Wearing gloves, pick young nettle tops, avoiding any with caterpillars.
Forage or purchase your chosen dye plant material, correctly identifying it and harvesting sustainably to allow for regeneration.
Cross cut a thumb thickness piece of wood to make the bow, roughly shoulder to fingertip in length.
Cut the top sixty to one hundred centimetres of a spruce or fir tree, including enough length for a handle.
Mix the dry ingredients, flour, baking powder and salt, then add the water gradually to make a dry dough.
Before you check a forecast, read the signs around you.
A handrail is any long, continuous feature you can follow to stay on course without checking a compass all the time.
Pass the working end of the rope around the pole, crossing over the standing part.
Gather small, similar sized samples of dry wood from a range of species, such as oak, ash, birch, pine, hazel, elder and willow.
Gather your tinder, kindling and dry wood fuel in advance, then light a fire that you plan to let burn out completely within five minutes of becoming established.