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We provide courses for bushcraft, wilderness survival, primitive skills, and self reliance.
12/07/2024
🔥 Testing out a new cooking pot over the fire 🔥 using 2 "V" hook branches, fitted together with stake notches and then lashed. Dangling right over the hot coals 🔪 🔥 🌳 ⛺ This was part of day 3 with a group of homeschooling families. Today's main focus was cooking set ups, wet weather fires, ways of finding and purifying water, and twisting up some plant fibre cordage.
07/05/2024
The ''pocket dump''. 🔥 Flame thrower fire starter sunscreen 🌞 is one of the uses we discovered during a survival challenge where I get the participants to dump everything out of their pockets and bags 🎒 and we see what we have to work with and how it can be applied to a survival situation. 🆒️ These sessions are always fun and creative. From burning their vegetable oil soaked corn chips 🍟 from there lunch as fire starters 🔥 to talking about cutting open there stuff animals 🧸 to make warm slippers or gloves, we find what we need to take care of our basic survival needs. 💧 🔥 ⛺
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06/05/2024
🔥 The tug of war team friction fire! This is a good intro for a group of kids to friction fire. I like a spindle length just under the knees so you can brace against your shins while standing and a big block of fat wood for a two handed grip on the hand hold.
Water purification. 🔥💧 We dug a hole in the dirt, lined it with a plastic bag, added the water to be purified, used split stick tongs to drop red hot rocks in from our fire till we brought the water to a boil for a few minutes. We used dandelion stems as straws to drink from the hole!
Water proof jackets or hats can be used too. Water can be transported with another bag or container or soaked up in bandana and wrung out. Lots of options to apply this technique.
11/15/2023
🔥 Successful Bowdrill friction fire class for the metchosin preschool fundraiser 🔥 🪓 The skills continue to spread, never be an end user of the skills you aquire, keep passing them on to anyone willing to learn!
Thanks to all who came and donated to the cause.
11/11/2023
We have a few spots left for our class on BOW DRILL FRICTION FIRE. 🔥🔥🔥Learn to carve and use the kit to create an ember and blow into flame. This was for the Metchosin Preschool Silent Auction Fundraiser. We are meeting here in Metchosin this Sunday November 12th at 10am till 2pm. The minimum donation is $40.
Message me for more details.🔥🔥🔥
08/18/2023
🔥 🍖 I was to asked to supply the fresh protein for a wild food show the was being filmed here in metchosin. They wanted an ''invasive'' species and they had already done an episode with Rabbits. So Grey Squirrel was the target. Set up a couple Squirrel poles but ended up getting this one with a pellet gun in a stand of hazel trees.
06/05/2023
🐻 🔪 🔥 Finally got some work in on the bear hide this weekend. Hopefully the hair won't end up slipping because of going in and out of the freezer a bunch of times. So some final fleshing and a couping saltings, a salt bath, more scraping if needed, and dawn bath, braining and smoking is the plan at the moment.
05/29/2023
🔥 🔪 Fire lighting craft. Ferro rods, tinder bundles and fatwood with students for bushcraft and wilderness survival week
05/29/2023
Bushcraft week with students from . Using a sheep bone chisel to make a wooden burned out bowl 🐑 🔥 🥣
08/28/2022
Hide tanning class 🦌🔪 , scraping the meat and fat off a racked sheep hide with knapped obsidian and wet scraping the grain and hair off a deer with the blunt side of a draw knife over a pvc beam. Final products will be sheep skin rug and buckskin for clothing.