Weekend Bushcraft Course - Level 2 Training Course

The weekend course is more of a fun, safe learning experience than an endurance event. If you have a group, you can book your own weekend or 2 night course during the week.

This is a 'hands on' course. The instructors will explain and demonstrate but you will get the opportunity to have a go at everything!

This course teaches you the fundamental principles of survival and wilderness bushcraft including navigation, fire making, shelter building, and food and water preparation and collection. You will also cover the following subjects: traps and snares, natural navigation, knife sharpening, compass navigation, edible plants, fire lighting by friction, cooking techniques, tree identification and uses for different woods, camp craft, water sourcing, collection, filtration and purification, game preparation (usually fish, mammal and bird) and more.

This is also an NCFE Level 2 Course. Please phone fore more details.

It will also teach you how to live comfortably in the wilderness. You will be shown how to make natural cordage and you get a woodland sauna on the last morning. This is our most popular course and when you've completed it you will understand why.

Your food for the course usually consists of pigeon with fennel, parsley, basil and black pepper, fresh trout with thick tomato and spicey pepper pasta, and rabbit slowly cooked in a delicately spiced marinade with mixed seasonal vegatables. The meat for the course will be determined by what is available at that time of year.

The skills and techniques you need to live in the wilderness are expertly demonstrated and explained so that you can master them before leaving the course. You need have no knowledge of survival skills to attend this course. This is learning through experience at its best. Most people come on this course as individuals or pairs. If you have a large group, please contact us for your own weekend.

Please click here for the kit list.