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17/11/2021

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Ideas For Extending Your Bushcraft Year Through The Autumn

Autumn brings golden leaf hues, low sun angles, casting long shadows in the afternoon, cold, crisp air as night falls, and Orion coming into view above the horizon, as the skies darken. In my book, these are all aspects of the season to be savoured, positive reasons to be outside, not inside and, ye...

13/07/2021

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03/12/2020

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In Search Of Winter Greenery: Twelve Candidates For Frosty Foraging

Winter is often characterized as a season of dormancy. The winter woods are quiet and sparse. Unlike the evergreen northern forests, the deciduous trees of Britain lose their greenery and leave stark, dark wooden skeletons. When it comes to plants, in foraging books and websites, I often see referen...

11/12/2019

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How To Spot A Dangerous Axe

Before swinging an unfamiliar axe with gusto, make sure the axe is sound. There are some tell-tale signs, indicating an axe is potentially unsafe to use....

01/10/2019

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Tactics For Fire-lighting In The Damp, Cold Months

Fire-lighting damp, cold conditons can be challenging. Here are a range of tips, tricks and tactics for getting your fire going when you most need one...

26/08/2019

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Ten Of The Best European Berries To Forage

Late summer and early autumn is the berry high season. Berries are easy to spot, often grow in quantity and are relatively easy to collect compared to, say, digging up roots and other underground storage organs. Edible berries generally require little processing yet most are also easily preserved as...

29/06/2019

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A Canoe Camping Cookset

Cooking is an important part of most canoe camping trips. Even if you feel like you can take plenty of gear in a canoe, you should still select it carefully...

27/05/2019

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12 Easy-To-Forage European Plants For Spring And Early Summer

Twelve easy-to-recognise European plants to forage for eating and drinking that are prominent in spring and early summer...

26/03/2019

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Spring Cream - Essential European Blossom Identification

Blossom is an obvious, pleasing sign of spring. Here identification features of 9 species of common, widespread blossom-forming European trees are examined.

18/03/2019

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Catkins In Common: Distinct Features Of Three Widespread European Trees

Silver birch, common alder and common hazel might seem really quite different but in fact they are in the same family and share similar family traits...

15/01/2019

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Ten Ways To Boost Your Bushcraft Skills Through The New Year

Want to improve your bushcraft skills through the year? Here's ten specific areas to work on as well as several over-arching principles to keep you right...

15/10/2018

Steven Clarke shows how he makes the perfect cup of Cowboy Coffee using his Kirtley Kettle.

There are many videos showing how to brew the perfect cup of cowboy coffee in the backcountry. This is my step by step instructions to brew the perfect pot t...