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Hi there, I haven't been on here for ages but I just came across this and thought people here mite be interested in it. http://info.anu.edu.au/ovc/media/Media_Releases/2005/January/190105filters

Ok this is not bushcrafty but I found a odd looking plant growing under one of our bird feeders a few months ago and thought it looked interesting. I thought I'd let it grow on a bit to see if it could be identified. Anyway now it started to flower, and we are none the wiser. The strange...

Plant Locations I posted a link to this in the "There's an app. for that" thread after just finding it today. Well i've been having a fiddle with it and I think that it deserves it's own thread. Its basically a database of plants and trees people have found, but with each one linked to a...

If you ever wondered how your ferrocerium rod works, have a look at this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frD3126ry8o&feature=sub

I went for a walk round the garden in the evening the other day after it had been quite wet. In a small pot pond at the bottom of the garden I saw a small newt. We quite often get Grate Crested Newts in the garden but this looked quite different. I've done a bit of googling but haven't seen...

The other day I noticed a strange plant coming up in the garden. I tried pulling some up and they had long, whitish, ground elder like roots. They were growing in a new bed of raspberrys and I wasn't going to let something with spreading roots get established, so I dug up all the ones I could...

I took the dog for a walk today and on the edge of the local playing field I came across some baffling pieces of equipment that had obviously just been installed. They seem to be some kind of outdoor exercise trail, which is a nice idea and I would have happily used it, but for the life of me I...

I just came across this while looking up some edible wild plants and thought I'd share it. It has recipes for lodes of traditional and wild foods. Looks like it mite be a good reference for forageing. http://www.celtnet.org.uk/recipes/ancient/guide-a.php I would prefer it if the recipes could...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hs8zp/Natural_World_20082009_A_Farm_for_the_Future/ We've just watched this and found it fascinating and somewhat worrying for the future. We only saw it because of a recommendation from another forum so thought I'd share it as well. Quite bushcrafty...

In our house we have half a dozen different sharp knives in the kitchen, all with blades between 7-10cm long. The trouble is that none of them can hold an edge for more than a few days. So I was wondering if anyone knows of a good brand or style of kitchen knife along the lines of the Frost...

I'm just writing to report that for the first time I have made fire by friction! I've been using a Ferro rod for years and have tried a couple of times to get a bowdrill working but could never quite get it. Anyway after coming across some really nice videos on youtube and doing some research...

Hi, Recently I've started looking for a little SAK or Multi-tool like thing that would be small enough to carry around in my pocket, maybe even on my keyring. I've seen a few but I'm not shore how usable they are. I'm lightly to only use it occasionally but I still wont it to have a decent...

Just before Christmas we got ourselves a new dog from a local rescue center called Dennis. He court our eye strait away because he looked so different and he's very cute. He was a stray so we don't know what breed he is, on the information we got with him hes down as a cairn cross and a couple...

I've just had a rather unpleasant experience involving a wasps nest. I was out on a little walk trying to catch the last of what little daylight we've had today when I came across a lode of rubbish. I thought it was a little odd since it was mostly made up of carrier-bags but I went round...

Nature on radio 4 I herd this program on radio 4 yesterday and I thought it was extremely powerful. Maybe because Its about somewhere local to me but it also had echos of Long Stride's recent thread (A bit Spiritual ). You can listen again here

At the beginning of this month I went on a longbow making course at the Greenwood Centre in Coalbrookdale, it was a cracking course and I came away with a gorgeous 49lb ash longbow. There’s only one problem, I don’t have any arrows. I did have the opportunity of putting together a...

I've been walking along the river around Shrewsbury as well as boating and kayaking on it for years but recently I've started noticing more and more sines of life in it. More water birds, more fish, more water plants, clearer water and freshwater mussel shells everywhere. Especially fish and...

I came back from a walk this evening with a leaf. I thought it looked familiar but I couldn't place it, my Mum was the same so we spent half an hour or so poring over books and searching the web and we finely came up with Elm as the only real possibility. The only problem is that the tree was...

A new fungal plague is spreading out of Africa, threatening the world with famine! A strain of wheat rust, a crop disease that hasn’t been a problem for 40 years has mutated, and it’s back with a vengeance. The new Rust strain has been destroying 10 percent of the wheat harvest in east...

Last weekend I suddenly decided to make a fire starting pouch for my new shoulder-bag and after 4 or 5 hours work I had myself a nice shiny pouch. Then I realized that I hadn't thought of how I was going to hold it closed :o . So now I have to come up with a way of holding it closed. I had been...