Coastal Survival & Coastal Hunter Gatherer Aka Coast Master Award I have to admit that I have only been interested in outdoor living, bush craft and survival for a couple of years. In that time I have become an avid enthusiast and have tried quite a number of different ‘schools’…
Nearly 10 years ago I was tasked with the request to run a “post apocalyptic Coastal Survival course” as the group who had assisted in the post Tsunami aid operation in Thailand, were unable to find such a course anywhere in the Uk, it was a reunion get together and…
Shelter – Fire – Water – Food Why are Survival skills important? A fishing trip on a secluded beach or a coastal path walk could take an unexpected turn. A twisted ankle on a solo trip or a casualty in your group can change the day into a serious scenario.…
A write up from Becky, looking at the 1 day Game cookery course we run in Dorset. I have always wanted to get closer to my food, to know how to prepare it from fur and feather stage. Nothing could be more ‘free range’ than wild game, despatched quickly and…
Mushroom forage and cook with John Rensten and Coastal Survival. New Forest. October 2017. On the 14th of October I had the opportunity to continue my personal development training and attend a mushroom foraging and cooking, identification course in the idyllic woodland of The New Forest. The course was hosted…
Wild first aid plants for the survivalist. (A bit more raw and unedited text from the next handbook I’m writing) more can be found in the blog posts at www.coastalsurvival.com Yarrow. This plant of a thousand leaves, or as the Latin partly translates, also taking part of its Latin name…
Introduction from the next handbook I’m writing (raw and unedited) Wild first aid. Before you step out the door, so to speak, you really do want to have some basic knowledge of first aid, if your stepping out into the wilder parts, you really should have an advanced knowledge of…
Long Line Fishing Kit 
