Self-Sufficiency Skills and Wild Food Foraging Blog

Using Lard on your skin

Using Lard on Your Skin

  Using Lard on Your Skin You may not have thought about lard (yup, pig fat) as an essential in your backpack but I can assure you this small blob...

Using Lard on Your Skin

  Using Lard on Your Skin You may not have thought about lard (yup, pig fat) as an essential in your backpack but I can assure you this small blob...

How to make natural toothpaste

How To Make Your Own Natural Toothpaste

  Here is a video I did for a facebook live, on making your own toothpaste from the natural resources around you. Hope you enjoy it,  Di x P.S Learn with...

How To Make Your Own Natural Toothpaste

  Here is a video I did for a facebook live, on making your own toothpaste from the natural resources around you. Hope you enjoy it,  Di x P.S Learn with...

making a basket base

Making A Basket Base

  If you ever wondered why most round baskets have a little square in the middle, now you will see why.  This close up video shows the very first stages...

Making A Basket Base

  If you ever wondered why most round baskets have a little square in the middle, now you will see why.  This close up video shows the very first stages...

Making a willow basket

Making a Willow Basket

Making a willow basket takes about five hours for a Newby. Watch this speeded up video of making a basket.  On our day courses here, it takes a new student...

Making a Willow Basket

Making a willow basket takes about five hours for a Newby. Watch this speeded up video of making a basket.  On our day courses here, it takes a new student...

Free Wild Food Foraging Walk Around a UK Farm

Part Two. Please watch Part One first HERE The second in the free, lockdown videos, this facebook live introduces you to 13 plants that were growing last July on the...

Free Wild Food Foraging Walk Around a UK Farm

Part Two. Please watch Part One first HERE The second in the free, lockdown videos, this facebook live introduces you to 13 plants that were growing last July on the...

Preserving Raw Eggs Without Electricity

Preserving Raw Eggs Without Electricity

The unveiling of the raw duck eggs, after six months at room temperature using my version of an old sailor method of preservation... Instead of slaked lime, I used calcium...

Preserving Raw Eggs Without Electricity

The unveiling of the raw duck eggs, after six months at room temperature using my version of an old sailor method of preservation... Instead of slaked lime, I used calcium...