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Food from the Fire

Every campfire recipe and cooking method: fires for cooking, pot hangers and ovens, utensils to carve, breads and pancakes, wild food recipes and wild drinks.

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🃏 Includes a printable card set: every Wilding activity guide as an A6 card (four to an A4 sheet) to spread out, plan with or use for a lucky dip. See a sample

See the whole collection at once. Plan a programme, pick tonight’s activity, or let the lucky dip choose for you. Tap any card to open its Wilding activity guide.

Positioning a fire

Which wood?

Making a feather stick fire lighter

Laying & using a criss-cross fire

Laying & using a long log fire

Laying & using a star fire

Fire tending

Closing down a fire

Cooking in the embers

Cooking on a hot rock

Making & cooking with a skewer

Making & cooking with a cleft stick frame

Making a plank & cooking on it

Making & using a campfire grill

Making & using a ground oven

Making & using a tripod

Making & using a pot hook

Making & using a simple pot hanger

Making & using an adjustable pot hanging system

Cooking on & caring for a griddle

Using a cast iron camp oven

Seasoning cast iron pans & ovens

Making a wooden spoon

Making a spatula

Making tongs

Making a whisk

Making a butter spreader

Making a chopping board

Making Scotch pancakes

Making a nettle burger

Making wild pesto

Making a wild salad

Cooking burdock & dandelion roots

Making wild flour

Preparing acorns for consumption

Making a seed & nut bar

Making a fruit leather

Making dandelion syrup

Making elderflower cordial

Using edible tree sap

Making wild tea

Wild tea tasting

Making a coffee substitute

Safety, and where the Wilding activity guides come from

Look after yourself and others. Outdoor activities carry real risks: fire, tools, water, weather, heights, plants, fungi, animals and getting lost. Every Wilding activity guide includes safety notes, but you are responsible for your own safety and for anyone in your care. Supervise children closely, get the landowner's permission, follow the Countryside Code, never eat anything you cannot identify with complete certainty, and only light fires where it is allowed and safe. If in doubt, leave it out.

With gratitude to the lineage. Wilding and its Practice Keys are inspired by the work of Jon Young and colleagues: the core routines of nature connection in the 8 Shields approach, also known as Coyote Mentoring, shared in Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature (Young, Haas & McGown). Many of the Wilding activity guides grew from those routines.

These ways of noticing and belonging are far older than any book. They grow from the knowledge of Indigenous and land-based peoples around the world, who have lived in close relationship with the land for thousands of years and have kept that knowledge alive, often in the face of great loss. Jon Young describes 8 Shields as built on patterns of nature connection he found in Indigenous cultures around the world, and on what his mentors taught him, including the teachings passed down through Tom Brown Jr. from Grandfather Stalking Wolf. Our own ancestors in these islands once knew the land in this way too.

I offer Wilding with deep respect and thanks to all of them. It does not claim or copy any culture's ceremonies or sacred practices. It is a UK way of carrying forward simple, shared human ways of paying attention, giving thanks and belonging to a place. — Jay