Bushcraft Blog

The team of instructors and apprentice instructors at Woodland Ways love customers on our courses to ask questions. On the one hand it shows interest and engagement, on the other,...

Phytochemicals, a word that can create an immediate barrier with how complex it sounds but its meaning is quite simple, plant chemicals. What they are and what they do to...

Practise, practise, practise. This is the golden truth to developing knowledge and skills in just about anything, but it applies particularly to learning bushcraft. We apply our understanding of the...

There are woodlands solely of yew, but it is also found as an understorey species in many woods, especially with beech or ash. It flourishes well in the south &...

Introduction In the world of bushcraft and wilderness survival, some ideas are so simple yet effective that they become very well-known throughout the world. The Super Shelter, pioneered and popularized...

Most people perhaps don’t think of crochet as a bushcraft skill, but what is bushraft if not crafting things from natural materials to turn them into something useful. I decided that...

So sang AC/DC, and so in this Blog, we will discuss the importance of illumination in the field when bushcrafting and choosing the right sort of illumination for the right...

In this blog I will be talking you through how I have made myself a walking pole. I will be using... A metal spiked tipped ferrule for walking sticks and...

In this blog I am going to explore some of the different reasons for being drawn into Bushcraft and Survival, and how those "Why" reasons change along the journey. As...

Reflections from The Red Tent As I begin to shape the Red Tent, a new art studio space nestled above the barn at Woodland Ways, I find myself thinking more...

We are often taught information which we take at face value, with this in mind I decided to put some of this to the test during a two-day rest stop...

Over the years, I've often said that bushcraft and survival are about far more than tools and techniques. It’s a way of thinking - of reading the land, anticipating change,...