Posts tagged in 'nature'

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’.

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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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Rafting with the BBC.

Firefox Bushcraft’s Heath Dawson builds a raft with BBC Countryfile’s presenter Ellie Harrison, to see what happens next you will have to watch on the 9th October…

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Grass Snake vs. Toad

Just outside my back door, a grim battle of life and death as a Grass snake (Natrix natrix) tries to swallow an inflated (defence mechanism) Toad (Bufo bufo) for over an hour before i had to leave, the final outcome …

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One way of making Birch Syrup

Collect your sap, drill your hole with a sterilised drillbit and insert the tap or ‘spigot’. I’ve customised a ‘speedy spigot’ from a piece if pipe, a small length of tube inserted into the pipe with …

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