We run our spoon carving course a few times over the course of a year and we’ve got one coming up this weekend. Getting ready for a spoon carving course involves checking that all of the tools are sharp and also getting hold of the raw materials. So today we were in the woods felling a […]
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 […]
After our recent Cordage & Containers course we had some spare sweet chestnut bark and so Nicola decided to make another folded bark container, this one rectangular in shape. We’ve made cylindrical ones before but this time Nicola wanted to make a recantuglar one after seeing a photo of one by Christian Meinhardt and thinking […]
I’m a big fan of rabbit casserole, we often eat it on our Survival Courses. So I thought I’d write up the recipe that we use; obviously Nicola included some wild ingredients! Ingredients The ingredients are for 8 people. 2 rabbits 2 onions, sliced 2 sticks of cellery, sliced 2 carrots, sliced 2 parsnips, sliced […]
When I’m out and about practicing my bushcraft, I like to find the easiest and most efficient way of doing things. I don’t want to expend energy unnecessarily and so using simple techniques can often be more rewarding than might be imagined. With that in mind, here’s a great little method of carrying firewood using […]
An often recited mantra in bushcraft is that the more you know the less you have to carry. The flip side of this, of course, is that the less you carry the more you have to make. Often the things I find myself making require greenwood and so need to be pruned from a live […]
