Each of my articles are ideas and practical projects that that will help make you more confident in the outdoors and in your own life. For a long time I have travelled around the world looking for what works, for the actual solutions to problems I have had in my own health and my life, and for everyone. The real fruit...
An Introduction to Shelter
Let's begin in the wild. I'm wandering on a trail, the sun's out its hot, I find a patch of shade and sit down.The first thing I've done is look for shelter and that's the first thing we'll cover in our course in solutions to living with a positive impact...
Habitat-Shelter from the Skin Up
Habitat, shelter. The first shelter is our skin. People who spend there lives outdoors are more conditioned to deal with the elements. They're thicker skinned. If you're used to staying indoors with central heating etc, camping may be an uncomfortable experience and so might going out for the night forgetting your coat because you didn't know it was a bit colder than it had been and freezing!So here's a picture of one...
The Backyard Bushcraft Experience
To boldly go where you may not have gone before. For this project we are going to recreate a wilderness survival experience in the safe confines of your back yard. If you haven't already got one, borrow one, or turn your front yard into one, or actually go some other place; or as a last resort use your...
Fire Making
When you're out in the natural environment and you need to make a fire. You're often faced with the wall of green - the raw material. You need to have an understanding of the nature of fire; what it eats, how it breathes, what it doesn't like. It usually doesn't take long...
The Shaolin Workout and building a temporary shelter"
Building a temporary shelter in the yard.
how to remove a tick
Well, it wasn't yet nine o clock on this sunday morning and already the little creatures have invaded. First it was the ants who seem to be using our bathroom as a freeway, we think their nest might have been disrupted when the outside wall was resurfaced. Then I found a cricket on its back, waving its legs around, so he got relocated. Then my mother said, "Lou can you have a look at this bite", which unfortunately was on her backside "Is it a tick?" she asks a bit worried...
How to put up a Tarp and How to put up a Hammock
Personal Project - How to put up a Tarp and Hammock
Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to put up a tarp and a hammock. Find a Tarp that's got many points for attaching rope around the edges and corners - or put your own in. You want one that's light enough to carry easily with all your other...
Learning to Identify PlantsIdentifying plants gets easier the more you do it. Honest - it's like we recognise our peas and carrots because we have eaten them (some of us ) a lot. Therefore we know what a pea or a carrot looks like, but do we know what a Pea plant or a Carrot plant looks like if we walked past them growing in a verge or...
Plant Medicine
It's easy to overlook the importance of physical conditioning, but it really is the foundation for everything else. If you're fit you have the capacity for more happiness - really, and don't forget the glowing complexion. 'We are what we repeatedly do' Aristotle said, and that's...
Orientating Yourself by Using the Sun, guest article by Mark Bradshaw
A basic introduction to a few methods of ROUGH direction finding using the position and movement of the sun in the sky.
Fundamentals - The sun rises in the east and it sets in the west. In the northern hemisphere at 1200 local time it is due south, at 0600 it is...
