Last weekend saw a small group of Woodcrafters heading out into the woods for the spring session of the Bushcraft Training sessions.
There are 2 groups following the same programme, the first group had a brilliantly sunny weekend at the start of the Easter holidays, those of us heading out on Friday had made sure our waterproofs we handy as rain was forecast for most of the time. The weather held out while we got our shelters built and fire lit but there was heavy rain overnight.
Saturday morning was spent in the woods identifying trees, and there various uses and collecting some of the abundant wild garlic growing in the area. This was added to several of the dishes cooked over the weekend including wild garlic bread and a wild garlic soup.
We covered plenty of activities which could be run on group nights, such as thinking about what you would need in a survival tin and learning useful knots as well as practical skills like sharpening our tools.
On Sunday we tested out out new knots and rigged a group hammock from some scrap store webbing. While I'm not sure I would want to sleep in a hammock build for 10 it was quite comfortable, until you wanted to get out!
We all looking forward to the summer session in a few weeks time.
