For me bushcraft is both an exploration and understanding of the natural world. I often try to imagine life for our hunter gather ancestors, looking out of their shelters into the forest and understanding that the supermarket, DIY shop, chemist, clothes shop, are all out there. Winter in the temperate forests of northern Europe would […]
When it comes to foraging for nettles, I find that picking nettle tips is best. We forage nettles regularly from the same few patches around our ancient woodland camp on the Kent Downs and by just taking the tips it seems to encourage new growth so that we can keep going back and harvesting right […]
If it’s the right time of year, eating bramble shoots is just one of the many wonderful things we get up to on our 1 day foraging courses. You can see plenty of photos from these courses, as well as all of our others, on our Facebook page.
As I was in the woods yesterday afternoon with a little time to spare, I made a video talking about some of the bushcraft uses for wood avens (Geum urbanum). I did a video a couple of weeks ago where I picked and ate some hogweed shoots. In that video I pointed out some wood […]
Recently I ran a 1:1 private day with a client and they forgot to bring a packed lunch. Not to worry, we made a foraged lunch instead, using lots of hogweed shoots and some dandelion bhajis. It was delicious! So in this video you can see me cooking hogweed shoots in a cast iron pan […]
Continuing with a look at some common spring time plants and their uses to us in bushcraft, here’s a video in which I talk about some of the many uses for ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea). We often talk about bushcraft uses for ground ivy on our1 Day Foraging course and our Herbal Remedies courses. You can see […]
