Foraging in UK

UK BASED BUSHCRAFT ENTHUSIAST.

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Check out this Interactive foraging guide for the UK that i’ve put together. Costs as little as 99p and is packed with features.

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Foraging Guide

Learn how to forage delicious wild edible food in the UK. Interactive and comprehensive online library with new plants and videos featured each month. Not only that, we ill be have open challenges every month for subscribers to win prizes as they become more confident with their foraging skills.

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Autumn and cooler, wetter weather brings some tasty snacks. This is an easy one to identify. Can you name this fungi from my shaky video? https://www.instagram.com/p/B21w4K9F7fC/?igshid=pi0jw1awh1vx

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What a fantastic day guiding a student through an advanced fire lighting course. 5hrs of 1-1 bushcraft training with me on a sunny sunday. Perfect birthday gift I think 😉. Happy birthday Stefan. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2cfjoYnUTf/?igshid=153iy2twz4jsn

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Welcome to Pure Bushcraft. Watch this space for all things foraging. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2UCe6Nn-yC/?igshid=t54gllbg34pf

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A few more stunners 😊

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Just some travelling pictures. Havn't posted for a while so I thought I should throw something up.

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What a prize to find in the woodlands. Going to bleach it and make it into something useful.

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Camp fire cooking.

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5 days out turned into 3 days out. I got everything I wanted out of the experience and managed to learn a few new things. Filmed as much as I could for what I hope is a relaxing and informative watch.

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5 days. 10 items. No Water. No Food

As of 11am today I will be testing some gear, as well as my own skills. Spending 5 days in the forest with only 10 items to use.

Here are my 10 items: 3x3 tarp / knife / fishing set / sleeping bag / ground mat / 50lb bow / assorted cordage / pruning saw / steel cook pot / fire steel.

Its always good to check in with mother nature. Keeps you humble. I would have liked to do longer than 5 days but that's all my schedule allows at the moment. I will film as much as possible and post in the next week or so.

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A very successful mushroom season so far. These are but half of the different species I've come across. Tumblr only let's me upload 10 at a time.

I love the fantastic names that some of these have been given. Like Shaggy Scalycap, Dryads Saddle, Tawny Grisset, Glistening Inkcap, Panther Cap and the always respected Destroying Angel.

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Do you have any tips for people who wanna live a more primitive lifestyle, regarding basically everything, from clothes, to the house, etc. I love the idea of using candles instead of lights! Would a salt lamp count? I really have a hard time falling asleepy so hopefully that's help.

That’s a difficult question to answer as everyone’s life style and requirements are so different. But for the average modern household I guess these are worth thinking about…..

1. Shop at farmers markets and learn some basic foraging skills.2. Wood burning stove. Install one of these in your home and you can heat your house, cook your food and with the right set up you can heat your water too. They don’t cost a huge amount and you can make frequent trips to the woods to collect your own wood.3. Cut out processed foods. Huge health benefits and with more nutrient dense food people tend to eat less.4. Chickens. Build your own chicken run and feed them food waste from the house. They eat eveeythinggg (including meat), they give you a steady supply of natural organic eggs and you can process and eat the chickens.5. Buy a big freezer. If you have a big freezer you can buy huge cuts of meat from the butcher or direct from farmers. This saves loads of money in the long run. Mine is currently full of mushrooms, game meat and coconut/almond based protein bars that I make.6. Recycle/upcycle/be creative. Instead of always being a consumer of products, try to build things yourself. Reuse things around the house and repurpose them. I had an old broken table that was going to be thrown away. With a saw and a few screws I turned it into shelving and a new dog house (find this on my blog)7. Visit more charity shops. You can find incredible things in there, from clothes to furniture. I can’t remember the last time I bought clothes direct from a highstreet retailer.

There are hundreds of little things you can do to live better/more natural and primitive. I hope some of these points spark some of your own ideas. It’s all just about being conscious and present in everything you're doing. As my mum used to say…

“Don’t be a human doing, be a human being”

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Canyon Monastery, Blue Mountains, Australia

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Practicing a paiute deadfall. One of the first traps I learned when I was a kid. One of the simplest and most effective for small game and rodent trapping. Equally this can be done with a cage as a way to capture animals without harming them.

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As a bushcrafter, what do you eat? Anything from the store?

My eating habits are based around a paleo style diet, adopting how humans have eaten over millions of years of evolution. I eat 65% plant, 35% meat. I also fast intermittently and dip in and out of ketosis fortnightly. I try to procure as much food as I can naturally but as I have jobs and commitments within modern society I do have to regularly visit farmers markets and supermarkets to buy food. I am extremely picky with my store bought food. Most of the time it has to be organic, with no plastic packaging, outdoor raised, free range, gluten/sugar/dairy free and from a sustainable source.

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So how did you and your significant other (if you have one) get into Bushcraft?

Hello Anon, I was lucky enough to grow up surrounded by woodlands. I spent countless hours playing in nature, building dens and traps and seeing how long I could stay out for. When I was 10 my mum bought me my first book on survival. I realised that survival and bushcraft is something you can study in more of a serious and academic way. So I started buying my own books, watching videos and studying hard.