Our beginnings:
As a beginner, you have to fail first to learn how to succeed. We were not different in this aspect. In 2009 we went as a group of young greenhorns into the wilderness, trying to sustain for 4 days living off the land.
We wanted to give up already after the first night. Exhaustion from all-day trekking, lack of food, water and proper shelter was too redundant for our skinny young bodies to believe to keep on going for more days. Good luck with finding a perfect location enabled us to sustain. In the rest of the days, we did not only collect a lot of wild food but also learned how to live in nature and developed a passion for living off the land.
Looking for new challenges, we tested ourselves each year in more extreme situations, longer and with less gear. At the same time our skills improved, we have read a wide variety of literature, but the best knowledge came from the forest itself by experiencing on our own.
All this led us to extremes. Besides winter survivals, survivals using only a knife and other similar tests, we tried also long-term solo survivals. The first one was Miha, who, being 18 years old, went into the wild for 15-days without any food, electronic device or sleeping bag. Practically only a knife, a pot and a ferro rod. Next year it was Ziga’s turn, who in 15-days besides living off the land crossed Slovenia through its wildest part (270 km). A year after also Jurij decided and overcame a 12-days solo survival test.
In our adventures, many friends were joining us. Since 2014 we started with training courses and public presentations about wild food and bushcraft skills. We established a club that is every year more active, we organize a variety of events like intense 3-days survival courses, team-buildings or summer schools for kids. Since 2018 we are organizing also bushcraft competitions and meetings to promote connecting people with skills and knowledge about survival in nature.
Our special feature is that from our very first beginnings we had our adventures with minimal equipment and without food. Therefore we did not become only specialists in edible wild food, but we also understand which parameters are crucial when facing calamity and shortage. Like a team of 4 friends, we fulfill different disciplines and skills, either by our profession or our hobbies. A combination of our studies of forestry, biology, agronomy and wood technology fulfills well our knowledge about nature. Besides, our activities and hobbies like archery, spearfishing, researching wolves, martial arts, training javelin, climbing, caving, one-year around the world cycling, collaborations with scouts, firefighters, army and international bushcraft meetings contribute importantly to our knowledge and skills of survival in the wild.