Bushcraft and survival skills blog

Welcome to our blog. Here we thought that it would be helpful to share with you information on bushcraft, survival and wilderness living. We hope that you find it useful but remember, nothing replaces practical, hands-on experience. If you’d like to learn more or to improve your bushcraft abilities why not visit our courses page and see what we offer.

Sweet Chestnut (Castanae sativa)

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Yew Tree  (Taxus baccata)

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Hypothermia

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Dehydration In Winter

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Making a Bow Drill Set

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Introducing Your Family To Bushcraft

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Coastal Foraging 

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Basic Axe Care

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Canoeing and Bushcraft

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Family Bushcraft

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Signs of Spring

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Bushcraft Coffee

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Wild Summer Edibles

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Indoor Bushcraft

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Spring Edibles To Forage

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Comfort Zone

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Norway Spruce

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Poo, Prints & Pawmarks

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The Oak

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Kids Outdoors In Winter

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Identifying Trees In Winter

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Expedition Snacks

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Foraging Nuts – Top 5

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Fruit to Forage Top 10

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Treat someone to a bushcraft voucher

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Choosing your first bushcraft knife

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Making your first bow drill

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Introduction to Friction Fire Lighting

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Wider Bushcraft Learning

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What The Woods Meant to Our Ancestors

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Cook Over an Open Fire with Your Family

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Tarps – 5 Top Tips For A Good Tarp Set Up

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The Benefits of Being Outside

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The Indoorsy Mum

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More Than Just Survival

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Choosing wood for a bow drill

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5 Essential Knife Skills

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Edible Plants in the UK Spring

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Knife Skills for Bushcraft – Feather sticks

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Friction Fire Lighting on Our Weekend Bushcraft Course

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Shelter Building Basics

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The leave no trace misnomer

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Snow Shelters to Try

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Why Spending Time in Nature Is Good for Your Health

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Making the Most of Your Stove in Winter

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Choosing Clothing for Winter Camping In The UK

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Considerations When Camping In Winter

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Finding Wood For Fire Lighting This Autumn

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Plants to Look Out For This Autumn and Winter

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Shelter Building In Autumn

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Five Trees To Identify This Winter

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What Changes in The UK Woods in Autumn and Winter

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Lighting a Fire On Snow

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Lighting a Fire In Damp Conditions

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Desalination – Turning Seawater into Drinking Water

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What to Expect On Our Weekend Bushcraft Course

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How to Prevent and Treat Dehydration

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Make Your Sleeping Kit Work for You

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Bushcraft and Bivvying

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Making Primitive Glues

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Long-Term Shelter Building and Bushcraft

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Intermediate Bushcraft Course

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What the Woods Mean to Wildway Bushcraft

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How to Sharpen Your Bushcraft Axe

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How to Choose a Bushcraft Axe

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How to Sharpen Your Bushcraft Knife

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Light a Fire, Leave No Trace

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Five Trees for UK Bushcraft

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Making Stinging Nettle Tea

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How to Tap a Silver Birch

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How to Prepare and Cook a Fish in the Wild

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Seashore Foraging in The South West

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Start Your Spring Foraging

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Refresh Your Bushcraft Skills

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Foraging for All the Family

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How to Catch and Cook Fish in the Wild

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Trapping and Snaring

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Foraging in the UK

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Navigating at Night

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How to Navigate Accurately on a River in the UK

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Navigate Without a Map

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Natural Navigation in the UK

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Foraging Along Scotland’s Rivers

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Reading the River

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How to Source and Purify Water

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Packing for a Long Canoe Trip

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Hypothermia – Signs and Prevention

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Tree ID in Winter

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Lighting a Fire in the Winter

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Suntan Lotion or Raincoats

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Char Cloth, Vaseline and Other Alternative Fire lighting Means

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Bow Drills: A Beginners Guide to Making and Using One in the UK

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Friction Fire Lighting in the UK – an Introduction

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Lighting a Fire in Wind and Rain: Tips, Tricks and Cotton Wool

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How to Cook for the Camp: An Intro to Eating Well Outdoors

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Tarp Set Ups for Solo Campers and Couples: What You Need to Know

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Organisation in Bushcraft and Camping: Fire, Food and Hygiene

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Where to Camp? Tips for Tents and Shelters in the UK

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Making Charcoal

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River Spey Wildlife

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Highly skilled professional

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Inspired Teacher

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A Big Thank you

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Great Weekend

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Super Weekend Course

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Bushcraft Kit – 10 Items to always take with you.

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Looking after your axe

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Natural navigation

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Pooing in the woods

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Surviving without gadgets

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Animal tracking

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Bushcraft in spring

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Leave without a trace

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Tips for choosing a bushcraft and survival school

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Ten deciduous trees to look out for

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Guide to identifying deciduous trees

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Winter bushcraft

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Getting to grips with the longbow

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Bow drill troubleshooting

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What to look for in a bushcraft axe

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Plants to forage this Autumn

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Responsible Bushcraft

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Top 10 Bushcraft Items

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Autumn Foraging

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Seashore Foraging

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Bushcraft Canoe Expedition

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Bear Blades Forest 3 Review

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UK Knife Law

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Bushcraft weather skills

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Bushcraft Vs Survival

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Natural Cordage

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DD Tarp Review

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How to skin and butcher a rabbit

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Foraging

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Friction Fire Lighting

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Feather Sticks

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Bushcraft Bannock Bread

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Bushcraft Fire Skills

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