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I'm 15 years old and I have been interested in the outdoors for as long as I can remember. I've always been interested in wildlife and I've been catching frogs, snakes, crawfish, lizards, and bugs by hand since I could walk. As I got older my dad introduced me to live traps and I began catching opossum, rabbits, raccoons, birds and all kinds of other animals. Some I would keep as pets for a short time and then let go, some I would just release and some I would kill and eat. My dad took me hunting and fishing and helped me set traps and made it very clear that we would never kill or harm anything we weren’t going to eat unless it was a danger to us or our animals and I still live by that. I vividly remember when my dad took me in the shop and we started building a wooden live trap because that’s when I really took off. I fell in love with the assembly of the trap and making everything fit together and then setting it with a pice of fruit, waiting and coming back to a trap with a possum or rabbit inside. I don’t remember when I made my first primitive trap but snares and deadfalls were my introduction to bushcraft. When I found Dave Canterbury’s YouTube channel I decided that I was really interested in bushcraft and survival. I spent several years teaching myself through YouTube videos, books and a TON of dirt time, quiet literally. 

 Before I catch up on my bushcraft journey I need to talk about my adventure in the world of making knives. When I was around 8 years old I was introduced to welding and started making projects out of scrap metal and selling them. When I got old enough to use most of the tools in the shop I decided I wanted to make a knife, that’s where it took off. When I started, I was grinding any flat piece of steel I could find into some sort of an edge and wrapping it in duck tape or bailing twine. No harden, no temper, bad grind, it was rough but I was having fun. In the last 7 years I have come farther than I ever intended but now that I’m here I’m not slowing down. I have, and constantly am improving. I have, in the past year actually making some pretty good knives. I sell them on Instagram and at Georgia bushcraft! 

 Ok, back to bushcraft. In 2020 I had taught myself all I could without help so I started looking for a place I could gather with people like me. With the help of my dad, I found Georgia bushcraft and we attended our first gathering In 2020. I fell in love with the people, the environment, all the learning going around and everything about it. At the second gathering I went to I had the opportunity to teach my first class and had a blast doing “DIY slingshots and whistles” with the kids. 

At this point in my life I am still learning as much as possible, attending bushcraft gatherings and doing a lot of testing, reviewing and promoting of outdoor products through Instagram and YouTube. I am also still making lots of knives and selling them. 

My passion is teaching kids classes and I think we need to be focused on making sure kids have fun, learn and become more interested in what we do so that as time passes there are still young bushcrafters learning and passing on knowledge to each other. I would like to spark interest in craftsmanship and really mold the kids imagination and creativity into useful stuff that they could have a lot of fun with.