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I recently watched an interesting interview with biochemist Dr. Shane Simonson talking about zero input agriculture. He claims his food garden requires no watering, no fertilizers, no pesticides and only minimal weeding and maintenance yet it would be able to feed his family if required. He has...

Some advice is needed to help me choose the material for a new knife. Due to having small hands I have decided to buy one of the new TBS Lynx Compact knives to use as a general multi-purpose camp knife. It will be used for things like food prep, making fires, wood carving and to help when...

Does anyone own one of these or ever used one? I'm considering getting one but they're rather pricey so would like to know what other peoples experience of them have been like. The reviews on the Buffalo website sound positive. When I spoke to Buffalo on the phone they told me that it's made...

I’m not sure if this will be of any interest to anyone but I thought I would share impressions of my favorite knife, the Victorinox Soldier's Knife 08 (bottom). This is the actual model which is currently issued to all Swiss and German soldiers. I’ll also compare it to another popular Victorinox...

How are you guys and gals going to view the solar eclipse later?

Does anyone has a spare Survive GSO 2.7 which they don't use?

I’m looking for suggestions for a small bushcraft style camp knife. It won’t be used for chopping or batoning, I just want a small slicer for general camp tasks which will include things like food prep, cord cutting and basic wood carving. It will also often be used and kept in a damp...

Helle Mandra I have a brand new unused Helle Mandra knife for sale. This is another knife which I bought it on a whim a couple of years ago because I thought it looked cool (it does!) but then never actually used and it has sat in a draw ever since. The Mandra knife was developed by Helle and...

Fallkniven F1 Anniversary Edition I have a brand new unused Fallkniven F1 Anniversary special edition knife for sale. I bought it on a whim two years ago when it first came out. Initially Fallkniven intended this Anniversary Edition to be the only version of the standard shape F1 which would be...

After reading the Elusive “One Knife” for Bushcraft thread it got me thinking how no single knife could ever really be good at all tasks big and small. However I do think that two well chosen paired knives could come close to being able to to everything to a very high level of competence. This...

Hello all :) I'm interested in learning about trapping birds and small mammals such as rabbits and would like to know if there are any good books to use as a reference on the subject. I've looked on Amazon and there are a couple of trapping books there such as the The Trapper's Bible and...

Victorinox Classic honing steel - £19 Opinel honing steel - £35 Fallkniven C10 ceramic sharpener - £41 I'm looking to buy a honing rod from a reputable company to keep my kitchen knives and a billhook sharp. Would it be worth spending a bit of extra cash on the Fallkniven or Opinel honing rod...

New farming laws mean that Dartmoor Ponies are at risk of becoming extinct due to new culling rules. :( How ironic that one of England's most famous wild animals which have lived and grazed on Dartmoor since the bronze age are now at risk of becoming extinct due to new 're-wilding' laws. This...

Over the past year or so I’ve been on a bit of a spending spree buying new, good quality outdoor working clothes to replace the cheap, low quality stuff that I had previously been using. My selections were based on a considerable amount of advice and suggestions provided from this forum (thank...

I need to upgrade my underpants! :D At the moment I have some Premark cotton boxer shorts which do the job alright but want to get something better. I already own several other Keela products which I'm very happy with so my initial thought was to get some merino wool boxers from them...

At the weekends I get plenty of exercise. Lots of walking, pushing heavy wheelbarrows uphills, moving heavy 75Ah leisure batteries around for electric fences, bashing in wooden fence posts, sawing branches off hedges, trimming foliage and nettles by hand using shears, raking up horse poo from...

Hello all. :) Following on from my previous thread last week asking about mid-layers during winter I now have another question. When out on Dartmoor during the wintertime I currently wear a British army surplus sleeved base layer top (to be replaced by a Keela merino wool one soon). Then on top...

We have a threads for books, music and computer games but non for films. So I thought I'd get the ball rolling...

Hello all of you knowledgeable outdoorsy guys and gals. :) Some advice and suggestions would be appreciated. In between doing horse and field maintenance jobs I sometimes spend hours at a time just standing around or sitting down outside without doing much. During the winter times it can get...

The sun farted in Earths direction recently causing aurora visible as far south as Devon last night. If there's a gap in the clouds tonight they may be visible again.