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  1. Mang

    Fire, Ferment & Smoke's Open Fire Cooking Course

    Last weekend I attended Fire, Ferment & Smoke's (***) Open Fire Cooking Course just outside of Bedford. It's a fairly new adventure set up by former Woodland Ways instructors Kevan Palmer and Adam Logan and is held in an open barn so the setting is all weather. The parking is in an easy to find...
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    Napsack Hammocks' A.B.C. Tarp Prototype

    I recently received the A.B.C. tarp prototype from Napsack Hammocks to look over which is exciting in itself, but the fact this is an ongoing collaboration between us is kid in a sweet shop moment. When I was initially researching tarps I came to the conclusion that the 3m x 3m was a popular...
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    Horseradish Cordage Powered Bowdrill

    You might have chanced upon a video challenge by a lovely lady called Sally Pointer, amongst other things she does self styled 'hedge bothering' videos and one that caught my eye a while ago is on prepping horseradish leaves to make cordage. I will always try and cite where I got an idea in a...
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    Paul Smith Primitive Pottery Day

    If I attend a course or do of some kind I won't always shout about it across forums and social media but I am with the recent Paul Smith Primitive Pottery day that I've just attended. Hosted near Basingstoke by Dan (Bushcraft UK Wilderness Living Skills) Aylmer we were taken through the...
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    Kevan Palmer Fermentation Workshop

    In the past I've had a dabble at lacto-fermenting spring greens so I'm really chuffed to have got myself onto a fermentation workshop that bushcraft instructor Kevan Palmer is running in 2019 on Feb 8th and May 31st. It covers all mannner of things such as keffir, kimchi and yoghurt making to...
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    Forthcoming Roger Phillips Wild Cooking book

    I'm sure many of you will be familiar with Roger's Mushroom and Wild Food books and he has a new one that is currently on a crowd fund called Wild Cooking. It's on the Unbound website and the link is here if anyone wants to look/ pledge. No connections and all that jazz...
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    Fire Wood Kuksa

    Thought I'd sling some pictures up of a kuksa I've recently completed. It's spalted Birch and I spotted it, rather fortuitously, in a big of Big K firewood. It is kiln dried and was hard in parts and fragile on the peripheries and several bits did come off during it's making. I've left the odd...
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    Excellent Bushnell Customer Service

    I had a problem with my Bushnell trail cam when I recently wild camped in Hatfield Forest with Woodlife Trails. The company asked me to send it back and, well, customer service doesn't get much better than this so I feel the need to tell everyone...
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    Hatfield Forest NT Wild Camp (with Woodlife Trails)

    I posted a quick review about a Hatfield Forest National Trust Wild Camp that Woodlife Trails oversaw a few years ago in the Out and About section. I've just been on one at the beginning of June and there is another towards the end of this month, there are normally two a year and for some...
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    Justin Burke tomahawk and Q and A

    I recently treated myself to a tomahawk from America as an early birthday present. It was made by a Tennessee blacksmith called Justin Burke who folk may have seen on Ben Fogle's 'Lives in the Wild' series. It was a bit of an indulgence on my part (I don't normally do indulgence) and even...
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    A non-EU custom charges tale (beware!)

    I'm not usually an impulsive kit buyer and I'm certainly not a kit tart, but since seeing Ben Fogle visit Tennessee to spend time with blacksmith Justin Burke I've really fancied one of his tomahawks. You of course pay a premium for bespoke goods and despite the postage being eye watering I...
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    John Rhyder bark workshop

    I recently attended a bark workshop that John Rhyder ran at the Weald and Downland museum in Sussex. It was a bit of a journey but was well worth it, not only content wise but to get some tutelage from him. He does several different courses of various lengths and subjects there. I've done a blog...
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    Shop purchased silver birch sap

    As the birch tapping window gets ever closer I was interested to see that Waitrose is selling birch sap in the fresh juice section. Despite the appearance of the word water in the title is it actually 100% sap. Not cheap at £2.49 but it offers folk a taste who haven't got the opportunity (or...
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    My bowdrill journey

    Bit of a cheesy title but I realised that I hadn't yet done a bowdrill page for my blog so I set about knocking one up..And as I put some bits down it just grew and grew to become my journey thus far with notes on knots I use, cordage and oh, lots more. The link is here if anyone would like a...
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    The Wild Food and Chilli Fair, Essex

    I attended this show on Sunday and I thought I'd chuck a link to it on the forum to give it a bit of a push for next year. It was the first one so almost predictably there were some teething troubles, notably a lack of local signage and the fact that the show was spread out over a large area...
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    Encouraging bushcrafters into Scouting

    I know that putting this in leaders chatter is preaching to the converted, but it seems sort of right too as it's a blog about selling scouting to bushcrafters and getting them involved. I've covered what I've put in (and got out) of Scouting with bushcraft and peppered it with pictures of...
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    Survival Skills badge's Victorinox sponsorship.

    I have been helping the corporate dept at Gilwell for some months with the sponsorship by Victorinox of Scout section's Survival Skills badge. Whilst I wasn't involved in all parts of the decision making I'm pleased I was on board to at least influence the bits I had access to. There's more than...
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    Proposed Bushcraft magazine reference thread

    I’ve recently compiled an article reference for the issues of Bushcraft magazine (http://www.bushcraft-magazine.co.uk/) that I have with a view to posting a thread on here and my blog, the only trouble is that I’m missing a fair few. I messaged the Bushcraft magazine on Facebook recently with...
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    Wild food interpretation Scout survival badge

    Re the Scout Survival badge, I had a little think about what reasonably available foodstuffs (both natural and interpreted) the Scouts could have available to them to make their survival meals from. From nature they can of course consume nettles, either via a pot or roasted on the stem (plus the...
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    Mackerel fishing hints and tips

    I've got a holiday in Brixham coming up and I'm looking to try my hand at mackerel fishing off the harbour wall. If there are any seasoned mackerel fisherman out there I'd appreciate any tips. If I'm right it's wait for high tide and reel the lure, then pull the rod up every now and then to make...