Last week I put together a video showing you how to light a fire using goosegrass ignited with a fire steel. In this video I show you how to light a fire with a goosegrass tinder bundle, with a little help from a King Alfred’s Cake. Goosegrass behaves differently to hay in a tinder bundle […]
Goosegrass (Galium aparine), also known as cleavers, sticky weed, sweetheart and a bunch of other names, is a useful plant for us in bushcraft. You can eat it as well as use it in firelighting. In this video I use a ferrocerium rod to ignite it and light a fire. Lighting a fire with goosegrass […]
When I’m teaching bow drilling I often get asked about using hardwoods or softwoods. I’m not keen on those terms as they mean different things to different people. In this video I explain why I don’t like ‘hardwood’ and ‘softwood’, and also what I find a more useful way to describe the materials used in […]
Whilst not all woodland owners are particularly keen on sycamore due to their propensity to take over, I quite like them! In this video I talk a little about sycamore and their uses in a bushcraft setting. We look at various tree species including bushcraft uses for sycamore on many of our courses, such as […]
We’ve had two beech trees in our woodland drop sizable limbs recently so I thought I’d put this video together explaining why I advise against camping under one. We look at various tree species and their uses in a bushcraft setting, including why we don’t camp under a beech, on many of our courses, such […]
I made a video a couple of years ago on how to make a wedge, so I thought it was about time I put a video together showing you how to use that wedge. We teach using a wedge to retrieve a stuck knife, along with many other techniques and knife safety, on our 2 Day & 5 […]
