This course is designed for professional bushcraft practitioners like you, to enhance your personal skills beyond the levels you currently deliver to your own audience, making you more proficient in your own skills and to become a better and safer instructor, enriching the way you currently deliver now at your own venue.
You will be inspired and empowered within the company of other bushcraft professionals, within a rich peer-to peer learning environment.
We will be developing your skills to a higher level, supplementing and improving on skills already attained, and teaching you new ones for you to take back into your own practice. This is a good complimentary course to the IOL Bushcraft Competency Training and takes your skills to the next level.
Course Registration
When you book a place on this course you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to our registration form so you can complete your details. We must be in receipt of these details as soon as possible after you have booked your place. You will need an order no. to complete the form.
This course is designed for professional bushcraft practitioners like you, to enhance your personal skills beyond the levels you currently deliver to your own audience, making you more proficient in your own skills and to become a better and safer instructor, enriching the way you currently deliver now at your own venue.
You will be inspired and empowered within the company of other bushcraft professionals, within a rich peer-to peer learning environment.
We will be developing your skills to a higher level, supplementing and improving on skills already attained, and teaching you new ones for you to take back into your own practice. This is a good complimentary course to the IOL Bushcraft Competency Training and takes your skills to the next level.
Bushcraft Practitioner Development Training 5 Day Course
Bushcraft Practitioner Development Training 5 Day Course
Bushcraft Practitioner Development Training 5 Day Course
Bushcraft Practitioner Development Training 5 Day Course
Bushcraft Practitioner Development Training 5 Day Course
Bushcraft Practitioner Development Training 5 Day Course
Fire lighting methods and materials
Producing numerous embers using various methods from the hand drill, to sourcing the materials direct from the woodland to producing a group fire bow set, and how to apply it in various teaching arenas. You will also be joining the Otzi club in producing an ember using iron pyrites and flint, make your own char elements, both man-made and foraged materials you have collected from our beautiful woodlands. Utilise these skills further to blow that ember into flame, to form an established fire at your own camp to cook an evening game meal, supplemented with wild edibles. we will also cover:
Hand drill embers - using various materials and techniques.
Bow Drill - Learn varying applications and collect materials from the woodland.
Firewood - analysis and species characteristics.
Fire lays and fire management- their suitability for the vast array of cooking methods and other uses.
Sustainable harvesting and using natural resources
You will learn to utilise and process an array of wild plants for various dishes, medicines and camp craft uses, through detailed identification conducted on a forage. Converting this knowledge into practical skills by collecting them to produce useful medicinal remedies for the great outdoors, prepare and cook delicious wild food without the need for cookware, and other tasks throughout the week such as producing birch oil and rendering it to tar and producing a coil baskets. Included in this, we will cover:
Sustainable harvesting - techniques ensuring flora remains productive through the changing season and subsequent years.
Detailed plant identification - forage walk, legality, and reference recommendations.
The end of the course
By the end of the course you will know how to follow the guidebooks to get you to the genus of a number of species of Fungi, developing further than this to then be able to identify species yourself with guide books and keys.We will also familiarise yourself with a number of different habitats and the species that are likely to be linked to those.You should also be able to understand the historical basis of the latin names.
You do not need to have any experience at all of fungi in order to attend this 2 day course, just bring bags of enthusiasm and a packed lunch and we will do the rest.
2024- please note we have pencilled the date of 26th October, however this is very seasonally dependent. If the season becomes dry we will move the date to the 23rd November, we will know closer to the time. This is a self catered course, and you are more than welcome to camp overnight with us in the woods with prior arrangement or find your own accomodation locally.
