Otter Tracking.

Here’s a few tips on identifying the tracks and signs of the Otter (Lutra lutra).

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Boomerang

 

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Famine foods

Foraging for wildfood in lean times.

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Bushcraft improvisation

Here’s a quick idea to save on weight and expense when cooking out on the trail.

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Israel Trip

Hello from Israel, here’s a recent trip up the Wadi at Ein Gedi in Israel to see Nubian Ibex and Rock Hyrax-

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Green Woodworking project-a Log Mule.

American writer Wendell Berry sums up the holistic nature of working natural materials-

‘The good worker loves the board before it becomes a table, loves the tree before it yields the board, loves the forest before it gives up the tree’.

It’s …

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Looking for a ‘Mini Bushcraft Adventure’ during the school holidays?

Do something adventurous with the family in 2012.

Firefox are offering Swedish tentipi hire for up to 4 people for £65/night from Sunday – Thursday and £75/night Friday and Saturday and bank holidays, Minimum 3 night bookings. Add a one person …

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Flint knapping-primitive technology

Just back from a flint-knapping weekend hosted by Dryad bushcraft and taught by the excellent Karl lee.

 

With a very primitive tool kit…

 

Karl demonstrated how to knap a hand axe…

 

and a great arowhead…

 

We made flint hide scrapers…

 

prepared Hazel arrowshafts, flint arrowheads …

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Craig Forde, the stig of canoeing.

Many thanks to Craig Forde of SAS Outdoors (www.sasoutdoors.co.uk) for the absolutely sterling job of providing the safety boat as well as acting as a camera platform for the BBC staff! Craig or ‘Spud’ as he is better known  helped …

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Autumn Acorns

Collect the Acorns, mash them up, leach out the tannins in flowing water, dry and shell them, grind them up, roast them for coffee or add the Acorn flour to other ingredients for a bannock.These acorns were roasted in a …

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