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    What is this mushroom?

    I am stepping cautiously into the world of mushrooms, and there is a patch of small brown mushrooms packed close together, that look like a mound of hazelnuts that are in the garden, a tiny white thing in a flowerpot in the toilet, and then this bracket fungus I found up the woods, Ive got one...
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    Rember me?

    Hello, I was a member of BCUK for a while last year, (Greenleaf) but I have lost the email that account is connected with and I wanted a fresh start. I have access to a 500 acre farm, with a variety of types of woodland. I have two air rifles, a .22 and a .177 I am only 14 but this time last...
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    Im back!

    Not that anyone remembers me. A few weeks ago (only just got internet working) I came back from my 6 month trip. Me my mum dad and little sister set out on our travelling adventure, we left britain on the 16th of october last year and arrived in moscow on the 20th after spending 4 days in...
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    Wild camping in scotland

    I am considering going wild camping along the scottish coastline, does anyone know a good area to start considering? My ideal is to camp on beaches, moving un-hurriedly up the coast, possibley stopping for a day or two inbetween to sea-fish and such. We not planning to forage all our food as we...
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    Woodland

    Hello from china :) I was wondering how much woodland it would take to live self sufficiently, i.e., maximum amount of food hunted and gathered, the rest from allotments, I keep looking at woods on woods4sale and wondering if however many acres would be enough :) Just want to hear peoples...
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    Going soon!

    On the 13th of october Im going on a 6 month trip over east asia, stoping at berlin then to moscow, transibearean express to the big lake (forget the name, largest freshwater body In world I think) mongolia, china, indo-china (veitnam, cambodia) nepal and maybe india! 6 months, oct 13th-...
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    Vitamins and such

    In the west we are constantly being told what we need, 5 fruit or veg, 3 serving of whole grain blablabla, but where would are ancestors have got the good stuff from? protein, vitamins, carbohydrates (complex and simple) and all the other things are body needs, because some of them dont seem...
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    wild food database

    a saught of wiki maybe, is there one?/ worth making one or something simular?
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    Crayfish trapping licence

    I have searched high and low over the websites of DEFRA and the EA and I cant find anything that tells you how to get a licene to trap crayfish... alot f things that say you need a licence, but nothing that says how to get one...anyone had more success? `n` i so... please tell...
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    Crayfish

    Got 8 crays caught with a standard childrens fishing-net-on-a-stick and some luncheon meat, sitting in the freezer, just wandering exactly what part you eat and how everyone prefefers cooking them...
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    Oh Dear!

    Look: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080917/tuk-mushrooms-examined-in-death-probe-6323e80.html...Ate deathcaps! Pity the report doesnt say more about what they were doing picking mushrooms...
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    Good mushroom books/courses

    What are the best (bigginer) mushrom books around, where to buy are and how much to buy, also, any good courses or walks in south east england? Seeing as theres been a bumper crop of mushrooms this year, I dont want to miss out next year...
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    Firesteel tinder

    What will catch well when using a firesteel? Charcloth and birch bark, anythng else?
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    Hmm...would this be mad?

    I basicly really really really want to get outdoors, ive only five weekends to do it in... many of which Im spending away so I thought, could I do it on a school night? to walk home and get ready for school I would have to be up by six, I reckon I could do it if I was awake by 6, any tips on...
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    Tipin Carrier

    Never heard of anyone use them before but there very helpful, its a saught of indian lunchbox but its basicly aload of small pans fastened together, its pretty helpful when forgaging along a hedgrow for berries or other edibles, there pretty bulky but the bigger they are the more they can carry ;)
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    Hello all and every

    Hi, I signed up to bushcraft living forums thinking they where the biggest bushcraft forums on the web X WRONG My relations own a farm, on which is several woods so Im set up for some great bushcraft opertunities, Im only 13 so I dont own any large blades but can borrow `em I hope this...