CONTENTS... FEATURES 8 12 16 22 26 30 34 36 46 50 54 58 62 65 80 REGULARS 3 7 20 66 67 68 82 Wild Food recipes - The Irrepressible Dandelion How To - Weaving Knives & Axes - Make a Bowl Wildlife - Nests Haunts & Habits of Fish First Aid Essentials for the Wilds Drying a Friction Kit Without Fire Cast Iron Cooking Tracking Snakes Bushcraft On A Budget - Tarp Repair The Country Bumpkin Women in the Wild - Life on the Open Road Archie Grey Owl Natural Navigation - Shape of the Land Coastal Survival - Beach Oven COMPETITIONS 40 48 48 48 48 68 74 Editorial Readers’ Letters In the news Subscription Offer Next Issue Store Directory Bushcraft Bairns subscr iB TODAY! E FOR DE T SEE pag AILS e 66 REVIEWS 40 48 74 Win a Bush Shirt Win Hawke’s Green Beret Survival Manual Win Hawke’s Special Forces Survival Handbook: Win The Trapper’s Bible Win Inside SWC Handmade Knives DVD Win Tracking Handbook by Eddie and Perry McGee Gerber Bear Ultimate Knife Bush Shirts Book & DVD Reviews Gerber Bear Gear MEET THE CONTRIBUTORS... Here are just SOME of those who make this possible... Emma Hampton, Emma is at her happiest in wild and rugged places. She is a seasonal outdoors education instructor and has spent seven months a year, for the past three years, living and working in the outdoors. Her areas of interest are crafts, navigation, wilderness medicine and wild cooking. Pablo, Wood Life - Pablo is a life-long wildlife enthusiast. He has a military and law-enforcement background and has a wide range of teaching and training qualifications. He uses a combination of bushcraft, tracking and field craft skills to get close to wildlife. He is an advanced tracker and an instructor for Shadowhawk Tracking School and has tracked wildlife in various locations around the world including Southern Africa. Pablo runs Woodlife, which includes Woodlife Trails and Woodlife Social Network, a site dedicated to wildlife, tracking and bushcraft. Fergus Drennan, Wild Foods — Fergus is perhaps better known as the 'Road Kill Chef', or for his current focus, which is to live for a whole year on 100% wild and foraged foods... His interest in the natural world began early. As a boy he roamed the countryside armed with his favourite I Spy editions to identify butterflies, moths and plants. However, while most youngsters would very likely have stopped there, Fergus began studying natural history books to discover the culinary and medicinal uses of the plants he found growing in the flavours on his way. Today their sampled often he and wild, wild food is his life! Ben & Lois Orford, Knives & Axes Ian Nairn, Bushcraft on a budget — 'Make do and Mend' is Ian's Philosophy. He is a dab hand at all things creative, and would be a match for any skilled seamstress! His innovative ideas can save you pounds, showing you how to make kit from things that you might find lying around. Ian is constantly on the lookout for items to re-use or turn into something for bushcraft use. He also has a long-standing interest in and extensive knowledge of woodcraft and green woodworking, which, combined with his other skills, makes for some great money-saving tips! Annette Ben and Lois Orford live amongst the rolling hills of Herefordshire on a small farm with their dog, 6 chickens and 300 newly planted trees to look after. Their work lives are spent, making tools and leatherwork for bushcraft, woodcraft and green woodwork enthusiasts. Ben makes the tools and Lois make the leather sheaths to house them. On the farm they have a modern indoor workshop on two levels and an outdoor green woodwork workshop where we make chairs, benches and bowls and run courses during the summer time. Stickler, Women in the WIld — Founder of ‘Campfire Skills’, establishe d in 1999, Annette has a wealth of knowledge, ranging from first-hand experience with indigenous tribes to lead ing bushcraft courses for Ray Mears. Nature first inspired Annette at a young age, while she was studying Wildlife Management and later while she was working as a Zoo Keeper for 10 years. Annette is also a photographer, havi ng photos published in Ray Mears and Professor Gordon Hillman`s book, ‘Wild Food’. Linking cons ervation, education and research, she gets a huge amount of satisfacti on from sharing her passion with others. © Copyright Bushcraft & Survival Skills Magazine 2011 To view all the contributors visit www.bushcraftmagazine.com BUSHCRAFT & survival skills magazine • 5