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Iv noticed this plant has extensive orange rhizomes and there edible according to my online research has anybody eaten these? Iv eaten the spring shoots as a rhubarb substitute but never the rhizomes ,id assume you wouldnt need landowners permission to uproot them either as there generally a...

My favourite bird is a male sparrohawk the colours are amazing

Granted there's a lot of clever editing on ed staffords shows but, he definitely has excellent bushcraft skills, then there's ray who's like a walking wilderness book collection ,who also has great bushcraft skills to boot , who do u rate the highest?

This is something id like to do personally, I wouldn't charge to teach these skills because it doesn't sit well with me making money from nature .Anyway with that being said it can take All day to find suitable materials, and in the number thats required for a scout troop this isnt practical...

I'm not a fan of proffesional foragers who go out and forage mushrooms to inhuman numbers often charging a fortune often in big groups ,not only mushrooms iv seen mussell beds stripped bare ,snails almost wiped out locally, all manner of flora and fauna it should be illegal there shud be limits...

Just made a jam from sloes I froze it's not bad but not as good as jam made from cherry plums

Iv been rewatching some day mears programmes on the summer harvest episode he and the ethnobotanist gordon get bird cherries"prunus padus" and pound them seeds an all and cook the resulting sculpted mush into biscuits on the embers it looks a very substantial food ray explains this renders the...

This is a extract from "survival skills of native california" a book I highly recommend iv often wondered if plum kernels were edible and what a good resource they could be if I knew lost knowledge anyway here goes..... Large quantities of wild plum(prunus ilicifolia) known as hollyleaf cherry...

This one is controversial anyway read on...I have consumed bracket rhizome starch in the past with no I'll effects but it's controversial ,the Pacific northwest People's of America the tlingit Indians ect cooked bracken rhizomes in big pits for hours then they p ounded the rhizomes with...

Paracord is overrated and overpriced lawnmower starter cord is cheaper and indestructible when learning bowdrill I could practise for days hour's on end without it breaking

I like bushcraft but I lean more towards primitive skills id define bushcraft as 50% primitive skills50% camping are they any UK based 100% primitive skill forums I carn t find any

Anybody eaten sea slaters?

Anyone noticed birch bolettes popping up yet they've not popped up yet here prop need more rain

I carn t post pics as I'm not a full member yet, but survival skills of native California by Paul Campbell is a comprehensive a4 sized 400 huge paged book, iv learned tonnes of it even though I'm from the UK ,it's 1 if had in my book collection for years bushcraft really is a universal language...

Anybody thought of buying a patch of woodland on a syndicate basis ie chipping in with friends and dividing the land accordingly? Seems like this makes buying land easier for people who work average jobs , it's something I'm thinking of looking into in the future

What's your favourite edible insects i v not explored this fully but iv eaten w oodlice ,tastes like shrimp, and smoked earthworms ,tastes like bacon ,before anyone laughs I'm a savage il eat anything everything is fair game to satisfy my curiosity

Just made some jam from cherry plums bloody good one of the best jams iv had its certainly up there with the best

We all know open fires arnt tolerated as they once we're I'm thinking of getting a wood gasifier stove are they as good as they look ?

I can do bowdrill pretty well consistently but the handrill is my nemesis iv heard dead blackberry stems are good? Iv tried but they break most of the time inever get heat doing it,but I did get the end of a wooden spindle hot attempting the floating hands method any insightfull tips?

What is the most unusual wild edible youv had? mine is yew berries, medlars,checquer tree fruit, and eels as a young lad