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Here is a sample video all about Tinder for Friction Fire. It is one out of the 24 videos and two and a half hours of instruction that makes up our Bow Drill Essentials video series one of our first Roots Online Academy courses.

Check it out and enjoy!

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Fire is one of humanities oldest friends. It can cook our food, purify our water, warm our shelters, and light the darkness. Knowing how to create fire from scratch with nothing but the landscape and a knife is an amazing skill that everyone can learn.

This videos series from Roots School will teach you everything you need to know to learn bow drill, a friction fire technique used across the globe and throughout history. With over two and half hours of instruction, 24 videos in four chapters, you will learn to build conical fire, carve a bow drill kit, the proper technique to use it, as well as how to troubleshoot all the various pitfalls beginnings can make.

With over 20 years of teaching bow drill, we know what you need to know, to not just get your first coal, but to get proficient enough to make fire when you need it!

Bow Drill Essentials Chapters

1 The Kit

Introduction to the Bow Drill Kit
Spindles
Carving the Spindle
Fireboard
Carving the Fireboard
Handholds
The Bow
Strings
Knots - Half Double Fishermans and Clove Hitch

2 Fire Building-
The basics of how to go out into the forest and build a conical fire, the most efficient and all around useful fire structure.

Fire Building Site Selection and Basics
Gathering Firewood
Building the Conical Fire I
Building the Conical Fire II
Lighting the Fire

3 Using the Bow Drill

Tinder Bundles
Preparing the Sockets
Carving the Notch
Lighting the Coal and Igniting the Tinder

4 Troubleshooting Bow Drill

Troubleshooting Concepts
Troubleshooting Spindles
Troubleshooting Fireboards
Troubleshooting Handholds
Troubleshooting Technique
Troubleshooting Getting the Coal and Conclusion

This one should work!

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In this video, Amasa Fiske-White lays down how to engage with birds without negatively effecting them.

Its easy to focus on your goals and forget about your impact. But the truth is birds lives are a constant struggle to survive and as birders its up to us to prevent negative impacts on the birds we love.

In this video Amasa breaks down some ask rules to follow so the birds can stay at baseline while you observe them, or how to mitigate negative impacts with using more provocative tactics such as pishing and playback.

In this video Amasa teaches you how to use binoculars to identify more birds more accurately. From knowing the parts and what they do, to how to use them in the field, to which ones to buy for what environment, this video will help you navigate binos for birding.

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In this video Sarah shows how to identify and forage for wild leeks without damaging the patch. By talking about habitat and reproduction she shows how and why to make harvesting these delicious wild edible spring ephemeral plants sustainable.

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Join Sarah for a quick run down on morel mushroom hunting and identification. She also covers some tips on habitat and timing when hunting and foraging for these tasty fungi.

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Sarah shows you how to identify, harvest, and lactoferment Jerusalem Artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus. We will talk about foraging the edible root, aspects to look for in looking for this plant, and the one way that I like to prepare and eat them. Pickled!
This is an edible root that can be prolific, be it found as a wild plant or better yet a wildly growing cultivar that has escaped the grasp of the person who planted it.
It goes by many names; jerusalem artichoke, sunchoke, earth apple, and fartichoke to name a few.

What do you know this plant as by name?

Some people delight in these, some people get terribly gassy, and others have never tried them. Do you eat these sweet crunchy roots? How is it that you like to prepare and eat them?

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In this video Sarah breaks down three simple ways to get better at hand drill. Friction fire can be hard to get consistent results with as a beginner or intermediate and we hope this will help you close the gap. These tips are from our own experience as well as teaching countless students at the school.

Which one of these tips helps you the most?

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Part Three

In Part Three we see how Matt, Carmen, and the island are recovering from the storm, make a huge tropical feast from foraged food prepared with primitive style cooking methods, and learn how survival skills and experiences can shape our minds.

The WildLife is a passion project Sarah and I are doing completely on our own, please share the video if you like what you see. As I get better at film making, the episodes will get better too! We are trying to decide where, who, and what to cover next.

https://www.bearnotchproductions.com/
https://www.mtvictorycamp.com/
https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/
https://rootsvt.com

Part One
https://youtu.be/2hB7eDukHx0
In this Part One Sarah and Brad escape Vermont to St Croix USVI where Matt and Carmen Corridino run Caribbean Earth Skills at Mount Victory Camp. In Part 1 we meet Matt and Carmen, get to know the island, forage for almonds and sweet limes and learn about Caribbean Earth Skills.

Part Two
https://youtu.be/21HTcv5D4Hk
In Part Two we learn about the impacts of Hurricane Maria, travel into the bush to an abandoned mansion hunting for fruit, track down mature coconuts that made it through the storm, and visit the remote area Matt and Carmen lead their survival trips.

In Part Two we learn about the impacts of Hurricane Maria, travel into the bush to an abandoned mansion hunting for fruit, track down mature coconuts that made it through the storm, and visit the remote area Matt and Carmen lead their survival trips.

The WildLife is a passion project Sarah and I are doing completely on our own, please share the video if you like what you see. As I get better at film making, the episodes will get better too! We are trying to decide where, who, and what to cover next.

https://www.bearnotchproductions.com/
https://www.mtvictorycamp.com/
https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/
https://rootsvt.com

Part One
https://youtu.be/2hB7eDukHx0
In this Part One Sarah and Brad escape Vermont to St Croix USVI where Matt and Carmen Corridino run Caribbean Earth Skills at Mount Victory Camp. In Part 1 we meet Matt and Carmen, get to know the island, forage for almonds and sweet limes and learn about Caribbean Earth Skills.

Part Three

In Part Three we see how Matt, Carmen, and the island are recovering from the storm, make a huge tropical feast from foraged food prepared with primitive style cooking methods, and learn how survival skills and experiences can shape our minds.

In this episode Sarah and Brad escape Vermont to St Croix USVI where Matt and Carmen Corridino run Caribbean Earth Skills at Mount Victory Camp. In Part 1 we meet Matt and Carmen, get to know the island, forage for almonds and sweet limes and learn about Caribbean Earth Skills.

The WildLife is a passion project Sarah and I are doing completely on our own, please share the video if you like what you see. As I get better at film making, the episodes will get better too! We are trying to decide where, who, and what to cover next.

https://www.bearnotchproductions.com/
https://www.mtvictorycamp.com/
https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/
https://rootsvt.com

Part Two
https://youtu.be/21HTcv5D4Hk

In Part Two we learn about the impacts of Hurricane Maria, travel into the bush to an abandoned mansion hunting for fruit, track down mature coconuts that made it through the storm, and visit the remote area Matt and Carmen lead their survival trips.

Part Three
https://youtu.be/2pC27FWevWo

In Part Three we see how Matt, Carmen, and the island are recovering from the storm, make a huge tropical feast from foraged food prepared with primitive style cooking methods, and learn how survival skills and experiences can shape our minds.