Bushcraft for Families
A fULL DAY Of BUSHCRAFT FOR ADULTS AND THEIR TEENS ( 8-17 )
Learn the skills and knowledge needed to live in the wild places together.
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OVERVIEW
Join Gazza to learn how to hack it, with confidence, in the wild places.
A chance first to learn and then to test your survival skills.
Expect a practical day, full of hand-picked techniques, tailored to your needs and abilities but pushing your edge in just the right way for maximum enjoyment.
Come and learn the real deal.
LEARN
Become even more awesome, dependable, and resilient than you already are!!
There will be group and solo activities, a fun, family opportunity to show yourselves, and each other, just exactly what you are capable of.
Add to that a fire lighting challenge, and an archery competition,
this promises to be a great day of exploration and fun.
DETAILS
Here’s just some examples of what your day could have in store:
- Learn to light fires in the rain
- How to use a knife and saw safely
- How to track animals and humans
- How to tie reliable knots
- Put up a tarp shelter and stay warm and dry
- Wild Field Archery
- How to carry an injured friend out of the woods
- How to disinfect water and know it is safe to drink.
CONDITIONS
Young people (8 to 17) must be accompanied by a participating adult parent or guardian.
Cost for the day is £60 for adults and £50 per teen (8 to 17).
The day will run from 1000 to 1500 to give us plenty of time.
We will be in the woods all day regardless of the weather so bring your favourite packed lunch (full details of what to bring are provided at booking).
Bushcraft for Families Course
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Back to the Source: Deer Butchery and the Path of the Primal Trail
By Gazza Butcher | Primal Trail Bushcraft There is a specific kind of silence that only exists in the woods of East Sussex in the winter. It’s a damp, heavy quiet, broken only by the crackle of a fire or the sharp snap of a dry twig underfoot. Whilst taking a much-needed break from the…
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Rendering Deer Fat into Tallow
A Deeper Connection to my food through Ancestral Practice. Skin, bone, antler, hock, hoof, sinew, internal organs, fat the list is long. When a deer is taken as part of a healthy approach to active ecological managment, the responsibility that follows does not end with meat in the freezer. Through embracing the old ways and…
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Chewing the Fat: A Detailed Look At Rendered Deer Tallow
(For a look at rendered deer fat or tallow in general, and an overview of how to make it, see our related Blog post: ‘Rendering Deer Fat into Tallow’). Rendered deer fat is more than a cooking ingredient. It is concentrated information. Fat records things meat often hides: the animal’s age, sex, season, diet, stress…
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