Bushcraft is about knowledge and not kit and often that knowledge revolves around the natural world. If you want to make that journey into natural history, trees are a good place to start. So in this video I discuss some of the bushcraft uses for goat willow (Salix caprea). We take a walk around our […]
I wrote this post on manmade tinders a couple of years ago so watch this video in conjunction with that post. Here I explain why I think carrying a few manmade tinders is a good idea and also show which ones I typically carry with me when I venture into the woods. We talk about […]
Using potassium permanganate to light a fire is one of the ignition methods often discussed in various forums. Whilst it’s a straightforward technique it isn’t in my fire lighting kit. In this video I show you how to light a fire using potassium permanganate and glycerin and also discuss why I don’t think it’s entirely […]
I’ve written previously about lighting a fire with wire wool and a battery in this article which was originally published in The Bushcraft Journal in 2016. But as a picture is worth a thousand words, I thought I’d do a short video showing you how to do this, and also include a few of my […]
After mistakenly telling everyone last week that I’d done a video previously on using downy flower heads as a tinder, and then realising that I hadn’t, here’s one! I talk about how downy flower heads are best used as a tinder and also show a few different ones that you can find in the British […]
This is the fifth in a series of videos on the topic of natural tinders for bushcraft after previously covering inner barks, outer barks, fungus and downey flower heads. But of course there’s always things that don’t fit into any catergory, so this video is about some of the other natural tinders that we can […]
