Tangled Bank Foraging and Fibre Crafts
Learning about and trying to live lightly on this beautiful planet. The natural world, inclusive bushcraft, evidence-based environmentalism and sustainable living.
You poor take courage You rich take care This earth was made a common treasury For everyone to share Billy Bragg - The World Turned Upside Down Photograph by Rob on Flickr It may surprise you to learn this about me, but I frequently do something illegal and thoroughly enjoy doing it. I do it … Continue reading Camping in our common treasury
My bushcraft, hiking and other outdoor activities have always been motivated by a love of the natural world and a desire to spend more time learning to understand and appreciate it. To me the other side of this equation is a responsibility to try to minimise the damage I cause to the living world I … Continue reading Lightweight plant-based eating outdoors
I'm a huge fan of campfire jacket potatoes, but while the aluminium foil you wrap them in is recyclable if rolled into a large enough ball to be collected in recycling plants I've been keen to try the historical alternative of covering them in clay ever since I saw it done on the Historical Farm … Continue reading Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick em in…clay? Potatoes.
Dandelions growing along the edge of a shingle road at the base of some concrete steps. Stuart Rankin, CC0 licensed I love foraging for wild food, as a way of exploring new flavours, learning more about the natural world around me and deepening my connection to it. My walk to work across the university campus … Continue reading “Let them eat weeds”: Foraging is not a solution to food poverty
Jack Raven Bushcraft has republished an article I wrote a few years ago for The Bushcraft Journal, on the myriad fascinating ways that the organisms in a woodland, from trees to fungi, interact and even communicate with one another. The Whispering Wood The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow … Continue reading The Whispering Wood
The natural world is so busy and full of beautiful, remarkable things to pay attention to that it sometimes causes me problems when I help out at the bushcraft school where I was privileged enough to spend many of my weekends this summer. I frequently find myself going out to collect firewood and coming back, … Continue reading Out of sight, out of mind: the problem with balloons
Tangled Bank Foraging and Fibre Crafts 