Release your inner hunter-gatherer! This fascinating and fun event combines elements of bush craft and campcraft, including wild food identification, fire-lighting and archery. From a 3 hour introduction to a full day where you’ll even cook lunch over your own camp fire.
Release your inner hunter-gatherer! This fascinating and fun event combines elements of bush craft and campcraft, including wild food identification, fire-lighting and archery.
Half day (3 hours):
- Wild Food foray – learn how to identify common wild foods, and their habitats
- Learn to make fire without matches
- Bushtucker trial
- Bush bow archery – learn how to shoot arrows at a target to finish off the hunter-gatherer experience
Full day (10am-4pm):
A more in-depth experience. We set off on a mini expedition to collect wild food and materials needed for our camp, collect firewood and learn how to make fire without matches, prepare and cook food over a real camp fire and finally learn the ancient skill of archery, just like our ancestors.
- Collect wild food to add to lunch
- Collect materials for making fire and carving
- At our camp you will put up a shelter and learn to make fire without matches
- Once the fire is roaring lunch is prepared which you will cook over the fire
- Around lunch we have a carving and whittling session where you will make a spoon or other item.
- Bush bow archery – learn how to shoot arrows at a target to round out the hunter gatherer experience
