We make woven and folded containers on our Cordage & Containers day and sometimes we have a little left over. This was the case on our last such course back in June and whilst the bark had dried out it became more than pliable enough to make a plaited bark strap after soaking for a […]
When we teach debris shelters we always make a big deal about the importance of getting off the floor. It’s incredibly important to get get something between you and the ground as the ground will literally suck the heat right out of you. So here’s a video of Peter making a bed for a debris […]
Family Bushcraft Club Now in it’s sixth year, we’ll be running Family Bushcraft Club again from Tuesday 16th July until Tuesday 3rd September 2019. Family Bushcraft Club is intended for parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and their children; it will run for 8 weeks on a Tuesday evening from 6:30pm until 8:30pm. If you’d like to […]
I’ve written previously about how to light a fire but haven’t really mentioned much about what makes good firewood, or indeed what isn’t so good. Hopefully this post will put that straight., As a heads up, I’m focusing on being in the woods and sourcing firewood rather than ordering it up for your wood burner at […]
Now that our season of scheduled courses has come to end, we’re starting to think about some of the camp maintenance jobs we’d like to get done. In no particular order: The yurt We want to change the roof on the yurt. It’s lasted 2 years and works ok, but it has started to sag […]
We really can’t thank Harry, Richard, Renato, Jason, Kev and Anthony enough for helping us put up a new tarp over the camp kitchen. Here are a few photos from the camp maintenance weekend.. You can view more photos on our Facebook page.
