knife […]
As a conifer, yew (Taxus baccata) doesn’t produce a true berry but rather a modified cone in which the scales have fused together. Whilst all other parts of yew are poisonous, the berry is edible, except the seed inside which is poisonous. We look at yew berries on our 1 day foraging course as well as on […]
I wrote this post on edible and poisonous berries a few years ago, it covers a lot of berries and is well worth a look if I say so myself. However, this time around I take a look at 3 different plants that are poisonous and weave and wend their way through the hedgerow, often […]
I wrote a post several years ago on how to ret lime bark to make cordage. I’ve had in mind the idea of trying the same thing with sweet chestnut for a while now and finally got around to it this year. So here’s a short video on how to produce the fibres to make […]
A couple of years ago I put together a video talking about the usefulness of bracken as a tinder in the winter and more recently another showing you how to light a fire with a bracken tinder bundle, with a little help from a King Alfred’s Cake. One of the questions that I’ll often get […]
A couple of years ago I put together a video talking about the usefulness of bracken as a tinder in the winter. In this video I show you how to light a fire with a bracken tinder bundle, with a little help from a King Alfred’s Cake. Brackens behaves differently to hay in a tinder […]
