Last spaces available on the Wildwood Bushcraft experience - Book Now!
Wildwood Bushcraft Experience - Saturday 15th October - 10-4pm - £35 per person (min age 12yrs)
Join our natural heritage officer, Steve Kirk for a day of bushcraft and survival techniques at Wildwood. The day is your chance to get back to nature and learn basic bushcraft techniques with tutition and practical activities. To book call the office on 01227 712 111
Practical activities will include:
- Building a debris shelter
- Foraging for wild plants and/or fungi
- Animal tracking using Wildwood's animals, wild animals and casts of tracks
- Water collection and filtering
- Fire lighting including fire by friction
- Preparing and cooking a rabbit *
- Atlatl (spear thrower) demonstration and practice (space permitting)
- Making cordage from natural materials
Learn:
- How to tune in to your environment using all your senses
- How to recognise some edible and useful wild plants and fungi
- Which animals we would have traditionally eaten, and how you would find enough food to survive
- Tracking skills
- How to prepare a rabbit for the pot*
- How to find and prepare water safely for drinking
- How to build a safe fire and some of the methods for lighting fires
- What plants make good tinder and their other uses beyond food
- Basic shelter building techniques
No comments:
Post a Comment