We headed off away from the bear den and after walking a while Teres spotted a beer bottle pushed under a fallen tree. Amazingly she could remember having sat there with her friend when she was 15, drinking the bottle of beer and after they had finished she pushes the bottle under the tree to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food’
Vegetable plot
Posted in Food and Drink, Plants, tagged food on 05/09/2009 | 4 Comments »
In March this year I decided to set aside a small area of my garden as a vegetable plot. I cleared an area 2.8m x 1.3m back to bear earth and created a raised border around it
I have a heavy clay soil in my garden so I dug the area over and mixed sand, leaf [...]
Birding and bushcraft
Posted in Fire craft, Food and Drink, Meetups and gatherings, Nature, Wildlife, tagged birds, crusader cup, fire, food, Hazel, tinder on 26/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last Friday I headed off to the British Birdwatching Fair which is a three day event held annually at Rutland Water Nature Reserve.
I was there to make contact with nature tourism companies who are, or who are considering running tours in Northern Sweden.
After a day at the bird fair I travelled down to Danemead Scout [...]
Fruit leather
Posted in Food and Drink, Natural Materials, Plants, Trees, tagged food, preserving, woodburner on 23/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I found a large number of Crab Apples on the ground and decided to try and make use of them.
I placed them in boiling water for five minutes and then pushed them through a fine sieve to remove the peel and pips. Then I did the same with some Blackberries but boiled them for a [...]
Cooking Roe Deer in the ground – Part 2
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 [...]