8-Year-Old Mirabelle's First Almost-Solo Fire

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Through our homeschooling, we hope to give our girls a wide range of skills -- from math and science to wild edibles and wilderness skills. Here Mirabelle tries to get her first almost-solo fire using a punkwood method we often teach to Forest Monks.

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Video Transcription

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c'mere bye this is your first punk wood fire that you're gonna do so alright yeah with a fire steel and punk look all right what do we need first did he got here

Oh food they're not do not it's just a lesson do you think sometimes when we look where a woodpecker was check around the corner

ah Lily ated woodpeckers give us some nice stuff huh Liliana this is a weak tree see so we want to be really aware of it as we're pulling us make sure it doesn't come down see where the way it's leaning so if you go on the other side to the way it's leaning you'll be safer [Music]

give a knife on you [Music]

I would be surprised if you didn't and you can push this hip in and then try out right push the hips straight in like this dabbing nice what do you think be the tiniest bit damp not bad one more piece [Music]

now I'm gonna go gather some fungus you're just having her gather whatever she wants to use to make this fire okay been dry enough lately that that feels good

nice

sometimes nature makes art that looks suspiciously something a human would do it's beautiful that is beautiful Wow look at that green color know what causes on what suppose it doesn't Thank You Bailey yeah you found the fruiting body of that fungus that's really cool let's see if we can zoom up and yeah look at that and that same thing that makes that really cool color and the wood know what's wrong with it Rhett super spongy okay sweet and just like the Leafs with stronger so sure Sam should be like this mom Oh what no way actually just wanna let me know how there's collector doors like that is the biggest one I have ever seen buy three or four times the officer shares a family [Music]

fire safety right awesome yeah we're just doing a really little fire kind of for practice so even though there's a lot of duck here it's wet and we'll be safe the routine started put it up oh that's got your whole fire right there he farted certain your bundles gonna go in here okay so when I can make this too big you've got pencil-sized sticks but you're gonna stop there it looks like and then your pudding oh yeah bring some oak Leafs inside you know you never know what's gonna happen with fires but and you have a little piece of birch bark sister so here's your fire set oh I think it's gonna take okay can you tell us about your tinder bundle and you're gonna put your so you're creating a little Dust Bowl and that's gonna take the spark from your firesteel gonna start as like a seed almost that's gonna allow the rest to catch [Music]

Hey

you happy with it okay the 90 degree on this Laura knife has been used by so many students it doesn't work anymore does it so we don't like to use the blade but you're going to use the blade [Music]

right

wow that was cool [Music]

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whoo

well you've got it after a long long time and now we need to make that grow right just finally got her spark and she's transferred it to here to a little ball if you really jump over there see that he's making it grow nice and slow put that in there taking your time with it because that's gonna grow and grow while you're close I'd get down by fire you got plans yeah yeah you can set it in there do the rest you're blowing right inside [Music]

really down low and you won't give us much snuff and put your head on the sun-god

here

shut the skull you don't want to get this too big we need to get your wood back on top of it [Music]

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