Woodcraft and Outdoor Self-Reliance

woodcraft
[wood-kraft, -krahft]
noun
1. skill in anything that pertains to the woods or forest, especially
in making one’s way through the woods or in hunting, trapping, etc.

 “To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.” – HORACE KEPHART, Camping and Woodcraft, 1917

• Indebtedness: The #1 Soft Skill Missing in the Self-Reliance Community

• My Top 4 Most Useful Basecamp Builds

• How to Make an Appalachian Berry Bucket from Tree Bark

• Emergency Fire Kits: Can a Five-Year-Old Use It?

• Primitive vs. Modern: The Importance of Keeping Skills in Context

• School of the Woods: Turning My Classroom Inside Out

• Friction Fire Hack: Get Consistent Coals Using a Hand Drill

• Backcountry Belt Kit: Essential Tools to Carry Around Your Waist

• Primitive Preps: Craft a 3-in-1 Tool from One Hand Drill Spindle

• Primitive Fire Balls: How to Make a Waterproof Natural Tinder Bundle

• How to Straighten, Haft, and Fletch River Cane Atlatl Darts

• Ancient Atlatls: How to Make a Down-N-Dirty Spear-Thrower

• How to Harvest, Prepare, and Use Yellow Dock Root Medicinally

• Wilderness Survival: 3 Core Skills to Keep Your Child Alive

• Campfire Cooking: Grill, Cook, and Bake on One Fire Pit

• Off-Grid Winch: Incredible Power from Two Logs and a Rope

• Saving Judgement: Three Guys Go to the Woods

• A Beginner’s Guide to Avoiding Bloated Bushcraft

• Camp Craft Challenge: The One Billet Boil Up

• How to Bushcraft a Hollow Log Crawfish Trap

• Hunt-Gather-Eat: Identifying Plants the Real Food Eats

• Spring Camping: 4 Keys to Avoid Unexpected Hypothermia

• How to Make a River Cane Fish Trap

• River Cane: 25 Self-Reliant Uses for “Cherokee Plastic”

• Knowledge vs. Knowing: 37 Woodlore Lessons

• How to Carve 7 Pot Hooks for Classic Camp Cooking

• How Cherokees Used Trees of Southern Appalachia for Food, Medicine, and Craft

• Knowledge vs. Knowing: 37 Woodlore Lessons

• How to Carve 7 Pot Hooks for Classic Camp Cooking

• How to Build a Carving Bench from a Log (Rope Vise Plans Included)

• The Number One Knife Skill for Wilderness Survival and Self-Reliance

• 4 Easy Ways to Estimate Height in the Woods

• How to Estimate Distance in the Woods with Right Triangles

• 27 Basecamp Projects Guaranteed to Elevate Skills and Fun in the Woods

• A Glorified Shaving Horse: How to Build a Paring Ladder in the Woods

• How to Handcraft a Custom Ax Handle from a Tree

•  7 Secrets for Burning Sticks in the Rain

• 3 Skills that Cover a Multitude of Survival Sins

• Learn These 2 Pioneer Skills to Produce Almost Anything

• How to Improvise and Use a Three Stick Roycroft Pack Frame

• How to Make a Pocket Tonteldoos (Tinderbox) for Flint and Steel Fires

• An Emergency Slush Lamp Hack Using a Torch Plant Leaf

• 39 Manly Uses for Coconut Oil in Your Bushcraft Kit

• How to Build 4 Down-N-Dirty Campfires

• The Number One Skill of a Good Woodsman

• Stalking: The Lost Art of Getting Close to Wild Animals

• Hunger Games: Find this Wild Food and You’ll Never Starve

• Best Practices for Your Third Most Critical Survival Priority

• The Beginner’s Step by Step Guide to Bow Drill Fire Craft

• Makin’ Bacon: How to Dry Cure Pork Belly

• 9 Ways (Some Illegal) to Catch Fish for Self-Reliance and Survival

• How to Make an Arrow Quiver from Tree Bark

• Gnawing Solutions to Self-Reliance: 18 Beaver Habitat Resources

• How to Build a Sturdy Sawbuck with Logs and Rope

• Making Containers via Primitive Process Pottery

• Cutting to the Chase When Choosing an Ax for Self-Reliance

• Cocoa: The 11th C of Survivability

• How to Make Primitive Hot Glue Sticks

• Camp Craft: How to Tie Square Lashing

• Be Anti-Fragile: Prepare Modern but Practice Primitive

• 16 Uses of Sticky Pine Sap for Wilderness Survival and Self-Reliance

• 5 Steps to Become the Smartest Person in the Woods

• The Burning Secret of Flint and Steel Fire

• Make a Stump Vise for “Smoothing It” Camp Projects

• Ax-Manship: Tips for Splitting Long Logs for Firewood

• Spoon Carving with an Ax

• 4 Essential Ax Skills for Self-Reliance

• When Primitive Skills and Prepping Have Sex

• Top 31 Uses for “Killer” Cotton in Core Temperature Control

• The Single Best Piece of Survival Gear for Emergency Core Temperature Control

• 5 Tips to Cure Nature Deficit Disorder in Your Child

• The 4 W’s of Wilderness Campsite Selection

• Finally! A Fire Piston That’s Bomb-Proof

• The One Stick Fire Challenge

• The Top 8 Reasons You Need a Possum Mentality to Survive What’s Coming

• InstaFire: Lights in Wind, Rain, Snow, and on Water!

• Passing Down Self-Reliance Skills to My Seven Year Old Grandson

• 5 Must-Have Survival Kit Items That Won’t Require a Mule for Conveyance

• Pondering Poison Ivy Remedies and Itch Relief

• 31 Ways to Help Kids Trade Screens for Streams

• A Swiss Army Bread Bag as a Common Man’s Haversack

• A Simple Fixin’ Wax Recipe for Fixin’ Stuff

• How to Build a Bushcraft Tripod for Your Outdoor Kitchen

• 100% Wool Army Blanket = Awesome Hunting Shirt

• A Waterproof Fire Starter Hack that Guarantees Fire

• A Well-Hung Ax: The Woodsman’s Secret

• Uncle Otha’s Fat Lighter’d Torch

• Blowing The Lid Off Char Containers

• An Easy Char Cloth Tutorial 

• Survival Sling Shot with Big Game Capabilities

• Deconstructing My Survival Slingshot

• The Woodsman’s Secret to a Well-Hung Ax

• How-To Make Ranger Pace Count Beads

• A Bomb Proof Modification for the Pathfinder Cook Set

• Turn a Cigar Sleeve into a Survival Fishing Kit

• A Brilliant Bearing Block for a Bow Drill Fire Set

• Skills: A Gear Weight-Loss Program

• A Curiously Strong One-Stop-Shop for Natural Fire Tinder

• Think Outside the Tent for Shelter

• The Size of Your Ferro Rod Matters – Go Big!

• Friction Fire: The Art of Rubbing Sticks Together

• The Art of ‘Smoothing It’ in Struggleville

• Sharp Sherpa Tip: Processing Wood Safely with Your Ax

• 7 Tips to Keep You Alive and Found in the Wilderness

• Sherpa Gear Review: The Idiot Proof Emberlit-UL Stove

• The Science of Fire

• Finding Direction at Night Using the North Star

• Maintaining a Straight Course in the Wilderness

• Down and Dirty DIY: Fletching Arrows with Duct Tape