Bushcraft.

Like most things, the best way to learn Bushcraft is to find someone or a group of like-minded people who are experienced and who are willing to show you how. For youth, one of the best organizations to learn Bushcraft is the Boy Scouts who have been practicing how to be prepared and survive in the natural world for generations.

The bushcraft videos presented below are listed alphabetically.

Without question, a good quality tarp is an essential part of bushcraft and camping equipment. The ability to create a shelter is one of the 3 key elements of wilderness survival and bushcraft skills (shelter, fire & water).

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Here's a short video showing one of the best methods of how to hang camp food from bears and other creatures who might want to eat it.

Filmed during a 10 day backcountry canoe trip, Jason demonstrates how he hangs his food in the back country to protect it from bears.

Here are the 7 of the Best Paracord Knots for bushcraft and wilderness skills. View them all in 90 seconds or pause and rewind them to learn them at your own pace in this paracord knots tutorial.

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A lot of bushcrafters and wilderness campers like to wear a paracord bracelet for the peace of mind that you always have an extra 50 feet of cordage on hand (should you need it). Tying your own paracord bracelet is also a great craft to do when lounging around camp.

In this second video, fighting off a flu I decide to bring Pip out with me to the Bushcraft Camp. Together we begin to build our semi-permanent shelter with what natural resources we have available to us.

I’ve wanted to build a Bushcraft Camp for the past few years. The idea is to create a wilderness camp that would include a shelter, fire pit, cooking facilities, storage/firewood area, and a bushcrafting area.

With temperatures dropping below freezing and with more and more snow falling, I continue to build the Bushcraft Camp with a focus on building the walls of the camp shelter.

More and more snow has been falling, and with the wind blowing it around its a losing battle keeping it out of the shelter.
It’s Christmas day and despite the heavy snow hitting the area I decide to focus on building the front of the camp shelter.

The winter temperatures have been dropping, so I decide to focus on building a camp fire reflector. Fire reflectors can be built from most natural materials, especially in winter when wood is generally damp, frozen and snow covered. The purpose of a fire reflector is to radiate the heat from the campfire back towards the bushcraft shelter.

It’s early January and one of the coldest days so far this year. The last time I was out at camp I built a fire reflector but I realized that I haven’t really demonstrated how to build a campfire by sourcing out all of the materials from the area.

It’s mid January and after a quick thaw during the week temperatures have returned to below freezing again. The last couple times I was out at camp I built a fire reflector and focused on the campfire. I decided to spend some time sorting out a simple camp cooking set up so I could get water boiling and then maintain warm water around camp.

It’s February. The last couple times I was out at camp I was focused on campfire and getting things ready around camp. Despite being -6 C during the day and below -10C at night I travel to do a Solo Winter Overnight Bushcraft camp.

After days of work out at camp I realize that I could be doing things a bit better and be more efficient if I took the time to build some basic tools. A sawhorse can be built from most natural materials. The purpose of a sawhorse is to hold a piece of timber in place, at a comfortable working height. They make processing wood a lot easier - better than being bent over.

The last time I was out to the camp I build a basic sawhorse to help me be more efficient with work. With a lot of woodcraft projects planned I decided to get started.

With temperatures above freezing, I headed out to continue building the Bushcraft Basecamp. Working on building a shaving horse, boiling some maple sap and also have a guest visit out at camp for a steak dinner.

It was the last week of winter and I decided to spend one more night out at the bushcraft basecamp. Day time temperature was sitting around the freezing mark and overnight it would get down to -8 degrees. As we were approaching spring, there was a lot more wildlife activity going on in this part of Canadian wilderness and at night the bush would come to life with the sound of creatures sneaking around just outside of camp.

It was a couple weeks since I had been out to the Bushcraft Camp and I was looking forward to getting out to do some camp improvements. Like it often does in early April, winter seemed to have returned and brought along a fresh 10 cm of snow.

In addition to making some camp improvements, I was also planning to try a new method for cooking bannock (or damper) on the campfire.

Its been a few weeks since I had been out to the Bushcraft Basecamp and I was looking forward to getting out to see what it looked like now that spring was here. Like every spring here in the Ontario bush, the black flies were buzzing.

On this day I wanted to finish off my shaving horse, try out my new carving knife and cook up some campfire fajitas.