A simple recipe to make wild Mediterranean big beans using foraged plants. This has quickly become one of my favourites! Ingredients 1 red onion, finely sliced 150g of prepared nettles 1 tin of butter beans (drained) 1 tin of chopped tomatoes 1 tbsp of runny honey ½ tsp of dried chilli flakes 1 tsp of […]
For me bushcraft is about exploring and understanding the natural world. I often try to imagine life for our hunter gather ancestors, looking out of their shelters into the forest and knowing that the supermarket, DIY shop, chemist and clothes shop are all out there, it’s just a case of what to look for, where […]
What’s it about? Fish and small game made up an important part of our hunter gatherer ancestors diet, meaning that hand knitted net making was a crucial skill to master. A net is an openwork fabric in which threads are fused, looped or knotted at their intersections at regular intervals and have long been used […]
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 […]
I wrote a post last year with a few common plants that can be used in a herbal tea, so take a look at it. In this video I made a simple herbal infusion for hayfever using ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea) and nettle (Urtica dioica) leaves. Whilst it’s good for dealing with hayfever, it’s also […]
Now in it’s 7th year, we’ll be starting Bushcraft Club on Tuesday 7th July at 6:30pm from our ancient woodland camp in Westwell, Kent, just a few miles from Ashford. After much thought we’ve decided that this year we will run Bushcraft Club for adults only; normally on Family Bushcraft Club we have more people […]
