This weeks post is about bushcraft uses for wild cherry, including as a wild edible, a tinder and for carving. We take a walk around our woodland looking at trees and their uses, including wild cherry, on many of our courses, such as our1 Day Bushcraft Fundamentals,2 Day Bushcraft Courses and our 5 Day Bushcraft Courses. […]
Here’s a short video where I show you how to tell apart hornbeam and beech buds We take a walk around our woodland looking at trees and their uses, including how to tell apart hornbeam and beech buds, on many of our courses, such as our 1 Day Bushcraft Fundamentals, 2 Day Bushcraft Courses and […]
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 […]
It’s that time of year to get out and about foraging for rosehips. So here’s a short video looking at rosehips, why you need to be careful eating them and a couple of ideas on what to do with them. Here’s the recipe for rosehip syrup and another for rosehip and crab apple jam. Depending […]
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 […]
