Posted in Fire craft, Food and Drink, Meetups and gatherings, Natural Materials, Plants, Primitive skills, tagged deer, fire, food, stinging nettle on 20/08/2009 | 1 Comment »
Nettles were added until a thick layer covered the embers
Then the meat was placed on to the nettles
Another thick layer of nettles was placed on the meat and then a fire built on top
After four and a half hours the fire had burnt down to embers and ash
and so I decided to scrape away the [...]
Posted in Fire craft, Food and Drink, Meetups and gatherings, Natural Materials, Plants, Primitive skills, tagged stinging nettle, food, deer on 17/08/2009 | 1 Comment »
Following the success of the pit cooking of Roe Deer and Wild Boar during the primitive skills course at the beginning of May, a friend asked me to cook a Roe deer in a pit for his party.
I jointed the meat
while friends gathered stinging nettles to protect the meat
Chris had dug a hole in his [...]
Posted in Crafts, Fire craft, Food and Drink, Meetups and gatherings, Natural Materials, Plants, Primitive skills, Stone, Tools, tagged Bow-drill, cordage, deer, flint, food, jerky, stinging nettle on 16/05/2009 | 2 Comments »
After lunch there were more workshops including cordage making
and by mid afternoon we were preparing food for our evening meal. On both days the main meal was cooked in a pit. A pit had already been dug and into this we made a fire.
Once there was a good bed of embers a layer of wet [...]
Posted in Clothing, Crafts, Food and Drink, Meetups and gatherings, Natural Materials, Primitive skills, Tools, tagged bannock, butchery, deer, fire, fish, flint, food, hand-drill, Parachute, Razor clams, tipi on 13/05/2009 | 9 Comments »
Last weekend I attended a primitive skills weekend run by Will Lord and John Lord + some of their friends. Here are John and Will exchanging tips on the hand-drill
I arrived early on Friday afternoon as food was being prepared for an evening meal
Once this rabbit had been gutted and skinned we made up a [...]
Posted in Crafts, Equipment, Natural Materials, Tools, tagged deer, knife, leather on 02/05/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having made my Crusader mug possibles pouch I have now made a set of smaller belt pouches for a variety of items. The pouches are very basic. Nothing fancy, just plain soft leather with a leather loop to attach them to my belt and I have cut disks of Roe Deer antler to use a [...]
