Cowberry Jelly and Sea Buckthorn leather

Cowberries can be used to preserve other fruit by putting in cold water and can be left for a few months. See Ray Mears, Wild Britain

Natural preservative found in berries which also make good jam.

Sea Buckthorn has a natural setting agent which means it can be broken up then left and naturally sets into a fruit leather.

Fruit Leather First Attempt (pic heavy)

Sea buckthorn fruit leather with pickled rose hips

Copenhagen | Laissez Fare- great food website, fancy

Talcum Powder: wind direction finder

Talcum power can be carried in a small squirty container to tell the direction of wind for tracking purposes.

Shown here in ray mear's wild Britain

Swedish Log Torch/Stove

A way of keeping your fire burning from a log for excess of 2 hours using just one log cut into quarters which draws air into the centre of the log.

If you don't have a chainsaw handy then this video shows how to do it with an axe.

Swedish Fire Torch - YouTube

Reed Pith-fire tinder and candle wick

The inner pith from reeds can be stripped out and used:

-Tinder fire lighting- foamy material takes up a spark well by collecting it into small bundle then spark with strike alight.

-Wicks for candles by being dipped in bees wax, tree resin or used as a wick for oil lamps