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Jack Raven Bushcraft

@JackRavenInfo

High quality, affordable bushcraft training in the south east of England. Courses from 1 to 5 days covering essential bushcraft, wilderness and survival skills

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Identifying trees by leaf shape jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/ide…

Identifying trees by leaf shape - Jack Raven Bushcraft

Learning about trees is an important aspect of bushcraft. And identifying trees by leaf shape is a good starting point so take a look at this post to....

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Removing a hazel stem with a knife jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/rem…

Removing a hazel stem with a knife - Jack Raven Bushcraft

But there might be times, and I'm really thinking about last resort scenarios, where you might have to look at removing a hazel stem with a knife.  So in this

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How to make wild garlic sauce jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/how…
How to make wild garlic sauce - Jack Raven Bushcraft

How to make wild garlic sauce - Jack Raven Bushcraft

In this video I make some wild garlic sauce.  We tend to make 5 or 6 jars of it during the spring and pop them in the fridge.  This means that we have plenty

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Foraging for dandelions jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/for…

Foraging for dandelions - Jack Raven Bushcraft

We're regularly out foraging for dandelions in the spring on our 1 Day Foraging courses or our Herbal Remedies day.

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A lashing for a tripod jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/a-l…

A lashing for a tripod - Jack Raven Bushcraft

We look at how to tie a lashing for a tripod on our Institute for Outdoor Learning Bushcraft Competency Award course.

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Making a saw horse jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/mak…
Making a saw horse - Jack Raven Bushcraft

Making a saw horse - Jack Raven Bushcraft

Yesterday saw me in the woods making a saw horse.  Whilst not a particularly portable piece of equipment, in a semi-permanent or permanent camp setting

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How to tie a diagonal lashing jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/how…
How to tie a diagonal lashing - Jack Raven Bushcraft

How to tie a diagonal lashing - Jack Raven Bushcraft

A little while back I wrote a post on sqaure lashings, this time around it's about tying a diagonal lashing.   Examples of where we might use diagonal

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Igniting char cloth jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/ign…
Igniting char cloth - Jack Raven Bushcraft

Igniting char cloth - Jack Raven Bushcraft

A quick video on igniting char cloth, including with traditional flint & steel, fire steel, parabolic mirror, fire piston and a lens.  Of course, it

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Measuring tracks jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/mea…

Measuring tracks - Jack Raven Bushcraft

Measuring tracks will not only help with identifying the animal that made it, but it might also give an indication to the sex of the animal or the age of the

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Using leaves as tinder jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/usi…
Using leaves as tinder - Jack Raven Bushcraft

Using leaves as tinder - Jack Raven Bushcraft

I'm not a big fan of using leaves as tinder, they're often damp, take a bit of work to ignite and often don't produce much heat.  But as we're based in an

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Foraging for Alexanders jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/for…
Foraging for Alexanders - Jack Raven Bushcraft

Foraging for Alexanders - Jack Raven Bushcraft

As Nicola and I were walking Willow along the Downs today, I shot this short video on foraging for Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum).  Alexanders are a

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