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Food :: Foraging
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(Daphne Mezereum Fruit) All that is sweet is not good and all that is sour is not mean. An old quote I don’t know the origin of but I like it for it says about wild fruits, from the acrid but edible rowan to the mild tasting snowberry. To produce poisoning the metabolism of the plant has to produce enough of a compound to react with the metabolism of a person.
There are several thousand macro fungi in Britain so where do you start if you wish to learn about picking them, easy you learn the ones that kill you. I have tried to keep the list to really dangerous ones, that have a likelihood of killing if consumed. I have tried to be a thorough as I can.
There are many good reasons to collect and use birch sap - the most
common uses are for beer, wine and syrup, but birch sap straight from
the tree is reputed to be good for digestion, provide extra energy and
nutrients, and be helpful in treating hayfever.
Burdock 'Heart'. The best part of the burdock for me is the 'heart';
the solid white part extending a few centimetres up from the root.
Rather like an artichoke heart. It has a sweet mild flavour and is good eating.
Latest Articles
| Summer Bushmoot 2008 (02.06.2008) |
 BushMoot, the best event of the year - from 1st -5th August 2008 at Merthyr Mawr in South Wales.
The Moot is now Full |
| Fish Trap (01.04.2008) |
 I used Hazel wood. Choose the
thin long shoots of wood which i would think are a couple of years old.
If you don't catch anything at first don't worry. It may just be a case of
changing a few things.
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| Birch Tar - How to collect it (23.02.2008) |
 Most bushcrafters know that Birch bark is fantastic for fire lighting
because of all the oil concealed within it. This tutorial guides you
through the process of extracting that tar from the bark.
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| Wild Wine (Part 8) (28.11.2007) |
 Now we could bung a label on (which should always say they type of wine and when it was bottled). I suggest you cross-reference to a book of recipes and notes so that when you get a cracking wine you can recreate it. We are going to add a little something to the presentation of the wine by putting a foil cap over the neck. First we drop a foil cap (available for a couple of pence from a wine shop) over the bottle neck.
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| Wild Wine (Part 7) (26.11.2007) |
 Right, we now have clean, fined and filtered wine. We pour it into clean (yes and sterilised) bottles with a funnel. We need to cork it. Its possible to put corks in with a mallet. I use a corking gun and waxed corks that do not need to be soaked (plain corks do)
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| Wild Wine )Part 6) (23.11.2007) |
 Well, the finings have worked – the wine is beautifully clear.
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Most Popular Articles
| Paracord Bracelet Tutorial (23.04.2007) |
 As soon as I'd finished my Paracord Bracelet, I'd decided to write a tutorial on making one. A good thing considering the majority of the responses since I posted it were asking me how to do it! Here goes.. You will need approximately 3 metres of paracord with the ends already sealed/melted, and something to make a temporary knot - a twist tie or piece of string should suffice.
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| Tarps - Benefits and Basic Instructions (16.07.2007) |
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 I have been asked a number of times recently to provide some advice of guidance on the best way to sharpen an axe. Whilst I am always happy to provide input, I thought that it might be worthwhile to put together a tutorial on the basic techniques. The techniques used in here are intended to provide not only a sharp axe but also a safe and efficient axe.
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| Bannock (05.04.2007) |
There was a period in my life where I lived out of a pack for months at a time and this was one of my staples.
I like to coil it like a rope on a stick and bake it over hot coals...
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| Berry Picker (23.04.2007) |
 There are many different ways you can make a berry picker but this is just a design i came up with which uses a packet of kebab skiewers and some discs of wood.
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 The whole kit took less than three hours to finally pull together — though that really overlooks by far the most time-consuming aspect, the preparation of materials. In fact, preparation has two components, actually. The first is the selection of materials. The second is the actual preparation.
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