Bushcraft is a term used to describe living at one with nature, and the skills and knowledge required to do so.

Bushcraft skills include; fire making, tracking, hunting, shelter building, using tools such as knives and axes, foraging, carving wood, making containers from natural materials, twine-making, and many other things. Pure bushcraft uses only the natural things around us, modern bushcraft utilises the minimum of modern equipment.

These outdoors skills would all have been a part of daily life for our ancestors, and are still practised by many tribes and remote people throughout the world.

An A-Z of bushcraft

• A is for Axe.
• B is for Bowdrill.
• E for eating wild coastal food.
• Edible wild plants.
• F is for fire by flint.
• F is for friction.
• G is for gathering.
• How to make a knife.
• I is for identify.
• K is for knife.
• M is for merchandise.
• O is for oil.
• P is for plants.
• P is for plants, 2.
• S is for shelter.
• T is for trap.
• U is for utensils.
• W is for water.
• W is for whistle.
• Z is for sleeping.
• Bloopers!!!
• How to sharpen a knife for bushcraft.

View the bushcraft photo gallery here